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From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 10:04 PM 4/21/00 -0400, david wrote:
> >Over population is junk science.
>
> Sorry, can't let this one go. Over population is physics,
> its why evolution works, its the sigmoid curve, its dying in
> your own pollution. You may argue about the nicest set-points,
> whether any given country is there or not, but exponential growth is a
> fundamental problem.
Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not
interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred
years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion
people, and there's room for much more than that *without* leaving the
Earth. There's no way we could make 1,000 billion people in the next hundred
years. QED.
Read some Julian Simon. (BTW, if you look at the decaying ratio between the
prices of commodities and real salaries from the other side, it means that
the average price of labor *raises* compared to the price of commodities, so
we have an *under*supply of labor; underpopulation, not overpopulation, is
the problem. Yes, the Eastern world is not there yet, but their problem is
lack of private property and free trade, not overpopulation. All humans have
an infinite number of wants, not only those in the western countries.)
Mark
