Global Warming

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

jon louis mann wrote:
> what I find offensive is the implication I often get from members of
> the environmental movement that accomplishing their goals requires some
> sort of eugenics, with statements like some of them have made like "the
> carrying capacity of the Earth with people practicing a 
> sustainable lifestyle is at most something like half a billion people."
>  And not just because certainly I and everyone else who has any sort of
> health problems or otherwise are not in perfect health and physical
> shape will be among the 90%+ who will find themselves 
> considered part of the "surplus population" under such circumstances. .
> . 
> . . . ronn!  :)
>
> i doubt that there are many environmentalists who actually advocate
> drastic measures to attain sustainability.  i think balance will be
> achieved either through technology, or through collapse.
> jon
>   
I think that it is clear that nature will restore a balance if 
necessary. If we are indeed over-populated (and I suspect that is the 
case), the balance will be restored through the 4 Horsemen of the 
Apocalypse, in some kind of combination. Whether Ronn will find that 
less offensive I cannot say.

Regards,

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