Global Warming

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 08:29 AM Tuesday 4/29/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
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>> 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.
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> There's a vast difference between people dying despite everything 
> possible at the time being done to save them and some people 
> channeling E. Scrooge and saying that it would be A Good Thing for 
> other folks to die and "reduce the surplus population."  Or does 
> IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing other people 
> under the wheels in order to save themselves?
>   
I don't recognize the acronym you used, but in any case I was talking in 
terms of restricting reproduction, not practicing euthanasia. If we 
leave it to the Four Horsemen, I am certain the worst of it will fall on 
those populations that are poor, and that will hardly look any better. 
It will take more than just population control, I suspect, but ignoring 
root causes is no way to solve the problem.

Regards,

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Kevin B. O'Brien         TANSTAAFL
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