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Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
Nor, imo, would the average comet or asteroid even fully eliminate mankind. Set us back a few centuries or maybe even millennium, but that's about it.
At most. I've had a few discussions with various people about how our doing this or that is liable to lead to killing ourselves off, and I've had to point out that it would be _hard_ to kill off humanity as a species. After all, our primary trait is adaptability. It would be relatively easy (a large comet or asteroid impact would do it) to disrupt approximately all current human societies and kill off a large fraction of humanity - some immediately and directly, a whole lot more as supply chains break down and, eg, cities starve - but it's a self-limiting process; as the human population (and demand for food) crashes, there will emerge plenty of places where hunter/gatherer and subsistence farming become practical. And once they start to recolonize the rest of the globe, they'll find abandoned technology available, which should greatly speed the rebuilding of the knowledge behind that technology - the knwoledge that something can be done is often one of the most important ingredients for figuring out how to do it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents-montreal org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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