Re: Rage against spammers and telemarketers

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Rob Slade to Me:

> > You don't think that the massive sea-level rise now almost certain to 
> > happen by mid-3/4 century, wiping out the mostly coastal and river 
> > deltas that currently house approximately 80% of the planet's human 
> > inhabitants and an even greater proportion of its readily arable land 
> > (and this is ignoring ongoing urbanization in the already most heavily 
> > over-populated areas), doesn't technically count as a "flood"?
>
> Since the only ones to drown would have to be willing to sit for a few months 
> while the water rose over them, ...

I'm not aware of any sensible definition of "flood" that requires there 
be any drownings...

> ... technically this'd probably be more like "giving 
> Darwin a leg up."

Indeed -- a catastrophically accelerated leg up at that...

> So, famine this time.  (Pestilence, when the waters start to recede ...)

And you don't think that that level of relatively sudden, _massive_ 
famine wouldn't lead to at least disease and death?

And, given our hostory, almost certainly war?

Don't forget that the world's population will roughly double in the 
lead-up to this, mainly among the deeply ignorant (due to grossly 
inadequate education which will only worsen due to the increased 
population pressure) and mainly in the more loony religious parts of 
the world (parts of the ME and SE Asia and much of South America).

No-one is taking vaguely appropriate measures against any of this, let 
alone such measures on anything like the scale necessary to avert such 
problems...



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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