[Rhodes22-list] An inconvenient reality.

[Geankoplis]

Gee Elle,
	Would you have a few fava beans to go along with that solution, oh
yes, and some nice Chianti?
Chris


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Brad, Rummy, Rik and all

Jonathan Swift in 1729 may have hit upon the perfect
solution:

A Modest Proposal
 
For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland
>From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and
For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
 
By Jonathan Swift (1729)


elle




--- Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Brad, Rummy and all
> 
> I'm gonna' stick a theory in here just for the heck
> of it.
> 
> To every thing there is a season.......
> 
> Rabbit populations run in cycles, 'round here ruffed
> grouse too is an 
> obvious one. I expect most other species of animal
> are the same. They 
> increase in number in an area 'til there is not
> enough food/resources to 
> support them anymore ....... then they either leave,
> or die. after a 
> time the food comes back and eventually the
> population starts to rise 
> again, starting the cycle all over again.
> 
> Back in the sixties I used to hear people talking
> about population 
> control all the time. Now, you rarely hear it
> brought up. The human 
> population on our planet surpassed 6,000,000,000
> this last winter Yeah, 
> billion with a B. 9,000,000,000 isn't that far off.
> 
> I don't believe this planet was meant to support 6
> billion people for 
> any length of time ..... let alone 9.
> 
> So, distasteful as it may be to some, unless we
> figure out a way to have 
> a smaller population, we are likely to go the way of
> the rabbit and the 
> grouse.
> 
> Maybe we ought to be looking at the real root of our
> problems.
> 
> food for thought
> Rik
> 
> Brad Haslett wrote:
> > Rummy,
> >
> > This sort of thing has been happening for eons. 
> If a scientist from
> > mainstream academia points this out he/she will be
> booed off the lectern
> > because it doesn't fit into the current funding
> stream.  It may have
> > happened due to global warming, or not.  Global
> warming may be real, or
> > not.  If it is real, it may be caused by man or
> nature. It could be a
> > natural cycle (remember the Ice Age?). The whole
> issue is so clouded 
> > by the
> > political climate that rational discussion of the
> subject is difficult if
> > not impossible.  The bulk of the 'scientists' are
> of the same 
> > political ilk
> > and are hardly objective.
> >
> > Let's assume global warming is real, and the cause
> is mankind.  What 
> > to do?
> > Maybe we can just let the radical Muslims have
> their way and move the 
> > whole
> > planet back to the 7th century.  There's always
> the issue of donkey 
> > gas to
> > deal with but maybe it is easier to handle than
> the 5.9 liter engine 
> > in my
> > Dodge pickup.  I dunno, and neither do these
> "experts".
> >
> > Perhaps I've hung around educated idiots too much.
>  I'd be a lot more
> > impressed if they could pour piss out of a boot
> without reading the
> > instructions printed on the heel.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > On 12/29/06, R22RumRunner at aol.com
> <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> _http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16390346/_
> >> (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16390346/)
> >>
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