Re: Cold, hard facts defy the doomsayers

"Alastair McDonald" <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in news:dudsog$n1q$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Pretty depressed. I am sure we are past the point of no return,

If there is any significance to the data we're seeing then it is
quite possibly true. OTOH nature seems to have a way of surprising
us.

and
most people still don't seem to realise there is a problem.

Even among those who undertstand to varying degrees there is
strong disagreement.

But then
I suppose no-one loves a doom merchant, especially if they are right :-(

Bad news is never welcomed, right or wrong.

The worse problem is overpopulation. Global warming will tend to
blunt that rather a lot should that be in our future. But you
should also look to chaos for another variable which is known
as "die-off."

google "die-off" 2,480,000 hits

It is one of those things you can count on coming along every now
and then. Black Plague and the 1918 influenza each took a huge toll
on the world population.

H5N1 might make a significant difference in the future of the earth.
If we beat that then there's another even worse one just around the
corner. Some nuclear activity by militant Islam is eventually bound
to, if the population keeps growing and societal pressures keep
mounting. Other unknown unanticipated factors will also doubtless
come into play, it is only a matter of time.

And then there's space colonization.

Chin up, don't be so glum. You and I can't make enough of a difference
anyway so as the song recommends, "If that's all there is, then let's
keep dancing....." Let the future solve itself, it always has before
and there's no reason to think it won't this time.

(Likely George is having a hissy fit reading this.:-) But he simply
"doesn't get" the math; that's something that can never be beat. He's
some sort of a control freak who believes his hands on approaches
solve everything, especially things that don't actually have managable
solutions but will solve themselves.)


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