On 14 Oct 2009, at 13:44, Bruce Napier wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2009, at 12:46, Mack, David wrote: > >> Not much sign of that historically on a global basis, although it is >> bound to happen locally from time to time. > > I wasn't just referring to H sapiens. Any massive increase in the > population of a species is likely to contain the seeds of its own > crash, from resource shortage of one sort or another, usually. > > I guess I'd predict a series of local collapses due to water or food > shortage, with the concomitant risk of resource wars escalating > eventually to a nuclear exchange, at which point we can stop worrying > about global warming...
Ah, that confirms the reasoning behind not naming the Napier boats Optimism and New Optimism. Is your water shortage scenario referenced in BW's 2009/10 stoppage season announcements ? Beeky
