I agree with JM on this, because it appears that the higher the quality of life, the tendency is for selecting reduced family sizes. But turning away from technology and somehow using it sustainably, would, I believe wind up with a redistribution of wealth, just using the tech we have now, and siphoning it away from the poor to the middle serfs and the rich. Its wiser to use better technology and make it attractive (cheaper) for everyone to use. It would reduce effluence, and make people's lives better.
-----Original Message----- From: Jesse Mazer <laserma...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 11:49 am Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> wrote: Spud, But reducing human overpopulation IS the main problem facing the planet, the ecosystem, and the human species itself. Assuming that increasing technology will somehow solve the problem is, I fear, naive. It is precisely the use of more and more powerful technology that has resulted in the exponential destruction of the environment by the exponentially increasing number of humans. So it's not better technology we need, but the wisdom to use it sustainably.... Edgar Most demographers project that the population will level off at around 10 billion, because of various trends that tend to reduce the number of children like populations becoming more urban and women being more educated--see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Projections for some info. Of course predicting human behavior is never purely scientific and there are some who think this projection is too optimistic, see http://e360.yale.edu/feature/what_if_experts_are_wrong_on_world_population_growth/2444/ Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
