Date sent: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:16:08 +1200 From: Nick FitzGerald <[email protected]>
> 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, technically this'd probably be more like "giving Darwin a leg up." So, famine this time. (Pestilence, when the waters start to recede ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] You're beautiful and make $10,000 a day. So why do you look so pissed off? - Whoopi Goldberg to fashion models http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
