A few years ago in New Zealand the Dalai Lama was speaking about sustainability. He was asked about overpopulation and responded with his usual twinkling smile, that yes, it was a problem. He then added that the world would benefit if a greater percentage of humans were priests, nuns, gays and lesbians. :-)
Obviously a shrinking pie (earth's resources are NOT increasing; entropy is)divided into 250000 additional slices daily = fewer per capita gold watches, as well as less health care, water, good nutrition, etc Cheers, Steve Brad: "one of the Dalai Lama's most prized possessions is a gold Patek-Philippe watch FDR gave to him -- if the Dalai Lama can have something better than a Timex, why not *Everyman*?)" -- http://magma.ca/~gpco/ http://www.scientists4pr.org/ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.�Kenneth Boulding
