Somewhere on my shelves or in the crypt I have an old Buck Rogers comic in which Buck and friends visit a planet which has undergone a collapse. There is an enormous amount of junk around, but no one to use it for any purpose, good or bad.
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] End-game > Ed Weick wrote: > > > There's an article in the June edition of Haper's in which Jared Diamond > > argues that societies tend to collapse shortly after they reach their > > peak in wealth and power because of the enormous stress they put on > > their environmental resources. He uses the Maya, perhaps not the best > > example, to make his case. I don't know if we are now moving into an > > end-game, but I find our enormous dependence on a finite environmental > > resource, hydrocarbon energy, frightening. It does not seem to have hit > > home that this resource must run out. > [snip] > > Well, one day it will be too late, and that > day may have passed already.... > > But if it hasn't, one of the things which > appeals to me about reducing the world > human population by means that do not hurt the currently > living (the right to post-natal life, etc.), is that > fewer people need fewer resources, and, if they > get to be few enough, they can even pollute and > get away with it. > > But, beyond that, we have a capital base that > was made to sustain several billion people. > If the population reduced, we would > thereby increase the assets per person, > which could have lots of benefits, > such as culling to keep only the best, and > using some of the rest for spare parts. > And this without any labor marginal expenditure. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
