On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: [...] > The longer we put it off, the worse it will be when it does come. > Perhaps central Africa and the middle east have it right, get it > done now and avoid the rush. > > "Civil World War", I like that term, unfortunately.
I strongly oppose the idea of war (civil or not) as way of problem solving. And it is a good testament to human inborn stupidity that problems cannot be solved in other ways, apparently. But it will not happen for a very different reason. Simply put, wars wreck ecosystems and after this next one, no more ecosystems anymore. So, instead a virus will be unleashed. I guess that 1/3 of global population may be gone without much repercussion other than bad memories (and witnessing from the side, I can tell you how long those memories will last: chew a gum, spit it, gone). Perhaps 2/3 might be doable with enough smart automation already running. Forget about preppers. They are going to bite the sand as everybody else. What they have in central Africa and Middle East is, I am afraid, a civilisation cancer. If I were cancer, I would say they are doing it right. But I will only say, it is metastasing and whoever thinks that he can easily control it is in huge error. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
