ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, he missed the part about 1/55 kids with autism, amphibians > disappearing, starfish melting, birds dropping from the sky, trees > disappearing, reactors melting down, reefs bleaching, Earth warming, > Alzheimer's and > some cancers increasing. . . .
I think he did a pretty good job describing potential problems, especially the population explosion. He nailed the present population pretty closely. In his other work, Asimov often pointed out the dangers of pollution and overpopulation. I do not think there has been an actual increase in autism. More cases are being diagnosed. I think some are not real. Alzheimer's and cancer is increasing mainly because there is no cure for them and the population is aging. People have to die of something. If you reduce heart disease and people live longer cancer will increase. If cancer and Alzheimer's are eliminated, some other old-age disease will become more prevalent. - Jed
