-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/2016 07:02 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
Population crash is only true for the populations that cannot conceive of shared abundance. We've gone from 95% of the population working on farms to less than 1%, and with the right tools, 5% of the population with a little AI and distributed production tools is more than sufficent to feed, fuel, and house the rest.
That, however, doesn't help those who won't eat because they believe, ever so fervently, in the doom of humanity. Which is fine, we just have to wait them out and contain the damage, possibly by sticking them in a simulation of their chosen rapture. Who knows, maybe that will be the source of organ donors in the next millenium.
If you insist on being slaughtered, who am I to stop you from walking into the blender. But I will politely point out the clearly labeled door number two if you can stop to see it.
Hmmm... so, a technocratic elite won't be affected, other than perhaps to the extent of minor inconveniences, when the exponential growth of industrialization, resource extraction and human population exceeds geophysical limits? And this, because those limits are not real and the only people who will be adversely affected are those who have incorrect beliefs? That sounds almost like the narrative of commercialized Conspiracy Theory, from a viewpoint that identifies with the "bad guys" in that scenario. The "good vs. evil" issue really is just a matter of human beliefs, but the laws o' physics part is what most interests me. Topsoil, water, phosphates and fuel can't be wished into existence, nor can industrial pollution, extreme weather and a couple of billion hungry neighbors be wished out of existence. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJW0E8+AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0L3ekP/iu3gBR3P1H3K/m4iYLwSotd bRqB7xjnYNWOUz3oJAJBwFKAg0eKKXN0smcv+mQFrQdBdpsZwWFT8vllCWxWcbL4 J4YoNpT0AuDPalBTKTOn0Lgqhdp+Czai2K225wsezREYyhPxs91GSnPBH1bMpILH mfFTI/tj2XBRGV+txvRGIhDykmC0erWxfIwiljtQw+Mctg4s6keCe9qH+GwHPRiY md7E7YoNBSXKYZFWQhqKvse7f35vpjGKqbeIVlhEPllb4V5nwwPjBv3G56Y9Iifb Cff+aOybKCUqLbMUE2H8HiGzMecsXyaogz6WTmCZ720pYBdUGkL2eEU1FLNs454D QiafBux9ZZzw0E8JTP55cqUsLuf5DT9RMcWdUJ47pzl7wrqdIunp4bj8XbiKW7+C eKWpOe4rn85ShXeeZq+4nldQ6V1Il70lxLRNBNabdy4YbK6OJDKVaw8v3JJ64uJ6 FhBC+002NkkSsEOnvdcROhcP91xNx96q+RkGljpWsO/P0TRK1X0r6TNyb4qSIWUI YGrQLFlwE5vlx1EUhJzTASTL7PY8rdfm4SlhSCQkFHUfY0iKRm0jmWFy8NCcCcb9 r9XYj2Hebum2WIpYUEx7mL+59yy7hkaoemFXhyqTXsoWvLt7cR1xJKPKeYazZ97e hkER5XN2xG+cDspNdHFV =unpu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----