[Steve Kinney]

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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.


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