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Post by prairiegarden on Aug 23, 2016 8:55:03 GMT -5
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 23, 2016 9:54:29 GMT -5
www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth?language=en Something that nobody is considering is the chance that one or more of the kids growing up in the refugee camps - some of them third generation now - with no present and no foreseeable future worth living may get hold of some biological or atomic weapon. Or figure out how to take down a few crucial satellites. There are obviously a number of them who have learned to place no value on their own life beyond how many people they take with them when they die. If that happens then birth control would likely be even more of a non starter in a conversation than it is now. A textbook example of Tibbles Law, "As technology increases, the amount of damage capable of being inflicted by a single individual goes up, and the number of people necessary to inflict a given amount of damage goes down." As progress marches forward, the day will soon come where all it will take is one single whacko to completely destroy the whole world instantly with one act. |
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Post by steev on Aug 23, 2016 10:36:29 GMT -5
George Carlin, my role model, master of lack of irrational optimism.
To quote a master of fore-telling the future, Tom Lehrer, "We'll all go together, when we go"; but in the meantime, "Give me smut, and nothing but!", ibid.
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