"Bill M" <wmech@bellsouth.net> writes:

The basic solution is lowering the world wide birth rate. Modern
medicine makes this totally attainable provided we don't permit the
religious fanatics to prevent the use of modern birth control and
reduction.

The problem is that if you lower the birth rate, you also
lower the productivity of the remaining population. There's this
thing called economies of scale. If we cut our population to 10% of
its current rate, we would not have enough people to sustain the
standard of living of even the lower middle class.

There's an alternative solution: find ways of generating
energy that aren't as nasty or self-defeating as carbon-based power.

Elf

"Bill M" <w...@bellsouth.net> writes:

The basic solution is lowering the world wide birth rate. Modern
medicine makes this totally attainable provided we don't permit the
religious fanatics to prevent the use of modern birth control and
reduction.

The problem is that if you lower the birth rate, you also
lower the productivity of the remaining population. There's this
thing called economies of scale. If we cut our population to 10% of
its current rate, we would not have enough people to sustain the
standard of living of even the lower middle class.

There's an alternative solution: find ways of generating
energy that aren't as nasty or self-defeating as carbon-based power.

Elf

"Bill M" <wmech@bellsouth.net> writes:

The basic solution is lowering the world wide birth rate. Modern
medicine makes this totally attainable provided we don't permit the
religious fanatics to prevent the use of modern birth control and
reduction.

The problem is that if you lower the birth rate, you also
lower the productivity of the remaining population. There's this
thing called economies of scale.

If we cut our population to 10% of
its current rate, we would not have enough people to sustain the
standard of living of even the lower middle class.

There's an alternative solution: find ways of generating
energy that aren't as nasty or self-defeating as carbon-based power.

"Bill M" <w...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message

news:BbdVh.832$np4.654@bignews4.bellsouth.net...

We keep hearing campaigns to end global warming, reduce air, water and
soil pollution; rapidly declining ocean stocks of fish; the poverty and
the deaths of millions of children due to malnutrition and starvation.

That's only because atheists in government make us convert food stock
into fuel for our cars, instead of feeding those starving children.

On Apr 17, 7:05 pm, "Bill M" <w...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

We keep hearing campaigns to end global warming, reduce air, water and soil
pollution; rapidly declining ocean stocks of fish; the poverty and the
deaths of millions of children due to malnutrition and starvation. The cost
of power, oil, coal, copper and other resources is rapidly escalating

Most of this drive is attacking the results and ignoring the cause. It's the
old problem of attacking the messenger instead dealing with the message.

The real cause of these problems is world wide over population and
increasing consumption of resources.

The basic solution is lowering the world wide birth rate. Modern medicine
makes this totally attainable provided we don't permit the religious
fanatics to prevent the use of modern birth control and reduction.

Definitely one approach. The other is developing controlled nuclear
fusion, which would make colonization of other planets a practical
possiblity.