Subject: **population/energy:hidden facts#1

From: [email-masked] (Pieter Claassen)
Date: 25 May 1995 13:27:15 GMT

It is ironic to notice (especially me here in the third world) that all 
primary attemts go towards education.
Then the more advanced people thy to find solutions for the energy 
crisis.

All these efforts are inspired by politicians who control the money and 
have to be re-elected every few years.
We have a major problem. TO MANY PEOPLE.

TO MANY PEOPLE!

We have to face up to the fact that no amount of eduction will solve the 
problem because we have already exceded the critical mass (especailly in 
my hometown). I am not into selective culling, so how will we solve this 
problem?

Politicians are only interested in re-election and black suits. They will 
puncture condoms if it will get them re-elected.

I suggest that we sterilize a % of people at birth (I think a cold way of 
looking at it is random sterilization because no one can kill Steven H). 
We cannot depend on politicians to do this because it will not be the 
popular thing to do.

I am sorry that our forefathers have allowed things to get so out of 
hand, but we have no choice.

Imagine what it was like when there was a few million people around?

Where does renewable energy come in? Do you realise that if we are so few 
people, virtually all energy sources will become renewable.

Ask the dodo what he thinks of this!
P

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From: Ian Carr-de Avelon <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 May 1995 08:31:55 GMT

> We cannot depend on politicians to do this because it will not be the 

I think that sterilization should be on a voluntary basis. I
suggest that you set us all an example, two house bricks and a
bucket of bleach should be cheap and environmentally friendly
|-0).

> Ask the dodo what he thinks of this!
Do you think that the dodo would have been saved by steriliz-
ation?

You are mixing up an unsuccessful species (ie. one which
failed to reproduce its numbers) with a very successful one,
which may reach its limits and face starvation. If we are
clever that limit will not be reached for a long time yet. If
large numbers of people knew from birth that they had been
selected to have no biological future, the only positive step
they could take would be to research cloning. Need I say that
there are a lot of negative steps?

Ian