On 5/24/08, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> The U.N. predicts that world population will increase from 6 to 9 billion
> over the next 50 years
> (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/pop952.doc.htm).
. The alternative
> of governmental population control requires the sort of surrender of
> fundamental freedoms that, IMHO, we should consider intolerable.
FWIW, I am highly skeptical of that UN projection.
On the second point, we might not consider it "intolerable" if the
clear alternative is the collapse of civilization. I am not arguing
that this is the case -- only that "intolerability" is a measure with
a long string of values.
I have seen it argued, for instance, that the carrying capacity of the
earth at our current technology level in terms of human beings is not
only finite but perhaps as low as a few hundred million.
What if this were so?
Burgy
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