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- From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
- Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
- Subject: Self-genociding space colonies
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.104634.4494@techbook.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 10:46:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Jul23.104634.4494
- References: <AFQMB22C@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1992Jul15.125020.17071@shearson.com> <1992Jul15.192718.21706@javelin.sim.es.com>
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- In article <1992Jul15.192718.21706@javelin.sim.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
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- >So what do we do once we're out in the middle of Wyoming in a Bucky Fully
- >comfy-fit structure? Is there anything left to eat?
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- This issue has been beat senseless in sci.environment. John McCarthy
- issued a challenge for anybody to demonstrate that Earth could not
- support 20 billion people at U.S. standard of living within 100
- years. Nobody even came close.
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- We went on to discuss the various projections, eg World Bank, that show
- human population converging on 10-15 billion people in 2050 and declining
- thereafter. Populations are already starting to decline in highly educated
- populations, and birth rates are below replacement in developed countries.
- Cryonics and nanotech may be the only way to forestall our self-genocide.
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