Colored Backgrounds (or not...)

[Trevor Smith]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:01:53 -0800 (PST), Bill Wood wrote:

>Global warming as a phenomenen is a fact, otherwise we
>would still be in an ice age with glaciers moving
>around in the southeastern US (think what that would do
>to traffic on I95). But the notion that human activity

We wouldn't even notice in Canada except for the fact that the hockey
season would be longer (if that's possible) and "Friends" would look
decidedly different...

>As for overpopulation, you're right. That is the huge,
>overriding black cloud on our horizon and there nothing
>I can do about that. And you're right, I don't have a
>lot of sympathy for them, as I don't for most people
>with self-inflicted wounds.

"Them" = Us, including you.

No one person or two people is overpopulating the earth. You and I
may have had 0 or 1 or 2 children but the state of this planet is
*everyone's* responsibility. We all help to maintain the status quo
that forces people in developing nations to have poor access to
health care, education, birth control, etc.

I can't save the world either but I do have lots of sympathy for all
of us for the gunshots we're routinely delivering to ourselves.

>But the only hope they have
>is in western science and technology (and that means
>primarily the US). For example, maybe an internet

Probably. Good old fashioned British prudery might be better to stop
them from procreating but I guess some God-fearin' Baptist bible
thumping might do the trick just as well. :-)

>thinking, but it's too late; I already have a family). 

Damn. It *is* your fault the world is overpopulated!


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