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Re: Zartman forgot one
Posted By: Sir Galahad <malund@hotmail.com>	Date: 1/16/00 7:37 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Zartman forgot one (Stall the space fantasy, get it right here first) > While space science and colonization are interesting topics to > think about, I believe that people should be focusing their > efforts on getting it right here on Earth before we go to > another planet to plunder it. With oil soon running out, > populations (already way too large for sustainability) rising > dramatically, pollution, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, and > humans' unstoppable march through every living ecosystem on the > planet, we should not rely on the fantasy that we can just > escape from here and move on. We should be thinking about how we > can maintain earth's homeostasis. > We must stop this instinct we have that growth is good and that > we must spread ourselves everywhere we can. Humans love to grow > into every niche and exploit all they can, and never attemp to > maintain a sustainable balance. This can be seen on all levels, > such as government economic growth strategies, human > colonization of lands and the capitalist growth and dominance > mantra. > That is my view anyhow. > RL I agree with your arguments, but the phrase "populations (already way too large for sustainability) rising dramatically" is slightly off, so to speak. If you've read New Scientist for the past six months or so (can't remeber what issue) or perhaps heard about it some other way, you would have found thát the UN has altered its forecasts about population increases. The population of our world will increace until 2050 and then steadily decreace for at least hundered years. As for your other arguments, they are IMHO actually an argument FOR space exploration and colonisation! To quote from the Mars trillogy "Intelligent life is far too precious for it to be on only one planet" or something. This was probably one of the resons the colony ship Marathon was sent out! /Sir Galahad

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Zartman forgot one	Otokam	1/13/00 9:32 p.m.
Re: Zartman forgot one	Otokam	1/13/00 9:33 p.m.
Re: Zartman forgot one	Dr. Nick	1/13/00 10:41 p.m.
WinMars	Nemesis	1/14/00 10:43 a.m.
WinMars; Part2 (OT)	8Delicious	1/14/00 10:58 a.m.
Re: Zartman forgot one	Doug Zartman	1/14/00 3:23 p.m.
Re: Zartman forgot one	Stall the space fantasy, get it right here first	1/16/00 6:21 a.m.
Re: Zartman forgot one	Sir Galahad	1/16/00 7:37 a.m.
Space fantasy	RL	1/16/00 9:59 a.m.
But...	Ben Schodek	1/16/00 2:09 p.m.
Re: But...	Dispatcher	1/16/00 6:03 p.m.
Re: But...	Otokam	1/16/00 9:58 p.m.
Nah.	Xian	1/16/00 3:40 p.m.
Re: Nah.ot	8Delicious	1/17/00 1:58 p.m.