or the actions that might be required to sharply reduce population growth, or worse, or to reduce population already born, are to many people unthinkable. — Bitter Crank
What say you? — Bitter Crank
Should we all start donating money to schopenhauer1 and maybe he can convince the rest of the world? — ZhouBoTong
We all will have to cut our growth rates. — Bitter Crank
Morality is about self-discipline, i.e. about what you feel that you should be doing. It is never about what other people should be doing. — alcontali
All of Erlich's predictions were wrong. He lost all his resource price bets. I'd say the same will happen in the future. Human ingenuity will defeat doom and gloom as it has for thousands of years. — fishfry
If you still insist on morality being ONLY what one feels one should be doing, and without outside influences or coercion or reasoning, then what one feels should be doing could potentially include murder, rape, theft, ... — god must be atheist
I would urge you to please consider that the entire history of morality in society has been based on instruction, and telling people what they must, ought, should, do, by moral consideration. — god must be atheist
People subscribe to these teachings or they don't. The choice is theirs. — alcontali
The choice is theirs to a point, but beyond a point the choice is no longer theirs. — god must be atheist
Well, if someone creates cold fusion reactors, we've got it made. For another 100,000 years,then the same problems will rear their ugly rears. — god must be atheist
The choice is theirs to a point, but beyond a point the choice is no longer theirs. — god must be atheist
what's the winning combination of Lotto 6/49 in five weeks? And who won the World Series in 2032? — god must be atheist
Read the article I linked. — fishfry
Therefore as far as I can see, the 20-year prediction is yours.
How do you do it? — god must be atheist
If I said that AI and robotics will be important in the future would you make that same disingenuous remark? — fishfry
You're acting like those people in 1995 who said the Internet was a fad. — fishfry
That I don't contest that fusion reactors are possible ought to have been obvious to you, since you replied to my post in which I brought them up.I don't contest that it's possible. — god must be atheist
Again, for the third time I spell it out: I only contest your ability to specifically predict they will be here in 20 years — god must be atheist
Environmental constraints/carrying capacity are much more about the population growth of consumers and our industrial support than the raw population numbers. A few more million poor Indians won't matter as much as a few more million Humvee drivers. — fdrake
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