A new view of mass extinctions... (Endings)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, July 04, 2009, 19:44 (5619 days ago) @ David Turell

Matt/xeno: "So to me, this means that the solution is going to have to be one of human engineering."
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> > More likely War, Pestilence and Famine. That's the only way I can see of the human population coming under control.
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> Population experts think we will plateau off aat 10-11 billion, based on the dropping birth rate in advanced countries. The answer then is to bring up everyone to our first world level, if that can be done. It means junking a useless UN and forging a different organization without the graft and mismanagement. - Population experts haven't agreed on that since... whoever the Brit was that predicted that we would run out of food back in the 18th century. I've read as high as 19B. - As for the UN, the *only* way that would happen, is if governments agreed to give up sovereignty to whatever replaced the UN. What makes the UN ineffectual is that it can't enforce anything. I see no country allowing such a beast to exist. - EDITED - I advocate dictatorships, ala Roman Republic days.