carrying capacity for humans

Bart Rossmann c561027 at
Fri Dec 30 20:57:32 EST 1994

>From: dzolek at (D. Z. Skinner)
>Subject: carrying capacity for humans

>...two relevant stats I recently read in the popular press.  These are that
>go from here?

  We produce enough on earth to supply the world populace, so carrying 
capacity has nothing to do with the problem.  There are so many variables that 
no one can do this topic justice. For whatever reason, humans are inherently 
lazy and greedy.  This throws out most political-economic solutions, you need 
to provide the necessities to the poor yet provide motivation to succeed, and 
not just give handouts (the negative psychological reactions from the 
successful/achieving).  The first world nations of the earth have the greatest 
technological resources which gives them the most economic and military power. 
Unfortunately, less than 1% of the nations are first world, which may be the 
stem of our problem, since they decide economic policy with the unfortunate, 
(a lot of you scientists should be familiar with the unfair legislation by the 
fact that a lot of your chemicals and genetic experiments are "dumped" on 
third world countries.)   Now the solution is obvious, free and open trade to 
let technology and jobs to cross all the borders, and then we will only have a 
poor workong class to deal with, but which country is going to give up it's 
"sovereignty" in the international market?  It is more an economic problem 
than anything, because as the standard of living increases, the population 
growth decreases, and eventually we will all be forced to reproduce to keep 
our numbers high enough(this is a joke). Just do what I'm doing, study 
genetics enough to create a creature not as pitiful as the human race,  or now 
create a positronic brain and let the robots run everything.
   Another thing, in case this pops in your head, simply educating won't work, 
look at the Phillipines.  Over 20 years ago we trained numbers of them to be 
doctors, what happened?  "Brain drain." They all came to the U.S. to get the 
better paying jobs and higher standard of living for themselves and their 
families. Usually only rich children attend anyways, no solution there. An 
auto factory does a lot more good, because even an idiot will demand a good 
education for his/her kids when they are paying taxes; genetics I guess.

Bart Rossmann 
all debates welcome c561027 at
-"I always wanted to be a grown up until I realized that adults aren't any 
 more mature, just bigger."

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