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Perhaps.

I don't understand why the survivors would be "mutant cavemen". On the
whole, given the sheer size of the earth, the fact that a very small
population of hominids actually did survive diseases, predators, and natural
disasters over the past several million years and then managed to spread
over the planet, and, finally,  the basic territorial survival edge that
intelligence invests with humanity as a species, I suspect that homo sapiens
would probably do quite well as scattered tribes or pre-industrial age
settlements for another ten to twenty millennia or so until the earth began
to repair itself. In line with  recent evolutionary benefit assessments, I
note that our particular kind of intelligence is probably a terrific
evolutionary "select for" advantage at the village level but becomes a
significant survival detriment at our level of planetary occupation and
population density.

Earl

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Earl Cox
Founder and President
Scianta Intelligence, LLC
Turn Knowledge Into Intelligence
www.scianta.com


AUTHOR:
"The Fuzzy Systems Handbook" (1994)
"Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" (1995)

"Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds"
(1996, with Greg Paul, Paleontologist/Artist)

"The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 2nd Ed." (1998)
"Machine Intelligence Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery"
(due Early Summer 2004)



"Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:G%Ukc.7499$TT.2636@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> A few mutant cavemen or minor tribes might survive, but on a plundered
> planet with no hope of ever rising above their current level.  Eventually
> even they would be wiped out - by predators, disease, or other natural
> forces.
> =========================
> "EarlCox" <earlcox@earlcoxreports.com> wrote in message
> news:xhCkc.134935$04.3005995@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> > I agree that humanity is consuming resources at a devastating rate,
> > polluting the atmosphere and the oceans, and breeding at a rate that
poses
> a
> > significant danger to the global ecosystem. But there is a difference
> > between the collapse of societies and civilization and the extinction on
> > mankind. We might destroy our ability to support a global industrial and
> > knowledge-based society and we might, through global warming, raise the
> sea
> > level by two meters so that our major cities, principal ports and
commerce
> > centers are flooded, and we might even, through religious intolerance,
> > explode dirty bombs in our cities and release plague weapons over our
> > population. But such actions would simply make civilization as we know
it
> > impossible or improbable or highly scattered into closed versions of the
> > ancient city-states. Humanity would continue. Human beings would exist
> > throughout the world. It would most likely take another KT or
> > permio-Triassic event to wipe out terrestrial populations on a global
> scale.
> >
> > Earl
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Earl Cox
> > Founder and President
> > Scianta Intelligence, LLC
> > Turn Knowledge Into Intelligence
> > www.scianta.com
> >
> >
> > AUTHOR:
> > "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook" (1994)
> > "Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" (1995)
> >
> > "Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds"
> > (1996, with Greg Paul, Paleontologist/Artist)
> >
> > "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 2nd Ed." (1998)
> > "Machine Intelligence Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery"
> > (due Early Summer 2004)
> > ........
> >
>
>