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In article 92Jun10212607@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com, slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle) writes:

>Your pessimism is, in my opinion, unwarranted.  I hope that I am
>correct.
>I do hope you are wrong.

Am I a pessimist? Because I have proposed a way to support a world
population of as many as a trillion persons for the next 5 billion
years in civilized comfort, with more private space than most people
have now, free to love, to laugh, to discover, to find new ways to live
out their lives and carry forward the human adventure?


Just because I find that trying to live with an effectively infinitely
large interface between our economic activities and the terrestrial
environment won't work? Are you really that attached to open, scattered
settlements?

Okay, so people are going to have to accept a few restrictions. They
can't have as many kids as they want. They can't go outdoors and tear
up the landscape. They have to cooperate in recycling everything. They
don't get to tool around in fast cars.

I suspect that people can find plenty of ways to get excitement without
destroying the planet or their own life-support system. Oppressive?
Compared to our present way of life, with crime, drugs, wars, famine,
traffic jams, garbage, ...

Who's the pessimist?


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Jon Roland
Starflight Corporation, 1755 E Bayshore Rd #9A,
Redwood City, CA 94063-4142, 415/361-8141