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Article #1922Re: Red hot world
From: David James Polewka
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:43
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:43
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Amos Keppler <fake@email.net> wrote: > The world is changing. Clouds are thickening. The desert is >spreading, from south to north, north to south, on both sides of the >Equator. In America, Africa and Asia areas that not long ago were >fruitful are now nothing but sand and dust. One billion people are >already affected directly, according to UN-expert Arba Diallo, and the >numbers are increasing rapidly. There are more droughts. And in other >areas there are more floods. Storms are increasing, in numbers and >strength. In governmental circles around the globe there is a lot of >talk about adapting �to the increasing threat�, to ride it out, rather >than doing useless attempts to stop it�. But this talk about adapting >never really goes skin deep. No plans are made to change our current way >of life, �the way of life as we know it�, as some puts it. It�s more >along the lines of preparing a defense, drawing a line against the >approaching enemy. Any out-of-control population is a pestilence to other populations, except those is symbiosis. The problems caused by human overpopulation are hard to see. If you don't read about them, you're in the dark. In order to be in harmony with Nature, we should have to endure our natural enemies, just as all other populations do. A convenient place to start would be to stop suppressing SARS, allowing it to spread unchecked, and see how that goes. A SARS pandemic would be much more destabilizing to non-democratic regimes than to democracies, because those regimes enjoy little popular support. It would also come down hard on the biggest troublemakers outside of politics, practicing alcoholics and addicts, because of their weakened condition. ========================= "Endeavor to persevere" =========================
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