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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ
Sean! why the pessimist mood today?
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Oddly enough, I don't feel like it's a pessimistic thought. I think it'll be good for the planet. Obviously it'd be sucky for a hell of a lot of people, but the planet can't continue sustaining us as we are indefinitely, and I don't see us changing drastically as a species any time soon. How many billions of us are there now, and still growing? Filling up every nook and cranny of the planet, tearing down miles and miles of forests every year, poisoning our oceans, displacing entire species to build condos for the new people we're constantly making. And every time in earth's history that the scales tipped too far in any direction, there's been a natural, resulting shift of some kind that brings the scales back to a more balanced position. The scales are really off-kilter right now, so the shift is bound to happen eventually.
Sorry Cacophony.
Oh, and the reason the wife and I were talking about it was because we were watching a show on National Geographic that was talking about the amount of forested areas in Madagascar that have been plowed down to make more room for people. Something like an area the size of South Carolina every year. Oddly enough, I rarely get sympathy lovin' after apocalyptic conversations....
