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Old 02-09-2008, 04:54 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobLL View Post
The man who created the Gaia Hypothesis (as a metaphor, not new age religion) has assumed that we are past the tipping point, and to reduce a cataclysmic human dieoff by the end of the century genetic manipulation of amost all of our food sources will be absolutely necessary, including growing much of our food in vats.
Rob, this inevitable. I simply can't see how a population can continue to grow within a closed system without massive die off and when that happens, it ceases to grow.

Now, perhaps we could reduce it for a while, postpone it, but it's coming. I think the longer we put it off and super populate the planet, the greater the devastation that will occur. The die off will probably be even greater because we unnaturally exceed the capacity of the planet's resources.
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