Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

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> Date:         Thu, 4 May 2000 13:12:11 -0400
> From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
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> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > There is only one animal on Earth abundant enough to allow hunting to
> > be our main source of protein (cf. Swift). That solution should speed
> > up the transition quite a lot too.
>
> LOL.  But even then we wouldn't be able to get sufficient vegetables and
> fruits.
As long as we don't throw away the tin openers... if a Swiftian
solution is adopted in earnest, the population will drop so fast that
there's no way we can get through all the stockpiled food before it
spoils. But distribution is a problem if modern transport technology
is abandoned at the same time.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)