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Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Friday, May 5, 2000, 13:42
> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf > Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:12:11 -0400 > From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> > > 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)