Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

On First Carbon of Tenderness of first Red Cat, bjm10 wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bjm10@CORNELL.EDU [SMTP:bjm10@CORNELL.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 14:33
> To:   CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Religion, Philosophy & Politics
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000 ishmael@POCKETMAIL.COM wrote:
>
> > Are you referring to loss of medical tech?  Or what?  I don't quite
> understand why anyone would be dying.
>
> A given amount of land supports fewer hunter-gatherers than it does
> agriculturalists.  Current human population is far more than could be
> supported on our planet as hunter-gatherer-fishers.  Therefore, a lot of
> people have to die to make the transition feasable.
>
I would believe that for a family or a small village, hunter-gatherers will
use less land than primitive farming.  But if you improve the farming
technology, we could increase the amount of people supported for the same
land; and if we have good trading practices, a larger used land could
support an even much larger amount of people.  Probably we are still far
from saturation but I thing the mass of people on earth is higher than the
one a hunter-gathering economy could support, in terms of usable land.

Another thing to mention would be a hunter-gathering style of live but an
industrial-based economy in which either people who don't want to live in
the hunter-gathering enviroment or machines will produce the resources to
sustain the mass of people and delivere it preventing that hunter-gatherers
predetate the enviroment.

In oder words, machines and probably some people operating/supporting the
machines will ensure to preservate, produce and deliver the resources that
sustain the people who could freely decide the way they want to get the
goods and make a living: familiar societies, small villages, nomades, big
city dwellers, machine operators, etc.

Then I will chose to quarter time machine operating an then conlanging and
interneting, spending time with my (then) wife and enjoining an asceptic
place in the middle of a forest.

You can dreem to.

-- Carlos Th