RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unfolding Universe (discovery channel)

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At 12:26 PM 6/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > There really is no reason for the general wealth to decrease
> > unless the
> > world is truely short on resources and that'd take one hell
> > of a jump in
> > the population. The problem is more that to much of the
> > wealth tends to be
> > held by to few. It's mostly a problem of culture, law, and economics.
> > There might be a short period of adjustment after any major population
> > changes but things should normalize and even improve after
> > each influx.
>
>We're talking long term, not just within ours, or our childrens lifetimes.
>Keep in mind you have to find the natural resources to house, feed, and
>pamper 70% of the population to keep america's standard of living.  If you
>go much lower than that, we've seen that people get depressed, and take out
>their frustration by having kids.

When people get depressed they seek escape through drugs. Sex is the 
universal drug, even the poorest of poor can afford it.

Normally when worried about scarce resources, our gov. will send the poor 
off to war for some "just cause" to seize control of what resources are 
left. The Gulf War had no other purpose. Kuwait's oil would've made Iraq as 
big an OPEC player as Saudi Arabia, which just was not an option.

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