>From: Moontanman_at_aol.com
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- choices
>Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 07:23:01 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/9/00 3:38:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>normane_at_edelendoors.com writes:
>
><< n the long run, none of this matters. There is no way to curb the human
> population growth, and we will just have to give up nature in favor of
>human
> survival. Trees, meadows, polar ice, and yes, even fish are all going to
>be
> given up in the name of survival of this building swarm of people.
> >>
>Unfortunately you are correct, but off world colonies as you say are not
>intended to relieve the over population here no more than emigrating from
>Europe relieved the population pressure there when the "new" world was
>discovered. Off world colonies would be great for the individuals lucky
>enough to take advantage of the opportunity but in the long run it would
>just
>be a way of getting all our eggs out of the same basket in case of a
>planetary disaster. Or in the case of terraforming spread life away from
>earth kinda like the earths biosphere reproducing with us as the gametes.
>I think humans are destined to spread through out the galaxy, if we don't
>we'll die, it's as simple as that. The earth can't support us forever, (We
>foul our own nest) sooner or later, to survive, we'll have to make our own
>ecosystems and habitats. Lets hope we have the sense to take as much of the
>earths biosphere with us as we can.
>
> Moon
>
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