My estimate of the limit with cars is one billion in North America, alone. Without cars, ten billion, and considering how many people are in India and China, that's conservative. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maryetta Campbell" <Maryetta.C@Earthlink.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 09-04-10 (Common-Sense Cubic [7])
Jim Muth wrote:
My philosophical energies....
But the real environmental problem is the number of people that the earth with its limited resources is being asked to support.
....as long as our numbers continue to grow, any 'green' solution will be futile.
Edward G. Robinson died before he could see the release of the last movie he was starring in. That was a "green" movie with several other well known Hollywood names.
It was the future, with an over abundance of people on Earth. But they had figured out how to feed everyone with the given resources. A processed food ration, in the form of a wafer, colored "green" for a particular food type.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
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