tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post9031584732232730799..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: The Most Important Person You Never Heard Ofadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-16095584847322758942009-02-11T18:34:00.000-08:002009-02-11T18:34:00.000-08:00Rob: I agree with you that we've only deferred ma...Rob: I agree with you that we've only deferred mass starvation. I think the reality is that we're reproducing too fast to sustain (as a species in general). There will come a point where I think we'll have to either institute worldwide breeding laws (similar to China's), or find a way to move masses of people off planet. I suspect the former will occur first only because I don't think we're going to get off Earth within the next 200 years in any significant way. Bases on the moon, Mars, the asteroid field, and general space, sure, but we're not going to be colonizing. That's just what I think, though, based on the last 20 years or so.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-62656433365294322362009-02-11T17:57:00.000-08:002009-02-11T17:57:00.000-08:00I would say that rather than helping avoid mass st...I would say that rather than helping avoid mass starvation (which was only because two world wars had put a serious dent in agriculture in Europe), the process enabled the human population explosion.<BR/><BR/>More curious still is what will happen when the cheap hydrocarbons needed to fix nitrogen as a fertilizer are no longer cheap. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps the mass starvation has not been avoided, but merely deferred.<BR/><BR/>I had heard of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" a couple of years ago and have just requested it from my library to finally read it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14728706092051920167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-19528627202393588772009-02-10T19:45:00.000-08:002009-02-10T19:45:00.000-08:00Another book for the TBR list.Haber and WW1 makes ...Another book for the TBR list.<BR/><BR/>Haber and WW1 makes me think of the modern world's amazing capability to ignore the potential impact of technological change. Compare the modern world's ignorance of advances in genetic research to the population of Europe in 1914. WW1 started, and most populations of the participating countries participated without any real awareness of two 'new' weapons: poison gas and the machine gun. Four years later, 1 in 7 French young men were dead, with similar ratios for most other countries...<BR/><BR/>...what do we face?Nick Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425240923683155491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-88867874709652843632009-02-10T16:27:00.000-08:002009-02-10T16:27:00.000-08:00That's actually pretty interesting. Maybe my WWI ...That's actually pretty interesting. Maybe my WWI history is far more rusty than my WWII history, but I don't quite understand the correlation between being in that war and that being a reason to be relegated to the underside of history...I mean, I get it if someone was a Nazi working in a concentration camp, but WWI, if I recall correctly, was a bad war, but a different kind of war. But please educate me if I'm being a moron. I admit my ignorance of that period. I know the basics, not the gritty details. I'm far more knowledgeable about WWII, to be honest (seeing how that war is my "favorite").Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.com