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**Just2Good** · 03-01-2009, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

I found this quote quite bemusing "...Humans are in a pretty difficult position and I don't think they are clever enough to handle what's ahead. I think they'll survive as a species all right, but the cull during this century is going to be huge," he says. "The number remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less."

To be fair there is a school of thought that says the world is probably over populated, including countries like Australia which should have around 15 million people at most. The Malthusian theory already stated that human death would result from things like food shortages, climate change, etc, so that concept is not really very novel.

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Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,229 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 I found this quote quite bemusing "...Humans are in a pretty difficult position and I don't think they are clever enough to handle what's ahead. I think they'll survive as a species all right, but the cull during this century is going to be huge," he says. "The number remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less." To be fair there is a school of thought that says the world is probably over populated, including countries like Australia which should have around 15 million people at most. The Malthusian theory already stated that human death would result from things like food shortages, climate change, etc, so that concept is not really very novel. __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~