 
From: wce@hogbbs.scol.pa.us
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Date: 	Wed, 31 Mar 1993 17:54:31 -0500
To: angst+@CMU.EDU
Cc: +dist+/afs/andrew/usr/js9b/public/camc.dl@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Has the Cat gone the way of the Dodo?
Reply-To: wce@hogbbs.scol.pa.us
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Jon, In your message you write:

> 
> With regard to Jesse's comments about population levelling out at a
> pessimal level - does anyone have any info on that kind of thing? are
> there studies or resonable projections based on factual data that give us
> projections? at least, what do you thing is the projection for everything
> going to hell?

The 1989 Scientific American "Managing Planet Earth" special issue
projects that the planet's population will double again in the next 40
years. That means approximately 2030.

That's a good sci.am to get out of the library and photocopy.

Most of the estimates for the next doubling that I've read fall
somewhere between 2030 and 2040.

Well within our lifetimes.

But, as Jesse said, most people are unconcerned with the future-- the
present is hard enough for them to deal with, and they cling to dreams
of a halcyon past.

"When evil men conspire, all that is necessary for their success is that
good men do nothing", or however that quote goes...

Later, Bill

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