[BLUG] environmentalism and limiting pop growth.

Steven Black blug_at_mailman.cs.indiana.edu
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:49:26 -0500


On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:59AM -0500, Kinzer, Victor J wrote:
> Finally I'd like to point people to the World average fertility number in
> the link from above.  It was 2.8 in 200 and is now 2.59.  Most of the
> world has lower life expectancy than we enjoy, and the number is going
> down.  I think those specific statistics speak for themselves.

For some reason I'm thinking of the isolated group of immortal people
surrounded by relatively short-lived barbarians a la Zardoz (*).

(*) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

Cheers,
Steven Black