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R/Steve Rothboeck


>From: "Rahne Kirkham" <rahne at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: rahne at mindspring.com
>To: <sanjer at televar.com>
>CC: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Re: we are standing at the dawn of another mesozoic era! (LONG)
>(fwd)
>Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 02:59:03 -0700
>
>While agreeing there are too many people, I agree with the attached. What
>are we supposed to do about it? I've done all I can to limit births (being
>childless by choice). I will certainly holler if they decide I'm
>expendable.
>Should we let sick people die? Not any of my loved ones, thank you.
>So what can we really do? I ask sincerely because I love this beautiful
>planet and all its life but I'm at a loss. I do everything I know how to
>do,
>vote, sign petitions, donate money when I can, recycle, try to persuade
>others. What more can we reasonably do without trying to come up with a
>"final solution." Any ideas, tweets?
>
>Rahne Kirkham
>rahne at mindspring.com
>Federal Way, Washington
>
>When asked why she was always so cheerful,
>the old woman replied,
>"Well, I just wear this world as a loose garment."
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <sanjer at televar.com>
>To: <nyneve at u.washington.edu>
>Cc: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 11:15 AM
>Subject: Re: we are standing at the dawn of another mesozoic era! (LONG)
>(fwd)
>
>
> >
> >
> > Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:
> >
> > > i thought you all would like to read this.
> >
> > Big snip.
> >
> > > "The question is, Is that what we want? How many people do we want on
> > > this planet?"
> > >
> > > Controlling food production could be one way of controlling the
> > > population, according to Thornhill. "Every year we produce more than
> > > we did last year, and every year the population gets larger. In any
> > > ecological system, more food equals more individuals."
> >
> > Okay, reduce human population.
> > snip
> >
> > > Medicinal plants are particularly important, Raven said.
> > >
> > > For example, rosy periwinkle, a plant native only to Madagascar, is
> > > the source of a drug that makes Eli Lilly US$130 million per year.
>The
> > > drug shot increases the survival rate for childhood leukemia from one
> > > in 20 to 19 in 20.
> >
> > I thought the solution was to reduce the population.
> >
> > We could go to the other end of the age group and start producing
>"Soilent
> > Green" thereby reducing the population and providing a food source at
>the
> > same time.
> >
> > Jerry Converse
> > Grand Coulee, WA
> >
> >
>


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