Ter get rid of the over thirties that what I say(excluding yours
truly)patrickkkkkk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: connection
> population first
>
> I need more tea before I do the rest
>
> I was serious, but not serious. It isn't email. I was utterly deadpan. But
> it is you who filled in the methodology.
>
> I merely set the targets you see. It is up to managers to decide how to
meet
> them
>
> Not serious in that I wasn't suggesting a cull. I suspect that the
combined
> lunatics of the world will take care of the reduction by random cull
>
> Serious in that a massive reduction were one able to effect it without
> suffering - cloning the planet ninefold would be the easiest - would be
> beneficial
>
> As you say, we are where we are; and as a voter I might come out of
> retirement for a party that pays attention to overpopulation
>
> L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>;
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:23 AM
> Subject: Re: connection
>
>
> > Well, yeah, Lawrence, maybe the numbers do say that there are 90% too
> many,
> > but the fact that is is that it is the existent situation, I don't think
> the
> > reduction of the human population by 90% would be, um, all that
pleasant,
> > particularly for those not in the 'saved' 10%. Question is: how to
address
> > this? For poets, how to find a language that somehow draws back together
> > what is falling apart? I can't pretend to have the answers, just an
> > awareness of something going Terribly Wrong.
> >
> > There is a Buddhist tradition about this century being the Age of
> > Destruction in which the human race will be vastly reduced in numbers.
Not
> a
> > pleasant thought that.
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