[ExI] Oil will never run out

[Kevin Freels]

  There 
> are means to make  
> starvation less likely including vertical farming in urban 
> areas, and  
> algae and fish farming.  Part of starvation is wasting a 
> lot of grain  
> feeding cattle and adding a lot of cost to transport food 
> large  
> distances.  By going to a less cattle intensive diet and 
> finding means  
> to produce much of what is consumed locally the problem could 
> be  
> decreased in dire consequences.

Let's not forget the meat manufacturing plants. The PETA prize is out there. :-)

> 
> What we cannot and will not do is be sanguine about mass die-
> offs.    
> Of course we (as a species, nothing personal)  usually are 
> as long as  
> the dying is somewhere else.    I have heard too 
> many educated and  
> generally caring people banter the notion that the world would 
> be  
> better off with around 90% less people.   They 
> entertain this notion  
> without admitting the horrors of getting there and while they 
> insist  
> they are not promoting mass death.
> 
I couldn't agree more Samantha....Thanks for bringing that up.