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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>depleting fuel supplies</STRONG>: abundant
oil and gas until nanosolar cells (including in roads), fusion and more advanced
power sources</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>population growth</STRONG>: unable to be of
serious concern until the Escalation, though the serious increase in the West
starts in 6 years as the cancers and heart attacks and overt neurological
malfunctions are halted</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>poverty</STRONG>: self-reproducing
assemblers (simple basics the easiest to software)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>climate change</STRONG>: global warming
probably averted an ice age - (note climate can be altered by altering
continental shapes)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>famine</STRONG>: in fact malnutrition
stands at 750 million, being reduced by c.100 million per decade currently
(early 2000s), could be reduced much faster to very low levels with some
moderate political will</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>water shortages</STRONG>: there is no
shortage of water, just different mechanisms for storing it - pipe
nano-desalinated sea water to sources for artificial rivers (or
whatever)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the antiSpike was correct as such, the Club of
Rome would have been vindicated 15 years ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, where the antiSpike is correct is in
relation to extinctions of other species. In this regard, those who do not
believe in boosting animals or neo-Tiplerism ought at least to push for freezing
species individuals and reproductive materials, in logic. Many do so but
governments seem unconcerned. - Personally I value the individual beings
(non-self-aware though they may be, partially-conscious though they may be), not
the abstract 'species' or their ecological 'interaction' in non-consciously
directed environments. The reality is that the biosphere and all ecologies are
going to be controlled by us together with AI - and it will be a boosted
biosphere. Remember Cordwainer Smith, and remember that things work faster than
in the Instrumentality. Any parks are going to be plant parks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Damien Broderick" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:thespike@earthlink.net"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>thespike@earthlink.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "ExI chat list" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:40
PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: [extropy-chat] the wrong
Spike</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Hmmm...<BR>> <BR>> amazon tells us about:<BR>>
<BR>> The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe<BR>> by Colin
Mason<BR>> <BR>> List Price: $29.95<BR>> Edition:
Hardcover<BR>> Hardcover: 250 pages ;<BR>> Publisher: Earthscan
Publications, Ltd.; (October 2003)<BR>> ISBN: 1844070182<BR>> Amazon.com
Sales Rank: 890,505<BR>> <BR>>
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----<BR>> Editorial Reviews<BR>> Book Description<BR>> * The disturbing
disclosure of six "drivers" - depleting fuel supplies,<BR>> population
growth, poverty, climate change, famine and water shortages -<BR>> that will
converge in a catastrophic "spike" in the decade of 2030<BR>> * Reveals how
the world is poised to plunge into a new Dark Age - unless we<BR>> act
now<BR>> <BR>> * Reassuringly presents a prioritized action plan to avoid
the coming crisis<BR>> and build a bright future<BR>> <BR>> The 2030
decade will see six "drivers" converge with unprecedented force in<BR>> a
statistical "spike" on the graph paper of life. Depleted fuel supplies,<BR>>
rampant population growth, poverty, climate change, famine and water<BR>>
shortages are all on a crash course that could plunge the world into a<BR>>
global dark age.<BR>> <BR>> Mason cuts through the rhetoric, reams of
often conflicting information and<BR>> doom saying to illustrate a broad
picture of the world as it is and the<BR>> courses of action that we need to
take now to avoid catastrophe. With over<BR>> 100 priorities for immediate
action to prevent crisis in the future, this<BR>> book presents a way forward
to a bright and prosperous future for all<BR>> people.<BR>> <BR>>
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