<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I believe we have the capacity to greatly increase the biodiversity and life carry-capcity of the entire Earth…increasing not only our own population but the total number of species on our planet, and ultimately, in the solar system or beyond. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I confess to the sins of being an optimist and a humanist. I believe in the value of human life and human intelligence. I believe a human being is of more benefit alive than dead. </div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 28, 2015, at 11:16 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" class="">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank" class="">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Again, I’d just like to point out there’s no proof more is not better.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can assert it is not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hereby assert: More is better. The more humans the better. We don’t have nearly enough yet to even imagine what will become. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are still in the infancy of our sentience and haven’t even left the cradle yet.</div><span class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">Tara Maya</div></div></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">Define 'better'. I say we are polluting the planet far more than our species is worth.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;"> Fouling our nest, as if we are the only things in the universe worth anything.</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="http://taramayastales.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="">Blog</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/taramayastales" target="_blank" class="">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unfinished-Song-Epic-Fantasy/310271375658211?ref=hl" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tara-Maya/e/B004HAI038/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1349796143&sr=8-2-ent" target="_blank" class="">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2951879.Tara_Maya" target="_blank" class="">Goodreads</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">
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<br class=""></span><span class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 28, 2015, at 10:49 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class=""></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:'Comic Sans MS'" class=""><span class=""> </span>More is not better</span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:rgb(31,73,125)" class="">…</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:rgb(31,73,125)" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS'" class=""></span><span class=""></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" class="">Agreed. I just don’t see a clear path to prevent it.</span><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><span class=""></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></span></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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