<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><span><p dir="ltr">On Dec 5, 2015 1:14 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Japan is experiencing a dearth of babies and a big excess of the elderly. They are trying to support increased birth rates. Where will they live? Underground?</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">In the vast tracts of untouched land. Those who believe we are running out of room should take an honest look at Google Earth in satellite mode zoomed out to show at least a full continent, until they realize why they can't see most urban areas unless they're marked or zoomed in upon.</p><span>
<p dir="ltr">> We really don't see much about population control lately, and to me that's a big mistake. We will eventually have to do it. Why wait?</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">I would like to see humanity some day number in the trillions, so that those services that are hard to financially justify to mere billions may come into service of humanity. This vision includes expanding the resources we are able to tap (likely including extraterrestrial resources), to support that many in comfort.</p>
</div></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">OK, suppose I buy all that. What will most of them, the vast majority, do?</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Watch TV? Invent marvellous new stuff? Build nifty building? Just live and let live?</div><div><br></div><div>There are limits to reasonable population growth, but we are still very far from them. I am more concerned with the quality, not the quantity of people. We need on average better humans, no matter if the total number is less or more than today.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał </div></div>
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