The Amazing Droopy

[_asbestosman]

I'm actually more worried about the end of cheap oil than anything else. If there's no cheap energy alternative (read: if we don't devlop cheap solar, wind, and maybe nuclear quickly), we're going to be in for hard times before we even feel the real effects of global warming.

As for whether the world could stand double the population, I think it could for a bit--if we can learn how to use our resources more efficiently. We can't keep burning oil like we do--that much is obvious to me.

Actually, personally I don't know why people have to drive everywhere. Does nobody else enjoy the benefits of biking / mass transit like I do? Saves me a bundle of money plus I either get exercise, or I get to catch up on sleep, reading, even watching shows during the commute. I laugh at the poor suckers stuck in their silly 4-lane parking lot.

[_Chap]

I'm actually more worried about the end of cheap oil than anything else. If there's no cheap energy alternative (read: if we don't devlop cheap solar, wind, and maybe nuclear quickly), we're going to be in for hard times before we even feel the real effects of global warming.

As for whether the world could stand double the population, I think it could for a bit--if we can learn how to use our resources more efficiently. We can't keep burning oil like we do--that much is obvious to me.

Actually, personally I don't know why people have to drive everywhere. Does nobody else enjoy the benefits of biking / mass transit like I do? Saves me a bundle of money plus I either get exercise, or I get to catch up on sleep, reading, even watching shows during the commute. I laugh at the poor suckers stuck in their silly 4-lane parking lot.

You sound like a nice guy you live to next door to (I intend that as a real compliment). I believe in bikes too (though fortunately I live in a place where it works really well as a way of getting around). Even though I intend to live in a rather bigger city in a few years, it has a public bike system that lets you pick one up and ride it for half an hour effectively for nothing - then you just put it back on one of the electronic bike racks that are set up every half a mile or so! Oh by the way, it's run by a private business.

Maybe we should stop all this "how do we save the world stuff". No-one important is listening to either of us. Let's just do what we can with our own lives.

[_Amaterasu]

Education of women? You mean that the CoJCoLDS will cease to encourage its young women to have children early and often, and instead urge them all to finish college and try to enter a professional career, thereby intentionally leading to smaller LDS families? Seriously?

Whether they are so encouraged by the church or not, that is what is happening with the LDS women I know in my family and as friends. It seems to me that while LDS women are encouraged not to delay having children, the are also encouraged to finish school. They are also making those decisions on their own as part of the broader American culture they are a part of. When they have children it's fewer whether for financial reasons, or stress, or whatever. Seriously, I see it happening.

I think it's unfortunate that young women are encouraged to be mothers and go to school. Same for fathers! I've done it and I'm doing it right now and it is really difficult. I think the wise thing for the Church to do would encourage people to have a career, an education, and be financially stable before starting a family.

[_Amaterasu]

Humanity's priorities ore f***ed up. It's always "life life life" rather than "the circle of life." A new set of people can't enjoy the roller coaster if the people who just rode won't get off. There is a finite length to the roller coaster (and making it longer diminishes the quality of the ride). At some point, you can't make it any longer; there's only so much track.

I, too, am puzzled at people that somehow think life is merely a beating heart or what could be. When you look at a fetus that is not conscious it is essentially the same thing as a person that is only surviving by being on life support.