Re:HA! / Population idiocy (Score 1)

REALITY CHECK... Population is not and has not and (IMHO) WILL not be a problem. Why not? Our technology improves faster than our population. I invite those who worry about population density to compare the population densities of, say, Bangladesh (lots of disease, etc., no technology) and suburban Chicago. Check an atlas or almanac so you have an apples-to-apples comparison. Ask yourself why people living in similarly population-dense high-tech and lower-technology areas have different life expectancies, etc. (Blinding flash of the obvious, no?) Being an optimist, I would venture the notion that technology will even solve the nasty pollute-more-than-use problem we here in the U.S. seem to have. Technology has been saving humans from their own idiocy for all of history, despite our tendancy to burn geniuses, pioneers and visionaries at the stake. Cliched but true.