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- From: tpalm@nada.kth.se (Thomas Palm)
- Subject: Re: The Ecocentric Criterion (again)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.090306.22174@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1466601882@igc.apc.org> <149180091@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <6966@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:03:06 GMT
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- In article <6966@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>, rovero@guam.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
- |> with respect to Alan's latest post.....
- |>
- |> If the target is 500 million people WORLD-WIDE, then the phrase
- |> "our descendants" won't mean much to too many people. You will have
- |> to prevent most of the current population from having descendants.
-
- I'm surprised none has jumped on this yet. If every couple would have one
- child the population is reduced to half each generation, thus in 3-4 generations
- we are down to 500 million, while everybody has descendants.
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- "Good planets are hard to find." Thomas Palm
- Department of Microwave Engineering
- Royal Institute of Technology
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- tpalm@mvt.kth.se
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