Headlines:
NASA: Antarctic Ice Melting Fast, Sea Levels Going Up
Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Rate Accelerates, 1,250 Square Miles Lost In Past 5 Months
Asia To Produce Over 60 Percent Of World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2010
Bird Flu In India Has Spread to Nine Districts Of West Bengal
but then:
Scientific Breakthrough Could Allow Humans To Live For Hundreds Of Years
You've got to be kidding, right?
Can you guarantee there will be a world left to live on? That you wouldn't live in poverty for many of those hundreds of years? That you wouldn't live as a 98 year old with Alzheimer's for five hundred years? And how would your health insurance work? Wouldn't the planet get a little ... crowded?
I think I'll pass....
5 comments:
First, world peace. Lots of energy possibilities, really. We need a new government, pronto.
I've got relatively good genes for longevity. I think I'd like to stick around to see what happens.
There will be no room for future generations in a hurry if we stop death. So Michael is right, either way, we need to repair the world so it can withstand us.
Then Sorghum Crow... you need to make sure you save a LOT of money and your health insurance doesn't expire before you do!
All species must adapt to environment, or alter environment to suit. This is an iron law of growth and survival.
The other iron law of growth and survival is if the species becomes too big and ruins the environs, they will die.
I'd rather not leave the planet in such a wreckage with heaps of bodies all over the place.
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