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phorbin wrote:

In article , ask@itshall
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It probably depends on the importance you put on the survival of a huge
slab
of the human race. Personally, I think humanity needs a good scourge, but
most people don't see it the same way as I do. I reckon that at least half
of the human race could disappear and that that would be a good thing.

I used to feel this way until I realized that a disease that can take
out 50% can take out 100% by itself without considering waves of
disease, vermin, etc. that would follow.

Great book, "The World Without Us", by Alan Weisman
http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-...1C2E0QK/ref=sr
_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282344894&sr=1-1

If you liked Jerod Diamond's books, you'll like this one.

In a hundred thousand years (the blink of an eye in geologic time),
things could get back to normal(?) on Earth.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html