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Old 24-04-2007, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Johnny Electriglide View Post
Remember what I wrote years ago about the Earthship Villages, high tech with small manufacturing ability. Biofuel and electric vehicles, and possible radio/satellite/physical contact with other similar villages. That was all from the median data, and the mathematical certainty of population crash and oil depletion.
Nope, could you enlighten me? In sounds very similar to what I have proposed.

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we are really looking at extreme species loss and a surface that is uninhabitable even for these villages. Totally underground massive fortresses with nuclear reactors, good water and treatment facilities, hundreds of years supply of food, and grow light capacity with generational population staticism, would still have difficulty making it for the many many thousands of years it will take the biosphere to return to close to what it was. If these "molemen" could last, what would they be like in 200k years? No eyes? Inability to handle solar radiation? Still have an inate inability to understand and live sustainably on the surface?
We have a strong possibility of a population collapse, especially if we continue that way we have. However, at this point in time we still have other options. That would involve a change in culture and the way we do things. Difficult but not impossible.


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I agree with Bowman that, like with my first post, everyone should be thinking about sustainability as an ecological definition, not business, or the oxymoron sustainable development. The old Ute Indian Rule of Life, to think 7 generations ahead of the consequences of our actions and decisions, should have been adopted throughout humanity, as common sense and a religious principal.
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