"Christopher M. Jones" wrote:

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message .. .
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:03:37 GMT, in a place far, far away, Dick
Morris made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

OK, you said that twice the current population would be
overpopulation. That's equally nonsense.

I said that we *could* double our population, but at the cost of a
substantial portion of our remaining wildlife habitat.

That's not necessarily true.

Someone's obviously never seen the US from the air.
There's lots of room out there.

sigh Room for building housing and shopping centers is not the
problem. Except for designated Wilderness areas, National Parks, etc.,
a large majority of our land is already in use for farming, ranching,
mining, logging, etc. Wildlife populations have been decimated since
Columbus, so we don't have as far to go as you might think.

And I've described numerous times why I think we're far from being so.

You have *asserted* numerous times that we're far from being so. You
have not *described* the technological "deus ex machina(s)" that you are
counting on.

We don't need such devices to double the population.

The population of the US doubled more than once during
the 20th century. Deus ex machina?

The population has doubled about 28 times since the first person set
foot in what is now the US. So?