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I think school just got a whole lot easier. We teach math, we teach a very basic science class (no theories allowed), and we teach history (with no spin). That's it. Three classes a day. DANG, why didn't someone think of this when I was 6?awip2062 wrote:Well, there's a problem with that.
Who decides what absolute fact is? You, or me?
Smartass!ElfDude wrote:What was wise-ass in my reply? It was a simple question.
Neither have I. My point was, look at how much of what was once wild lands that is now either suburbs or farmlands. Think of the impact on our ecosystems and the pollution that is inevitable with such a large human overpopulation. Its common sense (though sadly that has become an oxymoron).I had never heard of someone opposed to farmland (ranches, yes, but not farmland or farms).
But you can't do just the math, basic science, and history. You need reading and writing, too. Without being able to read, well....ElfDude wrote:
I think school just got a whole lot easier. We teach math, we teach a very basic science class (no theories allowed), and we teach history (with no spin). That's it. Three classes a day. DANG, why didn't someone think of this when I was 6?
Hmmm... I was about to suggest economics as well, but that could be covered in history and in math. Okay, we'll stick with three classes.
And if they can't write, either? Oh dear, oh dear. *fidgets about*
Thanks for the clarification.Xanadu wrote:Smartass!ElfDude wrote:What was wise-ass in my reply? It was a simple question.
Neither have I. My point was, look at how much of what was once wild lands that is now either suburbs or farmlands. Think of the impact on our ecosystems and the pollution that is inevitable with such a large human overpopulation. Its common sense (though sadly that has become an oxymoron).I had never heard of someone opposed to farmland (ranches, yes, but not farmland or farms).
Doom and gloom predictions about population have been around for some time... I forget the name of the 19th century guy that said we would starve ourselves within a hundred years (or something like that). The Population Bomb (1968), written by Paul R. Ehrlich, also predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation in the 1970s and 1980s.Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.
Ban folks like Barbara Steisand from building homes the size of Baltimore?awip2062 wrote:So what do we do about it?Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.
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