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awip2062 wrote:Well, there's a problem with that.

Who decides what absolute fact is? You, or me?

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.

ElfDude wrote:What was wise-ass in my reply? It was a simple question.

Smartass!

I had never heard of someone opposed to farmland (ranches, yes, but not farmland or farms).

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).

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.

But you can't do just the math, basic science, and history. You need reading and writing, too. Without being able to read, well.... And if they can't write, either? Oh dear, oh dear. *fidgets about*

I can see a problem with these three classes as well, though. Sorry. Anyway, maths and basic science (teaching only laws, no theories) might fly, but as for the history with no spin, well...again, who decides what history? *siiiiigh*

Xanadu wrote: My point was, look at how much of what was once wild lands that is now either suburbs or farmlands.

Every single square inch of what is suburb or farm one was wild.

Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.

Xanadu wrote:

ElfDude wrote:What was wise-ass in my reply? It was a simple question.

Smartass!

I had never heard of someone opposed to farmland (ranches, yes, but not farmland or farms).

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).

Thanks for the clarification.

Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.

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.

Maybe that's why I didn't enjoy the 80s very much.

Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.

So what do we do about it?

Anyone?

awip2062 wrote:

Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.

So what do we do about it?

Anyone?

Ban folks like Barbara Steisand from building homes the size of Baltimore?

Nah...

Restricting civil liberties is commonly mentioned.

awip2062 wrote:Restricting civil liberties is commonly mentioned.

Yeah, let's skip that too.

Skipping is good exercise.

ElfDude wrote:

Walkinghairball wrote:Mankind has to survive one way or another. Without a place to live, jobs and food, we perish. Unfortunately other stuff suffers.

Maybe that's why I didn't enjoy the 80s very much.

Shoulda done coccaine Elf. The 80's were a blast. J/K

I enjoyed the 80s. Some of the best music was written then!

But the coke, well, I couldn't afford that and I think the Pepsi ruined my sense of smell.

*SNARF*