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Re: Rage against spammers and telemarketers
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:14:26 +1200
Rob Slade to Me:
You don't think that the massive sea-level rise now almost certain to happen by mid-3/4 century, wiping out the mostly coastal and river deltas that currently house approximately 80% of the planet's human inhabitants and an even greater proportion of its readily arable land (and this is ignoring ongoing urbanization in the already most heavily over-populated areas), doesn't technically count as a "flood"?Since the only ones to drown would have to be willing to sit for a few months while the water rose over them, ...
I'm not aware of any sensible definition of "flood" that requires there be any drownings...
... technically this'd probably be more like "giving Darwin a leg up."
Indeed -- a catastrophically accelerated leg up at that...
So, famine this time. (Pestilence, when the waters start to recede ...)
And you don't think that that level of relatively sudden, _massive_ famine wouldn't lead to at least disease and death? And, given our hostory, almost certainly war? Don't forget that the world's population will roughly double in the lead-up to this, mainly among the deeply ignorant (due to grossly inadequate education which will only worsen due to the increased population pressure) and mainly in the more loony religious parts of the world (parts of the ME and SE Asia and much of South America). No-one is taking vaguely appropriate measures against any of this, let alone such measures on anything like the scale necessary to avert such problems... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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