Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> Nor, imo, would the average comet or asteroid even fully eliminate
> mankind.  Set us back a few centuries or maybe even millennium, but
> that's about it.

At most.  I've had a few discussions with various people about how our
doing this or that is liable to lead to killing ourselves off, and I've
had to point out that it would be _hard_ to kill off humanity as a
species.  After all, our primary trait is adaptability.

It would be relatively easy (a large comet or asteroid impact would do
it) to disrupt approximately all current human societies and kill off a
large fraction of humanity - some immediately and directly, a whole lot
more as supply chains break down and, eg, cities starve - but it's a
self-limiting process; as the human population (and demand for food)
crashes, there will emerge plenty of places where hunter/gatherer and
subsistence farming become practical.

And once they start to recolonize the rest of the globe, they'll find
abandoned technology available, which should greatly speed the
rebuilding of the knowledge behind that technology - the knwoledge that
something can be done is often one of the most important ingredients
for figuring out how to do it.

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