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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:19:09 EST
Subject: Pave the Earth (Kennita)

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>Comments, please.  Am I being shortsighted and poisoning a
planet that I'm going to have a use for for a long time?

  Without industry and technology, the Earth will be hit by an asteroid and 
go into a final Ice Age fairly "soon" (~millions of years.) If our wealth and 
technology grows exponentially for 500 years, building a few robots to eat 
some benzene will be no big deal. Personally, I'm against drinking benzene 
cola until we have telomerase-promoter adenoviruses approved, and one 
person's right to exude benzene has to be limited by your right to exist. But 
by far the biggest risk that we face is political and economic stagnation. 
(Ask Zheng He...)


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