X-Message-Number: 18854
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:40:35 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: climate problems and human continuation

Hi everyone!

About exhausting the planet Earth:

1. First of all, I would certainly not be in favor of doing so. There
   are lots of nice things about Earth that we could not duplicate
   elsewhere.

2. HOWEVER if we are to continue to survive, even within the Solar
   System, there is no reason why we must rely upon planets at
   all. We build large (LARGE) space stations and live on them,
   separate from the Earth entirely.

   For that matter, nothing prevents us from using engineering to
   build enclosed habitats for ourselves on the planet Earth, if
   that proved to be necessary. Yes, we'd be giving up some nice
   features of current life, but we would not simply die, and 
   could live quite long and healthy lives in such habitats.

What is the point of this message? That even the worst we could do
to the planet Earth would not cause the human race to come to an
end. It would change our lives a lot, but that's hardly the same
as annihilation. And those who confuse it with annihilation show
either a lack of the will to live, or a total lack of imagination.

		Best wishes and long long life to all,

			Thomas Donaldson

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