Dylan Smith wrote:
In article pDV8c.98339$Cb.1264816@attbi_s51, Jay Honeck wrote:

I doubt things have improved much -- although, if your reproduction rates
keep dropping, your welfare states will soon evaporate.


There are *far* too many people on this planet - a drop in reproduction
rates is a *good* thing. The oil isn't going to last forever, and our
highly productive intensive agricultural systems are absolutely
dependent on oil. Humans need to downsize, or the Earth will downsize
us.

No problem. When the oil runs out in a few hundred years, if ever, we
will have already been using a different technology for awhile. There
are already electric cars. Hydrogen fuel cells are being used by a few
cities now, etc.