Date: Wed, 3 Feb 99 11:07:00 EST
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: re: baby food


Jonathan writes:
>One wouldn't necessarily need to recreate the hunter-gatherer mode of
>living: there's nothing that says all tribes must be hunter gatherers.
>However, if there were some way to "get rid of" 9/10 of the population of
>this planet, it would be better for all involved.  The thing is, no one
>seems to have a good way to do it...

But if the tribe was not hunter-gatherer, they wouldn't be living 
"naturally", they'd be living in some kind of at least agricultural societry, 
with all the problems that you spelled out.

As for this good riddance for the 9/10ths, I sure hope you plan on letting 
your fellow -AT--lister be part of that special 1/10th.   Actually the mass 
murder of 4 billion people and subsequent corpse disposal would be a 
logistical nightmare.  Just look at the problems the Natzis, fairly efficient 
killers, had getting rid of just 10 million or so.  And if a substantial 
group of that 4 billion resisted or decided to take you with them, even more 
headaches.

So, given these practical difficulties, perhaps we could work for a better 
world with just about everybody living to see it.