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Eulalia said:
Aye, there's a lot more of us -
which is a big reason why the planet's having problems ... :(
It's hard to square our natural desire to protect and extend human life,
avoiding wars and famines, curing disease,
so more and more humans live longer and longer,
with our dawning awareness that there are limits to how much the earth can cope with
no matter what we do about carbon emissions etc.,
population is the elephant in the room.
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And we don't have much time as Thomas Malthus warned in 1798!;)
 
Loxuru said:
As far as I recall, that story happened only in 2020!:roto2cafe:
Oh! Shit!
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2022, but that's still close enough!

A few plot highlights:
"Only the city's elite can afford clean water and natural food, and even then at horrendously high prices." Ever been to Whole Foods?:eek:

"The homes of the elite usually include concubines who are referred to as "furniture" and serve the tenants as slaves. " Jeffrey Epstein...

"Within the city lives New York City Police Department detective Frank Thorn with his aged friend and police analyst Solomon "Sol" Roth." I think that's a mis-print. Should read Stan Goldman...

"Roth remembers the world when it had animals and real food," Stan doesn't remember much, but he does remember that meal at "La Bella Italia" and his son's restaurant upstate...
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
And we don't have much time as Thomas Malthus warned in 1798!
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windar said:
"Only the city's elite can afford clean water and natural food, and even then at horrendously high prices."
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This Thomas Malthus has anticipated that. But, although being a cleric, he wasn´t really a man of altruism. Basically he said that people without food should die because that were natures way of dealing with it. Malthus influence justified the "The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834", drafted by the Political Economists, that sharply cut payments to the poor.
 
windar said:
2022, but that's still close enough!
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I saw Soylent Green for the first time in 1977 (2022 seemed so far away, then), and found it quiet impressive. A great role for Charlton Heston, and Edward G. Robinson in his very last role, he died a few weeks after the filming was finished. The euthanasia scene is one of the greatest dying scenes ever shown in a movie. Sadly, the movie has been largely forgotten.
 
windar said:
Stan doesn't remember much,
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A sad condition that results from watching too many Seinfeld reruns ...

Frank Petrexa said:
20. It's not prime. I was thinking there could be some mystical numerological significance. Maybe it was all that could fit on a line: "preternatural" phenomena often have a prosaic explanation.
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A case of overthinking?
 
connoisseurs said:
The "Münchener Oktoberfest", the worlds biggest (other people would say "greatest ever") public festival has started with a new record.
After only 10 minutes paramedics had to attend the first alcoholic poisoning, a 18 year old english girl.
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Those mugs hold quite a bit. There is only the one size, right? It's not "light" beer. Weight is an important consideration in how much can be imbibed in a given time. Maybe they should hand out warning statements or something.
 
Frank Petrexa said:
Maybe they should hand out warning statements or something.
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I would think at a German Beer Festival, handing out warning notices like that
would be like handing out notices on the beach saying "Warning: Sea contains Salt" :p
 
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