<![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> @Grey_Area: I believe global warming and disease will help population control. Living off-world would be the best way to handle this problem but we would probably overpopulate another planet again within time. Humans grow more than twofold. We're like tribbles.[www.trekfrontier.com]

Cheap Shot

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> Corpore metal, I was agreeing with you, but was being a little hyberbolic. Althouhg, population presure might drive us to invent things that we otherwise wouldn't have to. Like better sanitation, fresh water purification, atmospheric reclaimation....All those things we might need to use on board a large ship.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> @Jeff-Minor:

I disagree. We are currently in a lot of trouble right now because we were too fruitful, in addition to being wasteful of limited resources.

My opinion is that unless we learn how to manage our population and whatever finite resources we need to use, the stars will remain forever out of our reach.

We have no hard facts, but it's my guess that most space-faring super-civilizations have extremely rigid population control. It's either that or the universe is already full of predators (tool using or not.), parasites and diseases (technological or not.) to cull the overly exhuberant breeders.

If the universe is finite, there will probably be a long period where a stable, global ecosystem will emerge where diversity is maintained and monocultures are avoided.

corpore-metal

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> Think if the cops bust me for growing marijuana in my bedroom I can just claim that I'm planning for a future moon colony?

B

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> How about not having more than two children?

blissmj

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> Grey Area, humans have to be fruitful and multiply so we can populate the universe/s! We are Von Newmann machines. Thank goodness the Unverse/s is nearly infinite.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> What about jumping to stop global warming? ;)

peterpoe

]]> <![CDATA[20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years]]> I enjoyed this series and would look forward to the occasional future installments. I especially liked the idea of tutoring in your AI list (although my personal math skillz should be kept out of the hands of children).
Population control seems the most important task for our species now and one we have a better chance of actually doing something about. Spay and neuter ourselves. Educate the heck out of the precious darlings that have to inherit this shiny dys/utopia we're building for them.

Grey_Area

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