Is the world overdue for a war.

KAEP <for the cost of a trip to the space station I bet I could get her for the night>

You are brave to admit that you are so ugly it would cost that much money to convince her.

Who would be the winner after your night of sex? she'd be the one with the millions. All you'd have is a sore Penis.

We probably have Pasteur and Lister to blame for the increase in population since the early 1800's as life expectancies have increased due to advances in medicine. It wasn't until the advent of the contraceptive pill that the birth rate started to decline significantly to counter the higher survivals rates of the aged.

Forum members interested in life expectancy predictions should read
http://www.efmoody.com/estate/lifeexpectancy.html
and while it largely covers America, it has applications elseware.

If you want to do your bit to help reduce the problems of increasing population, I suggest that you eat, drink and be merry and that way you will become obese, increasing you chances of dying due to heart attack, stroke and diabetes. A pack of cigarettes a day would also help.

David

Ludwig, I'm with you on the rugrats, I've never had a desire to
have any, just a desire to make sure that there are no accidents :)

But I think its all a bit of a lost cause, which nature will sort out
in the end. Methinks humans as a species are too stupid to do it.

Just today on BBC TV, they were interviewing members of a Xtian
religious group in the US. They have twisted some bible verse to
their own end and are having all the kids they can pop out. One family
had 10, the other 13 kids. The preacher was preaching "make all the
babies you can to defend the West". With that kind of thinking,
I can't see much hope for the species.

How unsurprising that two of our most prolific misanthropes are middle-aged men who live alone and don't have any children.

That's pretty much what I was getting at.

CJ, that was a rather stupid and ignorant comment. Fact is a like
lots of people, but am perhaps just a bit fussier then you are.

Clearly you are the one with a problem, for as you let women drive
you to drink, then you seemingly don't cope very well with your
own company, a slave to your emotions. That is your problem
and not mine.