You really must read more of Dave Foreman's Hyper-Malthusian writings. Starvation, the black plague, AIDS, and other viruses will do the trick. Foreman said at one point that the optimum population for the Earth was approximately 20 million, I believe. Give or take a few white-assed, beer-bellied New Mexicans.--jsc
Carrol Cox wrote:
> I have never read extensively in anti-technological literature, so
> perhaps this
> question is answered somewhere in it.
>
> Supposing one desired to eliminate technology, how would one conduct
> the transition from a world of 6 billion, most of whom depend on
> technology
> for survival, to a world of population levels which can be supported
> with
> primitive technology? Primitivism being a utopia (by which I mean any
> plan for the future which justifies itself primarily by the declared
> excellence
> of that plan), one suspects that its adherents overlook problems of
> transition.
>
> Carrol