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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: Rocks and Homosexuals
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Date: 5 Apr 89 23:57:37 GMT
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In article <832@bimacs.BITNET> kanov@bimacs.UUCP (Mechael Kanovsky) writes:
>
>In article <14042@duke.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel) writes:
>>In article <78146WGN@PSUVM> WGN@PSUVM.BITNET (James Whitehead) writes:
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>>>This abominable lifestyle would never be selected by nature.
>>
>>What about human beings?  We multiply fast (but not as fast as mice), and we
>>destroy the ecological balance on this planet.  Do we have any mechanism that
>>can cause us to slow it?  I claim that homosexuality *may* be such a mechanism.
>>
> A much more efective way of balancing the number of humans on this
>planet is simply war.

That's how Easter Island became depopulated after the last tree on the island
was felled.  The island, you know, used to be filled with trees.  Today none.
There were religious upheavals, destruction of ancient artefacts (the toppled
statues), clans slaughtering clans, inbreeding among the "royal" clan
(racism) ...  By the time the slave traders got there, there wasn't much more
than a fraction or so of the population a couple hundred years before that
time.  And you got to understand, the only way for the people to get out was
by wood-built ship (ergo they were stuck there).

    So it will be on a global scale unless all the major cultures and political
institutions undergo major (revolutionary ?) change to accomodate the changed
circumstances.  Aliens will come here and look at our toppled skyscrapers and
corroded automobiles and write their own Chariots Of The Gods to explain 
how we could operate a car when there's clearly no oil (left) on the planet.