Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx09.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc From: Charlie Gibbs Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <036dd555-4c8b-1d1f-9a82-7f60087bd457@example.net> <9ab5f5a3-0e1b-ac1b-49c3-075f1c37b98d@example.net> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Lines: 41 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:47:01 UTC Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:47:01 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 3210 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63941 On 2025-01-07, D wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> No amount of political will can solve the coming shortages, because >> that's not where the will is being applied. It's all going toward > > This is incorrect. Shortages, and lack of political will, makes for > excellent opportunities for political entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, these people often do not have the common good in mind. >> increasing our population beyond the ability of science to provide, >> and ensuring that technological advances will never catch up with >> ever-increasing demand. (Besides, shortages drive prices up, which >> is good for The Economy.) > > This has been said since at least the 1800s, and has been equally wrong > every single time. We have not even started to farm the seas and space. > There are enormous areas available for farming on the planet, limitless > energy, and NASA has proven that we're seeing global greening. Do not > worry about increasing population. > > In fact, if anything, population is stagnating. So throw away the > mainstream media and enjoy life. We've never had it better, and we'll > have it better still! =) I hope you're right. Most governments are quite alarmed at signs that population growth is showing signs of slowing, and are doing their best to push it back up. Canada's soon-to-be-ex-prime minister managed to double immigration, to nearly 500,000 people per year (multiply by 10 to scale it to U.S. proportions). Some of these people were just dumped onto the streets of Toronto with no place to go, having served their purpose of getting the numbers up. Meanwhile, last I heard there were still 50 communities in the country without drinking water. Priorities... -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of \ / | growth is the ideology X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey