Well cats, I do agree... Here's why we are out of balance... Over-population... Almost all problems actually stem from this one simple thing... With the advance of medicine, agricultural technology, and being able to take care of ourselves better and extending our lifespan from the average of 40 years (around 2000 years ago) to 78 years (current U.S. rate of living, not world average) we have more people... Go figure... The old tradition of have a large family, half of them die in childhood thing doesn't work anymore... We can treat most childhood illnesses pretty easily... What we didn't teach in the meantime was the need for smaller families until 30 years after it happened... There are two authors I can draw from to handle this problem...
One is Issak Asimov, the most prolific American writer... Most of science fiction writing centered on humans going forth and exploring a mostly empty galaxy because his thoughts were that earth was a "happy mistake" in which we luckily were created and we can seek balance elsewhere in the galaxy... What is so astounding about his work is that humans as a whole forget the origins of humanity and forget about earth... Of course, it took over 10,000 years to do so, but it's still interesting none-the-less...
The second is the pulp writer Tom Clancy to where the world has just witnessed in the U.S. a bio-weapon (Ebola) released on the populace... Well, the world is outraged, and a company will soon release a vaccine to protect against this... However, the company is a front for a militant group of environmentalists (sorry Blu) who actually have live viruses in the vaccine instead of attenuated ones, and are also going to release the viruses in the ventilation system at the Olympics in Sydney (ok, it's 3 years old written in 1999), and plan to wipe out the rest of the population with the vaccines after the release... All the while they are holed up in a camp in Brazil's rainforest... Of course the terrorists get ganked, but it's an interesting plan...
I'll take Asimov's plan any day of the week... I'd leave earth to colonize another planet, anyone wanna come?
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Re: Catwoman in...."Shitstarter"
Date: 2002-03-13 09:42 pm (UTC)One is Issak Asimov, the most prolific American writer... Most of science fiction writing centered on humans going forth and exploring a mostly empty galaxy because his thoughts were that earth was a "happy mistake" in which we luckily were created and we can seek balance elsewhere in the galaxy... What is so astounding about his work is that humans as a whole forget the origins of humanity and forget about earth... Of course, it took over 10,000 years to do so, but it's still interesting none-the-less...
The second is the pulp writer Tom Clancy to where the world has just witnessed in the U.S. a bio-weapon (Ebola) released on the populace... Well, the world is outraged, and a company will soon release a vaccine to protect against this... However, the company is a front for a militant group of environmentalists (sorry Blu) who actually have live viruses in the vaccine instead of attenuated ones, and are also going to release the viruses in the ventilation system at the Olympics in Sydney (ok, it's 3 years old written in 1999), and plan to wipe out the rest of the population with the vaccines after the release... All the while they are holed up in a camp in Brazil's rainforest... Of course the terrorists get ganked, but it's an interesting plan...
I'll take Asimov's plan any day of the week... I'd leave earth to colonize another planet, anyone wanna come?