Only the best go into space right now... Well, and the rich (at least the Russians can be paid off)... Most of his books actually show a sort of balance with nature after the nuclear war on Earth (written in the 50's of course), we clean up the world, decide there are too many people, we send off just a few colonies... The relationship between the few planets and earth is poor, where the "Spacers" think they are the shit because they have all this land look down on earthlings... And then the earthlings decide to bust loose and send thousands of millions out into the stars, not to conquer worlds but to coexist... His theory is we would actually have to terraform planets because they would have no fauna or animals of their own... He was quite a smart man...
So, you think the Tom Clancy way of going out and killing off the rest of the populace except for the elite few good environmentalists would be better?
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Re: You probably weren't speaking to me, but...
Date: 2002-03-14 06:15 am (UTC)So, you think the Tom Clancy way of going out and killing off the rest of the populace except for the elite few good environmentalists would be better?