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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Feb 29 11:42:44 2008, in response to Re: Air Train question, posted by trainsarefun on Fri Feb 29 10:17:29 2008. Plenty of blowhards consider those railroads to be not vital and not necessary. You will argue with them how?By giving them valid reasons why they are wrong. There is no one like that here so there is no point preaching to the choir. Fact is: very little in life is actually vital or necessary. Nutrients, shelter, healthcare, a certain amount of contact with other humans, etc. You really don't want to start down that road, or we're back envying the lives of our non-Homo sapiens ancestors. I have no problem starting down that road; and here I go: The population of the Earth is currently possible solely because of industrial development. Assuming for some reason the industrial system collapses and we revert to a hunter-gatherer society, billions of people would die within a short period of time, such a society is not capable of supporting the population which currently inhabits the world. Given that, we can argue that there are services essential towards allowing industrial society to continue and they are vital to all the people who would die in the absence of industrialization. |
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