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Originally Posted by Charlie Southerland
Brian,
Rational discourse is a two way street. I used what I know to be recorded history, not speculative fiction. Harrrumph. There is no mantra position here. I was trying to be accurate, not colorful.
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Accurate? Well, according to your system of beliefs, six thousand years ago there were only two people alive. Even according to mine, there were approximately seven million. Now there are more than seven billion. That's
three and a half billion times your number, and a thousand times mine. So not only were their numbers infinitely fewer, but they lacked all the technological means we have today of pumping filth into the atmosphere and the oceans, notably heavy industry and the internal combustion engine. I'm sure even you can accept the equation: Many more people + fossil fuels + industrial technology = vastly increased pollution.
And by "speculative fiction", I take it you are referring to the entire body of knowledge acquired by archaeology, geography, physics, chemistry, anthropology, biology, botany, astronomy, and other disciplines.