Great posts all around!
My only complaint with long posts though, is there are usually too many items to comment on, so I’ll just cherry pick a few.
Migration of people… People have been migrating since the beginning of time, and continue to migrate TODAY. Despite whatever you may think. 100 years ago on the very island I live on, the largest city was Leechtown. It rivalled Victoria for the capital of British Columbia. Today Leechtown doesn’t exist, there’s only a single (and bad) dirt road in, and there’s nothing to be seen there but trees.
Whether you talk about the natives who -science has proven- came here from Asia, or the europeans who came here more recently. Migration happens, and is still happening, and there are still huge swaths of habitable-yet-uninhabited areas all over the globe. Canada being a prime example. People are migrating north here everyday.
Natives food supply… For the record, MOST native cultures -specifically in Canada, are coastal/lakeland survivors. That’s what they lived off. The Natives that lived off of the Buffalo and Caribou, migrated WITH the animals, (Even the eskimos still move seasonally today) and in some cases the natives exterminated the herds -without- any help from anyone else. Sure there may have been an isolated incident where a food supply was targetted by europeans. But I can’t find an actual incident of that recorded, and in all likelyhood the food supply was just as plausibly targetted by other natives.
Regarding trusting scientists/pilots… I really liked your point U-505, and I like that it will illustrate my own. As a pilot in training, I’d be happy to provide advice to the man flying the plane, or take over the flying after finding out that he’s planning to use his skills to crash the plane and all it’s “useful” passengers into the pentagon or otherwise to secure funding for his own personal Jihad. This must be gaurded against.
Millions or even billions of people would die from war, exposure, starvation, and rampant disease in the horribly overcrowded areas that would result. I find it a bit disturbing that you have such a carefree attitude towards this.
NEWSFLASH # 2 U-5! :P No matter what we do 6 Billion people are going to die over the next 100 years, from war, exposure, starvation, rampant disease, and old age.
It’s not a matter of me being care-free, it’s a matter of fact, and it’s nothing new. :D