Re: A big problem for the next 100 years - energy demands

>From: "Thomas.Barclay" <Thomas.Barclay@cbu.xwavesolutions.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>To: "'GZG-L'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
>Subject: A big problem for the next 100 years - energy demands
>Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:12:45 -0400

>This is a pull, but the gov't would also be pushing people to do
>this. And there would be a reason for trade - to help support the
>homeworld's needs for more energy. The homeworld would offer cheap
labour
>and plentiful technological base in return for resources to help keep
the
>machinery of society running - energy resources.

Thomas,

I agreed with everything you said, but I'd like to clarify something:

In regards to the use of the terms "Push" and "Pull" as I proposed them,
you 
have the order turned around. The desire of the colonists to escape the 
environmental ravages of Earth would be the "Push," a push away from
Earth 
and to the new planet.	The desire of the home government to attain a
new 
source of energy resources would be the "Pull," a Pull to a place that
has 
those things.

However, despite my little nitpicking, You are correct in the idea that 
there will be both an attraction for the people to go there, and an 
attraction for Earth to send them. Furthermore, I would, and have,
argued, 
it requires BOTH elements to provide sufficient impetus for early space 
colonization.

Brian Bilderback
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