RE: Re: Interstellar Shipping

>Population pressure is harder to deal with. We obviously have a
population
problem on Earth, but it's not universal. The population growth in first
world countries is actually shrinking. It's quite possible that India
and China would be able to deal with their population problems before
colonization becomes feasible Africa, though, may be a much bigger
problem, but I don't see Africa having the resources to colonize other
planets. 

Some parts of Africa have negative population growth due to AIDS and
associated diseases.  Don't know what the population figures are for the
whole continent but between that plus Muslims killing Christians and
animists in Sudan, Nigeria etc, I don't know that overpopulation is as
much of a problem as people expected it would be.  That is, the only
famines I've heard of lately have been when one group choked off food
distribution to the other group, not when the total food suply was
short.

Of course, one man's "comfortably close" is another man's "way
overcrowded".  And interstellar colonizing doesn't have to be just from
a single cause.

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