........................................................................... 33 WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES ................................................ ...der methods that have historically controlled population have been reduced. Wars are so horrible that countries now occasionally try to avoid them. ... ...se on the other mountain top. Kelsey Grammer lived down the way on Cornell. Bob Foxworth lived on this side of the lake. My next door neighbor was S... ...nder the lava at Herculeneum and the ash at Pompeii. Krakatau’s eruption in Indonesia in 1883, an eruption that had worldwide effects in terms of re... ...hat they are adults. So adulthood is thought of as strictly biological, not involving mental or emotional maturity, not involving any ability to fin... ...aturity, not involving any ability to financially take care of oneself, not involving any socially useful purpose. “I’ve heard young men say...

... gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to s...