Tom the Dancing Bug - Saturday August 8, 2009 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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max the terrible infant -and- doug the cartoon character in double trouble or "malthusian merriment" max: doug, i've been thinking about famine and environmental disaster. doug: that's a fine way to start a comic strip. max: let's say the earth is pretty much filled up with humans, all needing food and space, and making garbage. doug: yeah... max: what if people continue to reproduce at a rate that will double the population in thirty years? doug: well we could become more efficient at growing food and distributing it, and we'd adopt strict environmental controls on waste and deforestization. max: even if that worked, the population would double again in 30 years! doug: we'd have to buckle down with really aggressive environmental and agricultural programs! max: but the population would still double again in 30 years! doug: then we would set up unbelievably innovative and mind-bogglingly creative environmental and agricultural programs! max: but the... doug: that's not fair! if the population keeps increasing there is no solution!! max: relax, doug! it was just hypothetical! pant pant worm: right. the earth couldn't handle one more doubling of population!

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