Whitey Grandad

I challenge your first statement. Increasing populations are bad for social and economic health. The relentless pursuit of Mammon to the exclusion of quality of life is a big mistake. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil:" 🎶 You never go to night clubs and you just don't care to dance You don't have time for silly things like moonlight and romance You only think of dollar bills tied neatly in a stack But when you kiss a dollar bill, it doesn't kiss you back 🎶

I can't remember now so I checked again. Strangely enough my AI is hedging its bets now that it's been sussed out. Take your pick from the extensive list below. If you worried about this lot you'd never get to sleep tonight. Most of them seem to be a feature of overpopulation. Asteroids and supervolcanoes are difficult to prepare for. If either were to happen the pensioners will probably get the blame. Technological and Engineered Risks Artificial Intelligence (AI) Misalignment: Autonomous systems or superintelligence could pursue goals detached from human safety and well-being. Engineered Pandemics: Advances in synthetic biology lower the barrier to creating and weaponizing highly contagious or lethal pathogens. Nuclear Warfare: Large stockpiles of nuclear weapons and ongoing international tensions carry the persistent risk of devastation and nuclear winter. Cyberwarfare and Critical Infrastructure Collapse: Widespread cyberattacks could paralyze power grids, financial systems, and essential global logistics. Environmental and Ecological Risks Extreme Climate Change: Unchecked global warming risks triggering planetary tipping points, widespread heatwaves, and severe infrastructure breakdowns. Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Collapse: Mass extinction of species and the collapse of vital ecosystems threaten global food webs and human habitability. Water Scarcity and Resource Depletion: Over-extraction of aquifers and contested water basins threaten agriculture and drinking water for billions. Societal, Geopolitical, and Natural Risks Geoeconomic Confrontation and Global War: Rising fragmentation, trade wars, and state-based armed conflicts undermine international cooperation. Misinformation and Societal Polarization: Widespread digital manipulation and fake news erode public trust and destabilize democratic governance. Asteroid Impacts and Supervolcanoes: Low-probability, high-impact natural disasters could eject debris, block sunlight, and trigger global famine.

How much of that is due to population growth?

Too many people. And getting worse.

It's a paintball target.

Too late. It's already been mentioned.

I've booked southern Spain for next August. Down the bottom near Gibraltar or Algericas there will be over 4 minutes of totality.

I'm pink with envy.

He should know what that means.

We are talking about the Premier League here, right?

Don't be so melodramatic. Boro proved to everybody that they weren't good enough to get promoted so to talk about 'cheating' them out of a chance of £200m is risible. Any man and his dog could have stood on that footpath.

There are no tram systems south of Croydon that I can see. For many years Hampshire had extensive plans for a light rail/tram system but Westminster always stamped on them. Any investment always goes to the north because the Tories know that we'll always vote for them and Labour knows that we'll never vote for them.

I remember at the time it was said that we couldn't build a stadium in the Town Quay area was because it is reclaimed land.

I looked at going to Spain but I need to be back by Thursday evening. Ah well. Luxor it is then. Next year in August.

Chandlers Ford. In 1999 I could see that the UK was going to be iffy and I didn't fancy squeezing into Cornwall so I did a bit of research and saw that the path of totality carved a big swathe across Europe and particularly northern France so I found a hotel just south of Arras and in the morning we drove down to somewhere north west of Amiens. The morning started with pouring rain but the skies cleared and we had a wonderful view of it all. It was an awesome experience that I would like to do again. Was that really 27 years ago?