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How bout this small twist on that idea: An organizatuion that offers opeople a place to live and stuff for working on that stuff. If UI had a lot of money, I'd do that. Then, people who had no jobs or homes could have a place to wrok, and a place to stay and food to eat and stuff.

Precisely! Exactly like a military that helped people. We could even set the same age limits for being drafted. The point, however, would be to solve many of the complaints the government and companies have about spending so much money on cleaning up. Another nice thing about the idea is that it would be mostly self reliant and would not be limited to the number of people that were drafted.

I know there's a lot of different theories, especially about the destruction of the human race. I think, if left to our own devices, we would eventually get to the point of no return even if we then do everything we can to fix the problem, whether it's global warming, nuclear warfare, or whatever. I don't actually believe that we will destroy ourselves, though, because of the fact that I am a Christian. I believe in the Rapture, in which all the Christians are taken from Earth in the blink of an eye and everyone else has seven years to turn their lives around before the world is wiped clean and God builds His kingdom on Earth. I'm certain that this will all take place before we are able to destroy ourselves.

There are certain other characteristics of the world just before and after the rapture that affects my view of our future as well. For example, there will be a One-World Government, a One-World Religion, and a single world currency during the end times. I'm certain that the world will ever TRULY be completely at peace, though the world's many governments may make peace with each other. There will probably never be an end to crime until the end of time. *Heh, that rhymes!*

Now, will that said, if we end up actually being able to COLONIZE outer space before the Rapture, I think that will mostly serve to INCREASE racism, or segregation at the least. Instead of different races having their own side of the street, they can have their own side of the UNIVERSE! In order to ease that problem, we could do something like they do in Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. If you haven't read the books, they have a "Colonial Union" that takes people, especially from impoverished countries, and send them off to colonize another planet. There is also a "Colonial Defense Forces" that is there to protect those colonists. The CDF is made up of people from Earth that have decided to spend years defending the human race instead of dying a few years from now; they take elderly people and give them younger bodies to fight in. I know we don't have that sort of technology, but we can use that as an idea. Also note, this would NOT solve the problem, but it would make it easier to deal with.

That's all I have for now... Maybe I'll pop back in later wink

In the US you get tax breaks for having more kids. It's a dependant, so you get an "allowance." Or basically pay less taxes per person you take care of.

I think you should pay MORE tax for having more kids because that's more citizen using more resources. And so on, it would discourage excessive childbirth.

Theoretically; would it not be a better idea to have politicians serve a mandatory 4 year enlistment in the Armed Forces? Thusly; we might be able to prevent more warfare.
Additionally; the possibilities taxation for each additional child would actually damage the economy; due to the reduction in workforce as is the case with japan:
http://www.stat.go.jp/English/data/handbook/c02cont.htm
Additionally; massive public works projects are ways of eliminating unemployment. This could be achieved easily with powered exoskeletons (commonly called Mechs)
Some are currently under development at Mechanized Propulsion Systems inc.
http://www.mechaps.com/main.html

Thanks;
ARC Lambda 00
Mechanized Propulsion Systems inc.
Off-site XHMI (Experimental Human Machine Interface) Designer

What if we had presurized domes?

I think about it. I think we are all going to die because we will not be able to invent technology that will allow us to move to another planet and cut off from earth completely before global warming destroys earth. If people weren't saying global warming doesn't exist, being lied to that it doesn't exist, and accepting the lies that global warming isn't real on the other hand we MIGHT make it, but it is very doubtful.