Reply #9: Wrong question-- what's to "support"....

[TreasonousBastard]

a possible mass extermination of a large part of our species? Locally, we've been through disasters and wars that decimated whole populations and the only difference now is the scale.

The real question is-- when it hits the fan, what are you going to do about it?

There would be death and estruction on a massive scale but as all the disaster scenarios in doomsday fiction point out, there still should to be pockets of civilization somewhere so we don't have to start all over from scratch. History seems to have pointed this out, too.

But, history mainly points out that when calamity strikes, whether natural or manmade, it's really a crapshoot whether or not those pockets stick around long enough to do any good.

It would really suck if, after the first rash of destruction, a modern version of Vikings or Lombards run amok ripping everything down, and making firewood of whatever's left of 5,000 years of civilization.

Think of a new Pol Pot cleansing the whole world of what's left of the educated...