[LMB] [OT] May I do this?

[Scott Raun]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:41:58PM -0500, James Nicoll wrote:
> OK, here's the question. No offense to anyone intended.
> 
> 	Suppose you are told the Earth of AD 2300 has the following
> characteristics:
> 
> >No space exploitation beyond information retrieval.
> >
> >        36 billion people (Africa ~ 22%, Asia ~ 57%, Latin
> >America and Caribbean ~ 9%, North America 6%, Europe ~ 6%,
> >Oceania ~ ha!). Age distribution is fairly flat, distributed
> >mainly between 0 and 100 years (although a minority of the
> >population is older than 100 years of age).

My first response would be 'what happened to South America?'
_Something_ totally wiped the human population of South America, and
there's been no significant attempt to resettle?  Must have been
something pretty awful!

Or should Latin America/Caribbean be South America/Latin
America/Caribbean?

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Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org