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>There exists a realizable, evolutionary alternative to our being either atom-bombed into extinction or crowding ourselves off the planet. The alternative is th
by laotzu 11y ago
>There exists a realizable, evolutionary alternative to our being either atom-bombed into extinction or crowding ourselves off the planet. The alternative is the computer-persuadable veering of big business from its weaponry fixation to accommodation of all humanity at an aerospace level of technology, with the vastly larger, far more enduringly profitable for all, entirely new World Livingry Service Industry. It is statistically evident that the more advanced the living standard, the lower the birth rate.
-Buckminster Fuller, Foreword, Grunch of Giants
He's talking about the Demographic-Economic Paradox by the way. There is a renewable surplus of the basic physiological needs of humanity, yet almost 50% of the global population lives in poverty and struggles to obtain these basic needs. The most simple and effective solution to overpopulation is to focus on renewable production processes and distribution methods (i.e. farming the sea; using automated solar power drone distribution methods). Technically, it is entirely feasible, it is just a matter of user buy in which is the real challenge.