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It's an unpopular view and you'll be downvoted to no end for it, but the truth is none of these human activities would be a global crisis if they weren't being
by newnewpdro 8y ago
It's an unpopular view and you'll be downvoted to no end for it, but the truth is none of these human activities would be a global crisis if they weren't being scaled to the billions.
It doesn't mean we should stop reproducing, but on a global scale we need to start actually managing the population size like any other global resource and large-scale high-impact activity.
Unfortunately there's already so many people in developing nations that it seems too late to prevent some serious suffering in the next century. India alone has in the ballpark of 300 million people aspiring just to get electricity, nevermind the consequences of their population pursuing other western luxuries like automobiles, even if they're EVs, or frequent frivolous air travel.
The first world nations have operated under the flawed assumption that they can consume with impunity because they're first, they're the winners. The problem with this notion is the rest of the world is going to repeat it all. The first world nations have but set an example, and capitalism will be sure to sell everything necessary for the rest to recreate it all for themselves.
It's really too bad we didn't run out of fossil fuels before reaching this point and these outcomes wouldn't be possible, it's all going to be pulled out of the ground and burned.