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> ...in 200 years we went up by 6 billion? It's not because of we are breeding more but much much better health care, sanitary and less people killed in war. T
by coconut_crab 8y ago
> ...in 200 years we went up by 6 billion?
It's not because of we are breeding more but much much better health care, sanitary and less people killed in war. The growth rate is lowering, some countries such as Japan, Germany or Korea will have their population shrink a lot in the future.
> This is the fundamental human flaw, exhaust everything until there is none left and move on to the next thing...
It's easy to think that way, but environmentalism only started to have real traction in the last 50 years (correct me if I'm wrong). And during those 50 years we have achieved a lot: patching the ozone, reduce automobile pollution by having much stricter emission standards etc... It show that humanity is capable of learning and willing to correct their errors, not just a hungry species exists only to consume.
- chewz 8y ago> It's easy to think that way, but environmentalism only started to have real traction in the last 50 years (correct me if I'm wrong) You are wrong. In Papua and certain other islands it had started ca 3 thousand years ago. In Japan and Central Europe in XVII century, in parts of Italy in XVIII century..