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Cmd+F'd the comments and not one person has mentioned overpopulation. There are more people than ever before, and the issues of crowding are simply a symptom of
by geddy 7y ago
Cmd+F'd the comments and not one person has mentioned overpopulation. There are more people than ever before, and the issues of crowding are simply a symptom of overpopulation. The idea of raising the prices to make it cost-prohibitive... what's the point of doing anything, then? Soon, every single hobby will have too many people doing it. Are we to raise the price of everything to be so unaffordable that we go back to spending evenings sitting in front of the television?
We need to face the problem sooner or later, and that's that we have too many people on this planet. We're going to have a massively difficult time feeding everyone in 20+ years (the meat industry is already devastating enough on the climate), "tourist crowding" will be the least of our worries. Well, until the lack of food or the climate issue sorts that first bit out.
- rubidium 7y agoEh, you're just repeating the same 'scare' tactics that Ehrlich did in the 1960's. He was mostly wrong then. And you're mostly wrong now. We don't have too many people. But we are making poor choices about our farming techniques, industrial practices, and infrastructure. 10 billion people can live on this planet just fine. The solution isn't less people. The solution is better care of our planet and resources.
- geddy 7y agoRight - _if_ we take better care of our planet and resources. Any idea how to enforce that in the most densely populated areas? China, perhaps? In what reality can we get 100%, heck, 10% of people on the planet to do everything a certain way?
- kalado 7y agoI thought the population is stagnating as people get more educated and have less children?