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> Disease and aging should be our number 1 priority Humans are ballooning as a species and hurting the planet and causing other species to go extinct... and yo
by devmunchies 7y ago
> Disease and aging should be our number 1 priority
Humans are ballooning as a species and hurting the planet and causing other species to go extinct... and you want to eliminate disease and aging from said species?
- buboard 7y agoOf course agent Smith. What better way to exterminate the wretched human species than to make it die of overpopulation?
- Creationer 7y agoOnly specific sub groups are doing that: https://www.populationpyramid.net/static/population-projections.png https://www.populationpyramid.net/static/population-projecti... Or to be specific, Africa and West Asia, due to a lack of access to contraception. That can be solved by redirecting 100% of aid towards education, contraception and abortion for women, and away from food aid.
- neodypsis 7y agoYour proposed solution may sound unorthodox, but it's an interesting view on how to solve the problem in the long term. Although I don't think it will be viable politically nor socially accepted.
- breck 7y agoSecond derivative of population is negative. I understand the point of view that preserving species is a moral good, but it is just one of many possibilities and could very well be wrong.
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