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Restoration of habitat and setting aside half of earth for the rest of the species would be an easier solution than cloning or Crispr Human beings procreating
by jelliclesfarm 6y ago
Restoration of habitat and setting aside half of earth for the rest of the species would be an easier solution than cloning or Crispr
Human beings procreating responsibly is a major factor in continuing our species to perpetuity. It should not be for religious, economic, political or social reasons.
Species extinction occurs because human beings are outbreeding every other species on earth exploiting all the planet’s resources and keeping it for themselves.
This is detrimental to our own survival as we are super apex predators. When an apex predator gets hungry, nothing else can survive. And we are always hungry and we keep adding hungry mouths.
If we pick quality over quantity, we will have a healthy stock and sufficient earth resources when the eventual depopulation event occurs. Depopulation is a mathematical certainty.
We can either control population with responsible procreation and resource conservation or we can burn all existing and non renewable resources and perish in a spectacularly tragic and violent way.
The only way to prevent species extinction is to conserve habitat for the species. Since everything is below us, we have to step aside and make space. Without habitat, we will perish as a species.
Being the apex predator, it’s like sitting on the top most branch of a tree and sawing off all the branches. Because apex predators consume everything. Increase in population is like inviting everyone to come and sit on top of the tree too.
Hunters and fishermen know this. That’s why most conservation groups seek hunters and fishermen and NRA support. They donate because they realize the importance of preservation of habitat.
How do we go about this? By removing population pressure from economic activities like work and employment and GDP. This can be easily achieved by automation. Growing high calories, nutritionally dense food to feed the population and investing in local food security by utilizing modern tech like hydroponics and vertical farming on marginal land. Figuring out the environmental cost of replacement rate of human births and helping people gain resources to justify having children rather be a continual drain by incentivizing large families.
When resources disappear, civil unrest and war begins. We have always seen this. Famine and drought have always preceded every major war. From tribes to the latest Syrian incursion. Even way back, primitive tribes will go to war with the the neighbours when there is a famine or drought or food runs low. The men who die remove themselves from the food chain. Women and children are spared and were always spoils of war. The resources are combined for greater survivability of species..not a tribe.
The latest upheavals we see and the protests and revolutions in recent memory have always been due to less resources to distribute amongst a larger population. Densely populated regions revolt when resources are stretched thin. We incarcerated criminals when they show a tendency to appropriate community resources without contributing to the common pot thereby reducing their ability to be multiplying and replicating vectors of DNA. We did not allow the sick and the weak to continue sharing the commons.
If we look at the bigger picture unemotionally, what we pride ourselves with..the genteel fair kind and sociological progress Is what has allowed this resource restriction.
We can’t let go of that progress. The only way out is automation. And removing economic incentives for procreation. And resource allocation and distribution equally by removing speculation over resources that contribute to human survival.
- hevelvarik 6y agoThis reads more like sci-fi fantasy than a typical comment on hackers news.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoConservation of habitat as a survival hack when we are in the middle of the sixth extinction event...I ASSURE you..isn’t a ‘sci-fi’ fantasy. CRISPR would have been a ‘sci fi’ fantasy years ago. And it’s now reality. Environmental stewardship as fantasy is the sad reality we face now.
- Avicebron 6y agoI'm really trying to find somewhere to agree with you...but it sounds like they are taking issue with your "blade runner 2049" strategy, like I'm fairly decent at robotics, I got to the point where I make them out of organic molecules now...but we ain't there chief. I don't care how many hours you've logged on "ML SAAS" it's not where you think it is
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoI don’t know how to respond to snark. I really want to engage in meaningful discussions. This isn’t it.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoLet me try again. My gardener has 5 children and three grandchildren at age 48. This is irresponsible procreation. An average 2.1 replacement rate in a family unit that doesn’t rely on welfare still relies on tax subsidies, incentives and free public schools. Both are unsustainable. When there is no cost and only rewards for irresponsible procreation that is resource hogging from the commons, there will be a quick deterioration of available resources for all. When there is want and scarcity and more demand in the apex predator population, they start stripping the habitat and resources of the species below them in the food chain. That will eventually threaten the apex predators survival. This is more ‘killing the golden goose’ of Aesop tales than ‘blade runner 2049’ adoption of Philip k dick’s sci fi story. If I were to explain to a child about apex predators, I would bring up sharks..if sharks eat all the little fish in the sea, when they are out of little fish in the sea, they will die because they won’t have anything more to eat to survive.