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It may sound harsh, but that's a good thing for the planet. There are far too many humans in the world at present. The Earth needs to reduce that number to sus
by simonblack 6y ago
It may sound harsh, but that's a good thing for the planet.
There are far too many humans in the world at present. The Earth needs to reduce that number to sustainable levels. By humans disregarding the problems of global warming, there will be global famines which will reduce human numbers markedly.
Climate change is merely a symptom of TOO MANY HUMANS. It's pointless trying to reduce climate change without trying to reduce human numbers.
We have a choice: reduce human numbers ourselves down to around 1-2 billion (possibly with a 'One child per woman' policy which would do the task without trauma) or have the number reduced forcibly (perhaps via the global famines or water-wars which will occur when climate change causes droughts and low water supplies).
Being humans, we'll do nothing and be forced to undergo the trauma of having our numbers reduced forcibly.
- dnhz 6y agoIs there such thing as good/bad without consideration of the living beings on earth? It's life on the planet that matters, not the planet itself. "Good thing for the planet." How so? It seems unlikely to me that the results of climate change will be so dramatic as to kill 80% of all humans, unless climate change sparks some sort of global war involving nuclear weapons. That doesn't sound very good for the planet.
- e9 6y agoIt's not out of the realm of possibilities. Imagine some country being constantly bombarded by earthquakes, tsunamis and other destructive environmental changes to the point where people can't live normally. They will definitely rebel and try to take over land that doesn't have these issues. Much like what happened in ancient times, climate changes led to inhabitable areas and provoked wars between civilizations for land. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/climate-wars-conflicts-collapses-spurred-climate-change-180952862/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/climate-wars-conflict...
- simonblack 6y agoHumans on Earth are analogous to bacteria in a petri dish, subject to the same limits on resources and unlimited growth. https://www.thoughtco.com/bacterial-growth-curve-phases-4172692 https://www.thoughtco.com/bacterial-growth-curve-phases-4172... Yes we can go ahead blindly, and destroy our living space and therefore our viable numbers. Or, we can control our growth, and bring it back to sustainable levels. If we destroy our environment (pollution, climate change, overfishing, etc), it will hold less people sustainably than if we don't destroy our environment and reduce our numbers voluntarily to those current sustainable levels. But, as I indicated above, humans are incapable of acting in their own best interests and it will happen forcibly by Nature and not to our liking.