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> What you are proposing, but you are not saying it loud, is forced population decline, that is to kill people now so that a greater cause (to your mind) is ach
by Daishiman 5y ago
> What you are proposing, but you are not saying it loud, is forced population decline, that is to kill people now so that a greater cause (to your mind) is achieved. This is scary stuff.
Why do you have to kill people? You can just no make as many new people.
You can either plan a degrowth or plateauing in population and resource consumption or you condemn humanity to the same tragedy of any colony that invades a host and consumes it until there is nothing left to consume.
Whether solar energy and sufficiently advanced recycling will fix our resource problems is an open question, and we can expect some miracles but it's unlikely to solve everyting. Can we make 10 billion people eat meat, heat up enormous houses, and fly twice a year? No, not really.
- eptcyka 5y agoExcept for nuclear, all energy is actually solar. Fossil fuel is just buffered, compressed solar energy.
- mschuster91 5y ago>Can we make 10 billion people eat meat, heat up enormous houses, and fly twice a year? No, not really. For what it's worth, we can. 1/3 to 1/2 of produced food is wasted before it ever reaches a mouth, we can use geothermal energy for heating and cooling (and enforce that big heat providers like datacenters are providing heat for their neighborhood), and we can cut down on unnecessary flights (most business flights can be replaced by a videocall, as Corona proved) so that people can still fly to holiday.
- iggldiggl 5y agoI know too little about agriculture to quantify it more exactly, but at least to some extent the overproduction of food is because these days, we never ever ever ever never ever want to end up with a food shortage if at all possible. So to guarantee enough supplies even in case of a bad harvest, you need to overproduce.