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We can dance around environmental issues all we want. Everything reaches overconsumption and overpopulation eventually. Reducing both is straightforward and can
by spodek 5y ago
We can dance around environmental issues all we want. Everything reaches overconsumption and overpopulation eventually. Reducing both is straightforward and can be done with time-tested, strictly voluntary, noncoercive means that improve health, longevity, abundance, and stability. Nothing else works. On the contrary, generations trying other methods have increased the problems.
- yodsanklai 5y agoWhat "time-tested, strictly voluntary, noncoercive means" are you referring too?
- Y-bar 5y agoNot the one you respond to, but I read it as something akin to Nudging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory > Nudging contrasts with other ways to achieve compliance, such as education, legislation or enforcement.
- yissp 5y agoJust improving womens' educational opportunities in the developing world would go a long way. It's the #2 thing on project drawdown https://drawdown.org/solutions/health-and-education https://drawdown.org/solutions/health-and-education
- spodek 5y agoFor overpopulation, Mechai Viravaidya's work in Thailand on lowering birth rates, plus many peers, like Costa Rica, Iran, and more. I posted a bunch of podcast episodes and blog entries on him https://joshuaspodek.com/?s=viravaidya https://joshuaspodek.com/?s=viravaidya, and YouTube has more. On overconsumption, I think of Bea Johnson https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/bea-johnson https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/bea-johnson and Josh Becker https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/joshua-becker https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/joshua-becker, just among people I know, improving life on individual basis, then systems people like W. Edwards Deming who showed systemic change begins with personal transformation. He worked in other areas, but led to national and global change on the scale we need in years.