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So many of the problems we've made seem like they could be great fixed by less people instead of more each year. Imagine the next population doubling and all t
by ck2 3y ago
So many of the problems we've made seem like they could be great fixed by less people instead of more each year.
Imagine the next population doubling and all that cost and suffering it will bring.
- Thorrez 3y agoThe population won't double again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
- shuckles 3y agoThe cure is worse than the disease in that case.
- psunavy03 3y agoDamn all those people living their own lives and doing what fulfills them instead of what you want!
- ks2048 3y agoThe problem is too many cars, not too many people.
- paganel 3y agoThe truth is somewhere in between, as those people don't want to live the "idyllic" Pacific islanders life anymore, they instead want the same ease in transportation as people in the West have got accustomed with decades ago (i.e. cars). And who can blame them?
- paganel 3y agoAnd to think that the neo-malthusian discourse was derided just a few years ago. I'd say that in the last two years or so it has established itself as fact, even though nobody calls it out loud by name (probably because of past negative associations).
- brutusborn 3y agoSince the problem is proportional a function of population and car importation, you would need to depopulate 100% to ‘fix’ it, anything less just slows it in proportion. It’s the same as advocating mass suicide to reduce pollution. Absurd.
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- netsharc 3y agoTechnological progress have really doomed the planet. People living in huts and foraging for food are CO2 neutral. Meanwwhile nowadays utopia is a huge house, huge fridge, huge TV, gaming PC, tablet, phone, great exotic food, jetting to vacations. And of course everybody(*) planet-wide wants that, but there's just not enough resources/CO2 budget of the plante to cater for that... (*) it's a generalization, yes people are different and not 100% of humans want this, please don't be boring and nitpick this word.