RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
August 3, 2015 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 2:48 pm by Aristocatt.)
The total number of resources used is directly linked to the total population. Allocation of supply is irrelevant. That the supply exists already suggests that the consumption has occurred. Anything unused represents wasted consumption. Poor people in one country can still work for pennies to increase the obscene consumption of another.
Scarcity of resources also does not simply curtail population growth. The opposite is generally true when you look at population dynamics. A resource scarce and poor countries typically have higher birth rates. Parents will literally accept that a number of their children might die, because the ones that survive will be able to increase their longevity after they grow to old to work. This is pretty much how it works in a lot of African areas today. In places like China and India, resource scarcity and survival represent two different topics. A child can still work and provide more than he consumes at a young age by working in factories that provide rich countries a greater opportunity to consume more per capita. Also your point only makes sense if populations are expected to stop growing anytime soon, since the concern is overconsumption leads to a tipping point in global warming which is irreversible and catastrophic. The global population trend has been an exponential increase of population. Population scientists predict that growth will continue well into the 21st century. It turns out that both you and malthus were wrong.
No I do not. You question is akin to asking why black people are better than white people in an attempt to defend segregation. Neither group of people is better or worse.
Scarcity of resources also does not simply curtail population growth. The opposite is generally true when you look at population dynamics. A resource scarce and poor countries typically have higher birth rates. Parents will literally accept that a number of their children might die, because the ones that survive will be able to increase their longevity after they grow to old to work. This is pretty much how it works in a lot of African areas today. In places like China and India, resource scarcity and survival represent two different topics. A child can still work and provide more than he consumes at a young age by working in factories that provide rich countries a greater opportunity to consume more per capita. Also your point only makes sense if populations are expected to stop growing anytime soon, since the concern is overconsumption leads to a tipping point in global warming which is irreversible and catastrophic. The global population trend has been an exponential increase of population. Population scientists predict that growth will continue well into the 21st century. It turns out that both you and malthus were wrong.
No I do not. You question is akin to asking why black people are better than white people in an attempt to defend segregation. Neither group of people is better or worse.
