RE: This is What Global Warming Looks Like
July 26, 2012 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2012 at 11:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We already produce more food than is necessary to feed our population. Production is not the issue Ace, distribution is. This rock is bountiful, overflowing with resources (finite yes but immensely so from our tiny POV), the distribution is now and has always been unfair. We could do something about that. We could also streamline our energy consumption in the process (as a great deal of energy is used to distribute resources).
Damage would increase with population, but lets consider for a moment how much damage is done through waste and inefficiency and consider that a heretofore untapped reservoir of elbow room for increased population (which is just as much an asset as any natural resource btw). That is an issue that can be handled without invoking population control (and would be required for population control to work in any case).
Again, a small number of us are behind the brunt of the damage to begin with.......doesn't that seem to be a problem of efficiency and not a problem of numbers? Let's try to use an analogy here. If you were running a business of 10 employees, and you determined that 1 of those employees accounted for 80% of your losses, 9/10 of these employees are not an issue, they do not account for any appreciable loss:
Would you-
fire 3 employees
fire 1 employee
retrain the employee you isolated
-dissolve the company- (nod to the luddites that might be lurking)
(I'm sure creative business owners could come up with more solutions than just these btw)
Which do you figure would have the best overall effect?
Damage would increase with population, but lets consider for a moment how much damage is done through waste and inefficiency and consider that a heretofore untapped reservoir of elbow room for increased population (which is just as much an asset as any natural resource btw). That is an issue that can be handled without invoking population control (and would be required for population control to work in any case).
Again, a small number of us are behind the brunt of the damage to begin with.......doesn't that seem to be a problem of efficiency and not a problem of numbers? Let's try to use an analogy here. If you were running a business of 10 employees, and you determined that 1 of those employees accounted for 80% of your losses, 9/10 of these employees are not an issue, they do not account for any appreciable loss:
Would you-
fire 3 employees
fire 1 employee
retrain the employee you isolated
-dissolve the company- (nod to the luddites that might be lurking)
(I'm sure creative business owners could come up with more solutions than just these btw)
Which do you figure would have the best overall effect?
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