RE: The Need to Breed
August 13, 2012 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2012 at 12:47 pm by Cinjin.)
Interesting observations from all of you. For some reason this topic is weighing heavily on my mind these days.
This to me sounds a bit absurd. Putting faith in technology that does not exist is more than just "optimistic" especially considering that prosperity will not be increasing when nations are killing other nations just to feed the masses. Who's going to invent this technology? How much will it cost to own and operate it? Will all nations be able to afford such technology? I mean it's a ridiculous notion at this point. Meanwhile, while we're fighting to eat, no one's doing anything about the CO2 that's being released from the sea floors because of the global warming that's gone unchecked due to the amount of energy needed to pull more resources from our dying planet.
I don't see any kind of solution posted in this thread ... and very possibly there isn't one. However, 20 years from now when we have a head count on this planet of 9 billion people, someone, somewhere is going to have to say, "I personally am taking responsibility and I am not going to make any children in my lifetime."
I don't think hostile population control will work either, but without governments committing mass genocide by way of epidemic or war, I don't ever see people standing up and taking responsibility.
It's wishful thinking to say that your kids aren't going to be a detriment when everyone else is thinking the exact same thing.
Do the math. In only 50 years, without world war and improved health care, we could easily have 12 to 14 billion people on this planet. What then? At some point it'll be too late to start taking responsibility.
I think population control has to happen immediately and drastically as food shortages are already increasing all over the globe.http://www.thepanamadigest.com/2012/07/i...is-coming/
(August 13, 2012 at 4:01 am)Ryantology Wrote: Isn't there a correlation between prosperity and slowing population growth? That would make the solution "do as much as possible to increase the prosperity of the most people to the greatest extent".
I find cause for optimism when the idea of one day constructing pretty much anything at all through molecular nano-assemblers is, at the very least, considered a plausible theory.
This to me sounds a bit absurd. Putting faith in technology that does not exist is more than just "optimistic" especially considering that prosperity will not be increasing when nations are killing other nations just to feed the masses. Who's going to invent this technology? How much will it cost to own and operate it? Will all nations be able to afford such technology? I mean it's a ridiculous notion at this point. Meanwhile, while we're fighting to eat, no one's doing anything about the CO2 that's being released from the sea floors because of the global warming that's gone unchecked due to the amount of energy needed to pull more resources from our dying planet.
I don't see any kind of solution posted in this thread ... and very possibly there isn't one. However, 20 years from now when we have a head count on this planet of 9 billion people, someone, somewhere is going to have to say, "I personally am taking responsibility and I am not going to make any children in my lifetime."
I don't think hostile population control will work either, but without governments committing mass genocide by way of epidemic or war, I don't ever see people standing up and taking responsibility.
It's wishful thinking to say that your kids aren't going to be a detriment when everyone else is thinking the exact same thing.
Do the math. In only 50 years, without world war and improved health care, we could easily have 12 to 14 billion people on this planet. What then? At some point it'll be too late to start taking responsibility.
I think population control has to happen immediately and drastically as food shortages are already increasing all over the globe.http://www.thepanamadigest.com/2012/07/i...is-coming/
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