The Need to Breed

[Cinjin]

Water and food are tied at the hip. No one problem is worse than any other as soon as we've gone down the hypothetical of reaching our limits by all means available.

I've said it before on these boards, but I'd rather kill every living thing that breathes, takes up space, eats food, and consumes water on this planet that isn't a human being before I so much as begin to consider population control as a solution. A last resort should be just that...the last thing you try. Now, one might say "but what sort of life would that leave us with? Everything gone and dead, the world crowded with people, not so much as a bird singing, that sounds awful" Oh yeah? Worse than culling our own children? Shit and shit sandwiches being all that's on the table I'll take whichever plate has human beings alive and breathing on it.

I'm with the poster that said we need to get of this rock. I don't know about yall, but I think it's high time that the cruel boot of human oppression extend its reach out into the solar system and beyond. There's plenty of water out there....just for starters.

Although I disagree with the "kill every last living thing except humans" idea, I do agree, that finding another habitable planet would be ideal. However, like I told Rant, putting hope in non-existent technologies, especially ones with such mammoth hurdles to overcome is not something I would be willing to bet the human race on.

First we have to find a planet that can support human life. Than we have to figure out how to travel at light speed. Confirm that the planet is safe enough to send humans to. Than we have to build a spaceship that can house thousands of people for a very long duration and can tolerate the massive bombardment of radiation found in space. Also, we really need to be able to get people to said planet at least within a few years, otherwise, what's the point? Don't forget that the nearest planets that are only 20 to 30 light years away still take 20 to 30 years to get to. A round trip of approx. 50 years would put us at 2 trips per century.

If we as a species were able to build 10 ships that carried 10,000 people each (a highly unlikely reality), it would still take us 1000 years just to get only 2,000,000 people off this rock. Meanwhile, our planets population is growing and the global warming may have already destroyed us. Think how much damage we've done in only 200 years ... 1000 would likely be completely devastating.

Wouldn't it be easier just to stop demanding the right to make babies?