My OP was never just about food and water though. Granted those are the essence of sustained life, but I think our population will kill our planet before we truly run out of food.
For instance:
If you add another billion people in 12 years, yes we have to feed them, but more importantly we have to spit more shit into the atmosphere with all the things they require.
More cars, more fuel, more emissions.
More factories, more products, more emissions.
More cell phones, toys, clothes, and goods of all sorts, more emissions.
More food production, more energy, more emissions.
Rhythm pointed out that a family of 10 consumes less then a family of 3. Sometimes, yes that's true, but it's certainly not an absolute by any stretch of the imagination. Also, that family of 10 ages and separates, and what use to be a family in one household does not simply become two households with two cars. It becomes 10 households with 10 cars and all the trimmings that go with it.
Regardless of whether or not we have enough food and water - the growing population is still doing irreparable harm. Yet still, there is this god-wants-me-to-have-children attitude and fuck the world, it's my right.
No, it's not. Your rights do not extend to depriving the entire future of the human race the right to exist.
Population is certainly not our sole concern, but to say that it's not even a factor is just naive and in MHO, utterly absurd.
For instance:
If you add another billion people in 12 years, yes we have to feed them, but more importantly we have to spit more shit into the atmosphere with all the things they require.
More cars, more fuel, more emissions.
More factories, more products, more emissions.
More cell phones, toys, clothes, and goods of all sorts, more emissions.
More food production, more energy, more emissions.
Rhythm pointed out that a family of 10 consumes less then a family of 3. Sometimes, yes that's true, but it's certainly not an absolute by any stretch of the imagination. Also, that family of 10 ages and separates, and what use to be a family in one household does not simply become two households with two cars. It becomes 10 households with 10 cars and all the trimmings that go with it.
Regardless of whether or not we have enough food and water - the growing population is still doing irreparable harm. Yet still, there is this god-wants-me-to-have-children attitude and fuck the world, it's my right.
No, it's not. Your rights do not extend to depriving the entire future of the human race the right to exist.
Population is certainly not our sole concern, but to say that it's not even a factor is just naive and in MHO, utterly absurd.
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