(July 3, 2014 at 8:01 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The middle class in America (and the rest of the first world) is rich and incredibly environmentally destructive by the standards of everyone else on the planet. Your average first world citizen uses something like 15 times the resources of your average third world citizen. Expanding the middle class is arguably a terrible thing for the planet. Maybe we should all just learn to live with less. Eventually we will have to anyway.
I don't entirely disagree but I don't think billions of serfs is the answer. Cull the herd. We have way more than enough biodiversity. The problem wouldn't be our lifestyle if our numbers were more appropriate. The planet shouldn't be all about us.
