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Let me introduce you to a concept of limited resources In order to provide for everybody, eventually population control must be enforced. That is just pure evil. Yea helping people is good, but to what extent? The path to hell is paved with good intentions -yuri
Sometimes you gotta remind yourself how lucky you are to be living during this age. Just imagine what kind of world our great-grand kids will inherit.
Given the past 10,000 years of human invention, we'll probably be hating each other like usual and killing each other with more effective machinery.
The matter isn't limitation of resources, but rather distribution. Population control will never have to be introduced because of carrying capacity of our environment. When the human population becomes too numerous to sustain itself it will be reduced, due to lack of resources, back to a sustainable population. If the human race is to colonize extra-terrestial bodies, then the carrying capacity of that environment will have to be taken into account. It really comes down to a matter of population distribution and recsource distribution. The current problem we face is waste and poor distribution, as well as hoarding and cost barriers (which prevents impoverished communities/populations from acquriing resources). The human population can fit into Texas if it was willing to tolerate New York City's population density levels. http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/10333/The-entire-world-population-could-fit-in-the-state-of-Texas-and-it-d-only-have-the-population-density-of-New-York-City http://factslist.net/2013/03/the-entire-world-population-can-sink-into-the-state-of-texas/ http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/at-nycs-density-the-worlds-population-could-live-in-texas.html
In a capitalist society you would be right. My post was directed at the idea that we can provide ffor everyone, which is impossible unless you control the population. I think you missed the point. I was arguing that central planning will lead to a need for population control. I'm fully aware if the capacity of earth -yuri
We may be technologically advanced but we are still very primitive in our ideas and beliefs. People today still let religion dictate all of their beliefs even if science has proven them to be false. Until people stop blindly believing in things and begin to see reality as it really is, we cannot advance as a species beyond simple technological advances that make us even more lazy and prone to doing exactly what I was just talking about. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Worse, propensity to enslavement to dumbass notions causes Stalins and Maos and Hitlers and people that think their god wants them to kill everyone that doesn't agree with them. And as if the human script was written by a madman, technological advancement provides these asshole-loonies with an ever increasing means to carry out their various destructive insanities.