Don't give yourself a nosebleed here. Fomenting at me is not likely to change anything. And no, not just brown people breed like flies. While my parents had one kid & I had none, my mother's sister had 6 kids & even though 2 of them had 0 kids, she still was granny to 15 kids & I don't know how many great grand children by now.
But of course huge resource use is a problem. Ever hear of Peak oil? It sure looks like *everything* is gonna fall apart long before any life extension treatments are gonna extend anyone's life. I am nearly 59 & sure looks to me like I will wind up being kiled in rioting long before I die of old age. Cutting back on resources is a great idea. So is cutting back on population. But both are things which the human race should have done 50 years ago. I have done my very small part for both, but there were not billions of people doing similarly to me.
You speak of gluttonous appetites like you are outside of them. You own a car? You travel by air? You own a computer? I take a bus once a week to by food. Other than that I walk everywhere. Sure I consume far more than someone doing subsistance agriculture, but given the opportunity, there are few people consumming little would would not rather consume more.
Large families are useful if one is doing agricultural work by hand. Humans have not outgrown the genetic programming to spawn regularly. Lots of people make huge numbers of babies who are not engagesd in farming with manual labor. And yes, I fully agree that the ones who best get the lesson of limiting family growth are the very ones who consume the most resources, and exploit others who are poor.
If free life extension is given to everyone (which it won't be because those with the power are gonna hog it to themesleves) we must drastically cut back on population. But, as I said above, it is all just a fun exercise thinking about it. We are already grossly overcrowded, most of the topsoil is gone, and the oil is running out. Think of this thread as a game. I suggest you lighten up on the political correctness or you are gonna hurt yourself with your own righteous anger.
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Date: 2004-02-27 10:18 am (UTC)But of course huge resource use is a problem. Ever hear of Peak oil? It sure looks like *everything* is gonna fall apart long before any life extension treatments are gonna extend anyone's life. I am nearly 59 & sure looks to me like I will wind up being kiled in rioting long before I die of old age. Cutting back on resources is a great idea. So is cutting back on population. But both are things which the human race should have done 50 years ago. I have done my very small part for both, but there were not billions of people doing similarly to me.
You speak of gluttonous appetites like you are outside of them. You own a car? You travel by air? You own a computer? I take a bus once a week to by food. Other than that I walk everywhere. Sure I consume far more than someone doing subsistance agriculture, but given the opportunity, there are few people consumming little would would not rather consume more.
Large families are useful if one is doing agricultural work by hand. Humans have not outgrown the genetic programming to spawn regularly. Lots of people make huge numbers of babies who are not engagesd in farming with manual labor. And yes, I fully agree that the ones who best get the lesson of limiting family growth are the very ones who consume the most resources, and exploit others who are poor.
If free life extension is given to everyone (which it won't be because those with the power are gonna hog it to themesleves) we must drastically cut back on population. But, as I said above, it is all just a fun exercise thinking about it. We are already grossly overcrowded, most of the topsoil is gone, and the oil is running out. Think of this thread as a game. I suggest you lighten up on the political correctness or you are gonna hurt yourself with your own righteous anger.