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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I doubt it'll be as dramatic as all that. But the environment is collapsing from every angle: water shortages, rising sea levels, micro-plastic pollution, soil erosion, catastrophic decline of pollinating insects, acidification of the ocean, climate change. What I expect to happen in the next 50 years is that the planet will stop being able to produce enough food for the human population, and famine, war and mass migration like we've already seen in Europe will become enormous problems.
Personally, I don't understand why there isn't a global population cap enforced immediately. No woman can bear more than two children in her lifetime. If we don't do that as the absolute bare minimum, there's going to be a humanitarian crisis on a global scale within our lifetimes. I haven't heard it seriously proposed anywhere though, presumably because it's considered inhumane to stop people breeding like fucking rabbits.
I will say, though, that an attitude of "It's too late to stop it, so I won't even try" is a complete moral dereliction. |
Birth caps (like china had) are incredibly problematic. In some ways wealthier nations are doing it to themselves; white middle class people aren't having kids like they used to even 30 years ago, let alone 50.
It's the poor that generally pop out of several kids, due to various factors such as a lack of contraception, education and the hope that family can support you (literally a family workforce).
The things is that population graphs exist for a reason, and frankly nature adjusts itself. We'll run our of resources, out of clean water, breathable air, places to store our trash/waste, and then there's the other factors that come with overpopulation such as disease and famine.
In the grand scheme of things and evolution of time, we're meaningless - we haven't lived 1% as long as the dinosaurs did in one of their three periods yet we've managed to basically start the process of wiping ourselves out in a self induced cataclysmic event.
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