Good suggestion. However the self-interest of the various religions get in the way. If you can't convert, at least you can out-breed. As for the present situation, nature and the tendency of mankind to support war will eventually take care of the excess. No, the answer is a change in attitude. If even the slightest imagination and intelligence were used, many more people could live very well in even the most populated countries. We do not lack space, we lack common sense. If God made us, he did a lousy job. He made a lifeform that insists on believing things that are clearly in conflict with reality, and will kill or give up its own life to support these beliefs. A lifeform, to a large extent, that lacks empathy for his own kind and for the other lifeforms made by this God. A lifeform that has the conceit to believe that it is unique and will gain advantage over other individuals by using a particular worship of this imagined God. At the same time, we have the ability to discover methods to visit the stars while other people will turn this knowledge into weapons that will be used to destroy anyone who does not support their beliefs. If you were God, would you have made such a self-destructive creature? If you had, would you give support to individuals who had these obvious imperfections even if they attempted to worship you?
Ed
peat bogg wrote:
Mike Carrell wrote:
Jed and Ed have voiced eloquent laments for wild space and connection to Nature. Ironic that TV ads for automobiles seduce with the lure of access to ever more remote open space.
We've gots lots of people and more on the way. They will need to make a living. Doing what? Living where?
Jed's elegy for beautiful Japan is a case in point. Pave over paradise to provide work.
Our technical society removes drudgery, more goods for less work, so we can ?????
Have we lost our way, or is this a passing phase?
No answers, just questions.
Mike Carrell
If the population were not so high, the problems described here would not exist.
It might make more sense to start thinking about how to lower the population of the world rather than about how to build more power plants.
