Reply #1: I don't know that we can solve anything [View All]

[The2ndWheel]

"This is a crisis we ALL must solve together, NOW."

The more we do, the worse things get. We create new problems. We want more food and medicine for everyone, that's great. But we end up with an artificially high number of people, who like to have more of everything. Now we have a couple billion people who want more of everything. We can make things more efficient, but that only allows more people to use more stuff. When gas was cheap, did people not continually use more of it?

We're not going to change a damn thing. Even if we wer able to get all people around the world into a middle class lifestyle, thus in theory decreasing our population numbers because women have more rights, we're going to use more resources because a middle class lifestyle doesn't only grow on trees.

One of two things will happen. We will continue our growth. The 2nd option is nature will stop it for us. Individually, you can scale things down. As for mass society? Not a chance. Not if we want a global village. We, as an entire species, aren't changing. We'll just find ways to keep doing what we're doing, only making it sound better. Who knows what it would be, but if we had a car that ran completely on water, I'm sure there would be some unintended consequence. There is always at least two sides to everything we do. ALL of US aren't going to SOLVE anything.