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Originally Posted by seashore
I haven't viewed the video yet.
In my mind, population growth and stewardship of the planet are two different things and I would like to separate them to simplify the discussion. I don't think anyone argues with the need to stop the indiscriminate use of resources...
But what's wrong with population growth? It seems that should take care of itself. Does the video present a convincing argument that we must slow or even stop our rate of growth? There's something about that concept that doesn't feel right to me...
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It is impossible to separated the two Seashore. They are intricately connected. I think it's pretty obvious that the more people there are on this planet, the more resources we use, whether it be water, food, land, etc. And just as with any smaller scale biosphere, there is a point at which an area just can't sustain more life.
Our planet is reaching that point,
IF we continue to live as we currently do. If we learned to produce more renewable goods and energy, we could learn to live more harmoniously with the planet and the population growth wouldn't be an issue. However for decades we have constantly increased our rate of reproduction and consumption and the planet can't keep up.
Unbeknownst to most the eugenics plans of some of the PTB are already in place and working. Every day hundreds if not thousands of children in third world countries die due to famine and disease that could be avoided. Big business has taken over the resources of countries all over the planet and reaps the benefit of it while the inhabitants live in shacks unable to feed their families.
Again, do I agree that we need to kill off millions of people, no. But we cannot continue to grow at the rate we have been for the past even 50 years, continue our current lifestyles, and expect to still be around 100 years from now. If they don't kill us off, we will kill ourselves off eventually.