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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I talk about collapse to devise ways to deal with it, because it's happening no matter what.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If 7 billion people would do the rest of us a big favor and just fucking die we wouldn't be in this mess. Fortunately nature always seems to do something at just the right moment to control exessive populations.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm guessing you're not volunteering to be part of the 7 billion though right? Even with a significantly reduced population we'd still be facing a lot of the same issues, despite what the globalists say.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm old so that will happen soon enough but I know that a 25% reduction in the local population would open up a lot of housing.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There's no current problem facing humanity today that wouldn't be completely cured with a right sized population.

Granted, there would be cleanup issues. Nuke plants. Nuclear weapons. Bioweapons complexes. Chemical and industrial facilities. Oil wells. But our biome would recover and it would take a while before the juice could gain power again.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There's no current problem facing humanity today that wouldn't be completely cured with a right sized population.

The problem isn't the size of the population, it is the quality of the population.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're correct to identify human quality as a primary contributor to poor results, and the proliferation of 'modern scum'.

Humans have an innate drive to breed and replace deprecated units. The problem lies in low quality assessments of the numbers needed. This has resulted in population growth that is accurately described as cancerous.

You've flown across the US. Looking out the window you saw virtually the entire surface covered by industrial food production, then the blight of cities surrounding the airport at your destination.

Look at any type of map, and the evidence of metastasized cancerous growth is everywhere. And it continues. Modern life is cancer. Quality humans would limit the population to at least no higher than a sustainable level, but it really should be orders of magnitude below maximum carry capacity.

We recognize it's not good to run our car engine at redline. We build infrastructure with margins of error to avoid catastrophic failures. But in our own population we've vastly exceeded all restraints. It's going to be ugly af when the boom hits the bust phase.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only about 1/10,000 need kick it for things to go well, but OK...