- 04 Aug 2018 20:12
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This is not really a salient question. Looking at population as a macro problem does little good. Look at China's one child policy. Resounding failure because of the individual choices made. Unless you imagine some draconian lottery system or something like that it simply does not work.
Besides. I am inclined to agree with VS on two points. First that the problem is somewhat self-regulating as demonstrated by today's birth rate and second that it distracts us from what the real solution to a livable future are.
Population groups are not "happy", individuals are "happy". The solution is to make individuals happy, one at a time.
Same with world hunger. One statistic I see is that 9 million people per year die of hunger. Given the world's population, to eliminate all of these deaths, a solution must be found involving 844 people to save one starvation death. So starvation is statistically an insignificant problem. People don't starve for lack of a food supply. They starve because they are isolated from it in some way.
Will Earth be a better place with more people or less people?
This is not really a salient question. Looking at population as a macro problem does little good. Look at China's one child policy. Resounding failure because of the individual choices made. Unless you imagine some draconian lottery system or something like that it simply does not work.
Besides. I am inclined to agree with VS on two points. First that the problem is somewhat self-regulating as demonstrated by today's birth rate and second that it distracts us from what the real solution to a livable future are.
Population groups are not "happy", individuals are "happy". The solution is to make individuals happy, one at a time.
Same with world hunger. One statistic I see is that 9 million people per year die of hunger. Given the world's population, to eliminate all of these deaths, a solution must be found involving 844 people to save one starvation death. So starvation is statistically an insignificant problem. People don't starve for lack of a food supply. They starve because they are isolated from it in some way.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire