Re:5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf
by yequalsx on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:25AM
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Child births are down in rich countries. However, to compensate those rich countries import people and those people end up living like Americans or Europeans. There is also the fact that wealth increasing worldwide and consumption correspondingly is increasing. My statement about having fewer kids was meant to apply to the whole world.
Great, we have enough food. There is more to life than just food. In addition to having enough food we have plenty of pollution too. We are toxifying our environment. This is not abating.
Re:5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf
by Clubber on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:39AM
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Hah there is no life without food.
>We are toxifying our environment. This is not abating.
I think everyone is well aware of that. Don't you get tired of giving the speech? The US doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing about it, perhaps it's time to try another tactic.
It's ultimately a problem of our domination of viruses and bacteria. In the past, large families were created to combat child mortality rates. Once we found another way through vaccines, antibiotics and antivirals, the culture of large families took a while to subside. China and India are of course the larges population centers in the the world and both are doing something about it in a fairly humane way.
The majority of our systemic problems are a result of a population misalignment, but the US isn't a contributor to that (and many Western countries) because families in these areas have fewer than 2.0 kids.
For the most part, humanity has done an amazing job of supporting our population. Simply feeding that many people is quite an engineering feat.