Seriously, every single one of us being on HN is the product of being stupidly lucky to be born where we were and be typing on whatever we are.

Millions of potential Einsteins have lived and died as subsistence farmers or worse throughout human history. If any of us were born fifty thousand years ago we would not be savant geniuses bringing about the agricultural era - if we even lived to adulthood (highly unlikely) we would have spent our days chasing gazelle to exhaustion to survive just like the rest of mankind.

This is the kind of problem that individual action cannot solve. It's well modeled by tragedy of the commons. Similarly I'd vote for banning slaughter of animals for meat, but in the meantime am not a full-time vegetarian any longer.

If you continue to troll threads by tossing in flamebait, we're going to end up having to ban you. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> You got him bro!! If you don't like that mass industrialization and overpopulation costs us our planet and potentially our grandchildren's livelihoods, instead of using the most effective means to communicate your cause, go to Africa and live in the jungle!!!! epic

Do you not see the hypocrisy in replying to someone like this while saying "Keep the dialogue civil"?

> overpopulation costs us ... our grandchildren's livelihoods

Oh the irony :)