Re:Feeding 10B People Will Require Genetically Modified Food
by bancars on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:04AM
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Honestly? We don’t even have to try. It’s a tragedy of the commons thing: life forms will reproduce and spread until they die off. Smear some bacteria in a Petri dish and the same thing happens. A lot of it has to do with reproductive healthcare (the lack thereof) in developing nations. Basically, people keep having unprotected sex. Biological reproduction is so fundamental that even if every nation in the world had a stable government, I’m not sure there’s anything we could do that isn’t super dictatorship-y. And even then..
It’s pessimistic, yeah, but we don’t have to even try to have babies. People will keep making that individual choice until we run out of food or energy or something and lots of people, most likely the poor, die.
Re:Feeding 10B People Will Require Genetically Modified Food
by tw04 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:06AM
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>life forms will reproduce and spread until they die off
Because they don't have the higher level thinking skills to realize their reproduction will have negative consequences. That's a horrible reason to not at least attempt to address the issue.
Fighting global warming would be a LOT easier if we were encouraging people to not have 10 kids...
Ahh, good ol hacker news. Downvotes without a single person having a cogent argument against attempting to limit population growth.
A bus full of people texting on their phones with nobody in the drivers seat and everyone refusing because "it's not my problem". Instead of addressing the glaring issue, let's add WiFi to the bus!