Re:China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed
by angersock on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:28PM
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Technological advancement and human good-will has historically been way more than enough to thwart these dangers.
Erm, that works well and good, until it doesn't, and then you're fucked.
The point is that these advances don't come in a timespan of weeks or months, but years or decades (or centuries!), and when we finally see a problem concretely manifest we may well have no alternative but very nasty population reduction--the trauma of which may result in a near irreversible backslide to barbarism.
Erm, that works well and good, until it doesn't, and then you're fucked.
The point is that these advances don't come in a timespan of weeks or months, but years or decades (or centuries!), and when we finally see a problem concretely manifest we may well have no alternative but very nasty population reduction--the trauma of which may result in a near irreversible backslide to barbarism.