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Surely this is the most significant bubble that we have to deal with in order to save ourselves and the planet.
Do we somehow develop technology to solve the eventual problems.
Or, do we control the population some way.
If we do nothing, we're toast.
Thoughts?
No need to apologise for the wording of your post. I had no trouble understanding what you meant and found it a thoroughly sensible and realistic comment. Thank you.I think you're mistaking my post as well. I basically meant what you just said...that education is important because it brings women higher status and also better information regarding birth control and such. It also does decrease family size because people can put two and two together that larger families don't mean a better economic situation for them.
I worded my post poorly....sorry!
No need to apologise for the wording of your post. I had no trouble understanding what you meant and found it a thoroughly sensible and realistic comment. Thank you.
But therein lies an additional problem:There is no doubt that educated women are less likely to allow their bodies to be used as a vehicle for the production of children above the population replacement levels.
Two problems amongst a million that come to mind.
1. Over population and the inevitable wars that follow for resources. Wars consume higher level of resources, nice circular destruction formula. Wars don't reduce populations over all BTW. Losers get culled some what victors have higher rates of fertility.
2. History shows so far the higher levels of technology the higher level of consumption of energy / resources. This has been trend since Adam and Eve.
There is absolutely no drive to move beyond fossil fuels so wars will be a given.
As we continue to defy the elements to cull and control our numbers only a deep impact from outer space will reset the biosphere.
I think the earth will survive, we we as species will not and don't deserve to.
: On one side disposable income; on the other, disposable humans, who can, end will continue to be, recruited by unscrupulous radicals.
WikipediaThe population is predominantly Sunni Muslim. With a yearly growth rate of about 3.2%, the Gaza strip has the 7th highest population growth rate in the world.
With the prevalence of modern medicine there is no evolution via natural selection occurring in the developed world. While we generally have a longer lifespan due to nutrition and medicine, those with illnesses and defects that would have previously been fatal are now able to live long enough reproduce and the deleterious genetic information is passed on. As a species we are weaker now than we probably ever have been.I don't know that we as a species will completely die out, I suspect as a species we will continue to evolve (from ape to homo sapien) into a higher species.
What that will be, I suspect will be determined more by genetic adaption to biological pressures such as quality of diet, climate and disease pressures in particular, which tend to be the main factor in limiting the life span and sustainability of living things.
With the prevalence of modern medicine there is no evolution via natural selection occurring in the developed world. While we generally have a longer lifespan due to nutrition and medicine, those with illnesses and defects that would have previously been fatal are now able to live long enough reproduce and the deleterious genetic information is passed on. As a species we are weaker now than we probably ever have been.
Those third world countries where life is tough and mortalities are high are probably the only places left where humans can be considered to be under going some sort of natural selection. You could say that they are more 'evolved' than us and if down the track civilization crumbled I would put my money on them to be the last ones standing.
As for evolving into a higher species, evolution is too slow a process for today's society. We will design ourselves into the next iteration of humans long before nature gets a chance.
We've not been doing too bad on that front really. Day to day I meet very few people in Australia who are religious. Objective rationality has been on the rise for quite some time now. It is becoming more and more acceptable to openly refer to religion as a bad thing.We will never have birth control while we have religion . We will never stop religion.
We will never have a solution.
Some generation in the future will have to accept their standard of living is not going to be as good as the generation before.
The fetus is either a person or it is not. If it is, it is murder, if it is not, it is a medical procedure. It is the former.The pro lifers only charge the facts and distort as much as possible to win their case.
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