The problem isn't that we don't know how to reduce our numbers. The problem is we believe every life has a potential to be something more than what we have now.
We value life, any life over logical reasoning.
Nature tries to cull our numbers.
Problem is, we are smarter than nature.
If we just allowed nature to take its course, most of the problems would not exist.
Its our life-saving and support practices that are getting in the way of natural stabilization of our numbers.
How many births would survive to adulthood if there were no efforts being made to preserve life?
How many handicapped, disabled, deformed or dimwitted people would live without assistance and technology?
Look at the natural world, the weak die. The strong survive.
Billions of years of examples.
The issue is not the how to do it, we have the means.
The issue is our own morality that prevents us from nipping this problem in the bud.
Before anyone says it, yes, I should already be dead.
While I am happy not to be, I also know that I am part of the problem.
Like a terminator, I can't self-terminate and others will not take the action so I remain.
Realistically, I should have been terminated before I could reproduce.
I had 4 children which caused another 14 grandchildren. Plus, a possibility for even more. Then those 14 grandchildren may have children of their own and even if it is one child per couple, another 14 great grandchildren but how likely is that? What if my 14 grandchildren each had 4 children. See the problem with one? Kill me before I reproduce and bingo bango, numbers reduced.
There are 7.7 billion people alive right now.
More people are being born than die.
Granted, not every one is having children, some are having multiple children, some are having none.
The sad fact is, the numbers are not equaling out.
If they were, there would not be an issue.
Its not enough just to kill people.
Ya gotta kill them BEFORE they can reproduce and make more people.
How can that be morally justified using our current moral standards?
Thus, we are already extinct, we just don't know it yet.
Edited by
Tom4Uhere
on Fri 06/14/19 09:40 PM