The T-Rex in the Room
If there ever was a T Rex in the room, human population size and the obvious need to manage it is it. We have never heard leadership in any country other than China mention anything about doing something about it. Even our most environmentally conscious politicians will praise advances in environmental protection but hardly ever a word about the root cause. Why is that?
It’s not due to intelligence. One need not be smart to notice that there’s a T rex in the room. It’s the fact that any politician who might allude to population control would no longer be a functioning politician the next week. Who is it that would destroy them for this? Wall Street, big business, those only worried about their own wealth and retirement, perhaps women’s rights groups (it’s my womb), people worried about possible inhuman ideas such as reducing population forcibly, maybe some religions, people worried this might result in human population engineering (only the rich can reproduce), etc. If we can get this conversation started then we’re sure to find out who they are.
Why Wall Street? Well, there’s a saying in business – grow or die. How will the stock markets grow and the banks get rich if there are less people to buy pork products thus affecting pork futures? How will it affect the sales of everything if there are fewer consumers to spend thus affecting the size and stock value of all those businesses? What will happen to the housing market when new houses are less needed? Here is where we have faith: we have faith that the smart financial and business minds on our planet will figure how to manage a very slowly, methodically, predictably, shrinking market and keep it healthy and from crashing. Sure, it will perhaps be harder for the wealthiest 1% to get even more filthy rich during this period but so be it – they will be just fine; let us not worry about them and instead focus on what really matters.
As for worries about population shaping, if most all governments adopt these policies there should not be any worry of one country or one religion or one ethnicity from gaining some form of advantage. Whatever the breakdowns are today they should remain about on ratio less any change caused by mate selection (ie: if an Asian and an African married). In fact, it may be an improvement over what we see today as the bulk of the population increase is coming from areas of poverty where education is not readily available and women are not given opportunities beyond mothering children. Countries with educated and empowered women are not the ones growing the fastest today, therefore, are we not currently shaping our future population by doing nothing?
Those opposing this common sense, whomever they may turn out to be, will likely take the usual means of trying to convince others that the simple logic of it is somehow not relevant. That science will somehow fit 20 pounds or more of eventual sugar into the 2 pound sack. Don’t fall for anyone selling you on faith what you can plainly see is otherwise. Others will take the simple math and make it convoluted and trigonometric in an attempt to baffle. There’s no need to make this difficult and anyone who tries is simply selling snake oil – so unless you have a snake which needs oiling kindly don’t buy what they’re pitching.
In case taking on the world’s powers that be turns out to be easy (it won’t), rising to this challenge will also require for us to go against the very meaning of life as we know it – not grow as quickly as able. Life grows; life divides and reproduces – single cellular, multi cellular and even incomplete cellular (virii) – every living cell, every living creature has billions of years of doing this one thing over and over and over and yet we must learn control over that else fail. The very idea of population control is disgusting to most anyone and on a myriad of levels as it goes against everything that life on this planet is, everything that every civilization and religion has promoted – and yet it’s the test we have received.
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For example, our scientists today are working on means by which to reduce the amount of methane produced by herbivores. They exhale large amounts of it; enough to be sizeable contributors to climate change. The reason for this is due to the human population’s growth requiring a growth in the number of food animals. Bless these fine men and women for wanting to save the world but they have the cart before the cow as it were. Gas masking our food herds may help some but not for long if we keep increasing the herd size to feed our growing population. It, like every other plan is born to fail if the root cause is not addressed and we continue to increase in number. To be fair, masks are only one idea being looked into for the problem of methane produced by herbivore livestock but they all share the common problem of inevitable failure from unending growth in the populations.