Humans have never depleted any natural resource.
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The reason is that in the past, the ratio of human population to the resources of the planet was low, but are the resources of the planet unlimited? Earth's resources are enough for how many people? A hundred billion? A trillion?
I have looked but never found any indication that the resources on Earth aren’t effectively unlimited. Water, oil, metals.
Tyrants do a great job of wiping out hundreds of millions every few centuries. There’s a good chance people are being exterminated right now. Natural resources running out should be the last of our worries.
My view is that if one is concerned about overpopulation, maybe stop artificially manipulating the natural order with welfare subsidies that try to overcome the survival of the fittest aspect of nature. The world would be far better off not having to wipe the asses of those who aren’t able to look after themselves, at the expense of those who can.
I have looked but never found any indication that the resources on Earth aren’t effectively unlimited. Water, oil, metals.
Tyrants do a great job of wiping out hundreds of millions every few centuries. There’s a good chance people are being exterminated right now. Natural resources running out should be the last of our worries.
My view is that if one is concerned about overpopulation, maybe stop artificially manipulating the natural order with welfare subsidies that try to overcome the survival of the fittest aspect of nature. The world would be far better off not having to wipe the asses of those who aren’t able to look after themselves, at the expense of those who can.
So you believe that it is better that the world's population is not controlled, and if a person is born in a poor country to poor parents, his suffering and poverty are his own and not our problem? But I think it is better to control the population of the world so that such people are not born at all and do not spend their whole lives in suffering.
It seems to me that you’re effectively arguing for a solution to a problem which is preventable in the first place.
I’m suggesting that if we didn’t have forced welfare programs and the like in the first place, that survival of the fittest would be a good enough self-regulating mechanism for the population. Many people who are poor only end up having kids because they know the state will provide them with money. It is an artificially created problem in modern society.
The decisions of others, provided they are not harming anyone else, should be none of our business.
