I don’t get this whole business about the economy, and money, and finance, and how it all works that there are people out of work when there is, apparently, lots of work that needs to be done to get from where it is now to the utopian paradise, the land of the Eloi but I mean without the whole
Utopia
being a food supply for the Morlocks part; how there can be hunger on a planet where the food literally comes up out of the ground, where sweet vitamins grow on the trees, where giant herds of meat roam the pastures and the seas are swimming with fish; how there can be such poverty in a rich world.
It is a rich world. It provides all the food and fresh water we need, all the building materials and cloths, all the beaches for swimming and slopes for skiing and trees for climbing and grapes to crush and make wine and wonderful, wonderful cannabis to smoke and even mushrooms and other plants that will make you see visions. It is a world of plenty, easily capable of providing for 7 billion people. Even 10 billion.
Energy, raw energy, is beating down on it for half of every day, bathing half the earth in heat and light from the largest energy source in the solar system at any given time. Energy is burning under our feet. This business of burning nasty, smoky fossil fuels for everything is so unnecessary.
And science is advancing all the time.
So it just doesn’t make sense to me that the world has the problems that it does. I fail to believe that such a bountiful planet and such an amazing technology as we have has so far failed to bring about universal comfort and luxury.
I don’t know who is in control of the world – The Masons, the Rothschild’s, the Elders of Zion, the Illuminati, the Dutch East India Company, the Texas Oil Men, the Saudi Sheikhs or the Federal Reserve – but whoever it is, I am more and more convinced that the powers that be are not simply unable to fix the economy. They are unwilling. They are deliberately keeping the world poor.
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Perhaps the earth can sustain a super-exponentially increasing population and perhaps not but an overcrowded planet would not (does not) resemble utopia in any way. Read any social psych studies on overcrowding? We already have the means to resolve the problem, we just aren’t using it effectively. Statistics regarding unintended pregnancies show that empowerment of women (overcoming religious/political agendas) while making birth-control devices easily available (free!) to all would do wonders for the planet.
Worldwide, nearly 40% of pregnancies are unintended (some 80 million unintended pregnancies each year). An estimated 350 million women in the poorest countries of the world either did not want their last child, do not want another child or want to space their pregnancies, but they lack access to information, affordable means and services to determine the size and spacing of their families…..
In the United States, in 2001, almost half of pregnancies were unintended.
A world where unintended pregnancies don’t exist is far more utopian than an overcrowded one. This one little fix would do wonders for poverty, malnourishment, starvation, environmental damage, crime, etc., etc.
Hi, Devil’s Advocate, I think we agree on more than you think. I’m totally in favor of free contraception everywhere, just put them in all the hotel rooms, a pack on your seat when you board a train, passed out at assembly in high school.
But even if we can ignore the howls of the Christian righteous and slam on the brakes right this second, we’re likely to have a few more years of increase just from raw inertia.
So, it makes sense to plan for an infrastructure, a social and economic civilization which can sustain 10 billion people or so, and simultaneously work to reduce the population, than the other way around.