Continuing....
I find it supremely ironic that the pro-life crowd are so small minded and indifferent about the degradation of life for all of us with their insistence on incessant breeding. To what end?
Here is another thought. and I quote another paragraph from the site you presented:
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"Are you hopeful?" I ask. Given that hope is a duty from which paleontologists are exempt, I'm surprised when he answers, "Yes, I am."
I'm not. My own guess about the midterm future, excused by no exemption, is that our Planet of Weeds will indeed be a crummier place, a lonelier and uglier place, and a particularly wretched place for the 2 billion people comprising Alan Durning's absolute poor. N"at will increase most dramatically as time proceeds, I suspect, won't be generalized misery or futuristic modes of consumption but the gulf between two global classes experiencing those extremes. Progressive failure of ecosystem functions? Yes, but human resourcefulness of the sort julian Simon so admired will probably find stopgap technological remedies, to be available for a price. So the world's privileged class that's your class and my class will probably still manage to maintain themselves inside HomerDixon's stretch limo, drinking bottled water and breathing bottled air and eating reasonably healthy food that has become incredibly precious, while the potholes on the road outside grow ever deeper. Eventually the limo will look more like a lunar rover. Ragtag mobs of desperate souls will cling to its bumpers, like groupies on Elvis's final Cadillac.
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In a way, this is already happening, more evident in the third world where poverty is there for all to see, yet industrial growth and commerce seems to be their "key to success", "the bridge towards a better place" and so on....
But what about security ? the walls surrounding homes are getting taller, body guards abound and kidnapping is the booming business of the poor. Ah yes, and then there are the drug lords that cater to ..."more advanced" societies in their hunger for drugs....
Indeed, every sperm is precious... continue on, like lemmings they march on .... not necessarily to extinction, but for a life worthy of street dogs.
Sorry for being so pessimistic on this subject, but the idiocy of the pro-lifers and the evidence at hand, can only yield the above scenario, as I said already taking place. |
