[Flashpoint]

We are already overpopulated. For everyone on earth to eat like your average North American, we would need approximately 6 planets of Earth's size, with every square inch of arible land cultivated for food production.

Now, granted, we could easily stand to see most North Americans eat less. Myself included. But unless you are willing to cut your diet to 1/6th of it's current size (so one meal every 2 days), and stop popping out kids, there needs to an acknowledgement of one of two things.

We need better resource sharing between the first and third world (and why would we possibly want to do that when we can have Hummers, Big Macs, and Xbox 360's, and all they have to offer us in return is dirt, AIDS, and perhaps cheap manual labour).

We need less people (which isn't going to fly anywhere except maybe in China where the government can do pretty much whatever it wants, and has done so with the "One Child" policy).

A third potential option runs along the lines of "Soylant Green", and we'll see how long it takes for life to start imitating THAT lovely little piece of art.

Realizations like this are part of the reason I stopped watching "The Nature of Things". Too depressing. Maybe I am just a pessimist, but I see more mouths than we can feed in the world, and more interest in making money than in feeding people in the minds of those who hold power.


Hence - we are already overpopulated.