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Originally Posted by DevilsAdvocate
That is humorous. I have never owned a car and bicycle everywhere.
It is possible to provide for 11 billion people if we didn't need such resource intensive lives. Previous in this thread meat production was being discussed. One really easy way of reducing the amount of land we need is to reduce meat consumption. For cattle, you need to grown soybean or grain to feed them or huge tracts of grazing land. There is more than enough land for everyone to have a happy existence if we didn't need three cars, steak dinners and homes our grandparents would consider mansions.
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Truthfully, the problem is pretty simple to me. We're gluttons. I completely include myself in that, and I'm using "we" as in humans, but also just western society. We consume unreal amounts of food and drinks, but just buy everything constantly. And if those habits aren't enough, we want those things delivered to our houses on a whim at all hours of the day. "I feel like a Big Mac, but I don't want to bother going all the way there, so I'll just have someone make that and drive it to my house." It's unbelievable what we've become accustomed to!