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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Yeah, we lifted tons of people out of extreme poverty, leading to not only an explosion in the world population, but also a rapid increase in the average consumption of resources per person, and pollution per person. As a result, we're in the process of turning our one and only home into an uninhabitable wasteland. On a geological timescale, we're doing this in a blink of an eye. You can't, and I mean you just can't explain this away by waving in front of our faces how bad people had it 100 years ago.
Sure, people all over the world live much better today than their counterparts from 100 years ago did. But this ignores two very important points: 1) there are still egregious injustices that continue to persist into modern times, and 2) this relatively good state that we're living in will slip away from us soon, due to the unavoidable climate catastrophe that has already begun, and will only get worse from here.
The irony here should not be lost on you... it's largely because of our consumerist society and modern lifestyles that we've created the situation that will likely do us in. Does this mean that humanity is completely doomed? Not necessarily. While major calamity is already baked into our near future, outright extinction is not. We can avoid the worst case scenario by taking major steps now to move away from fossil fuels and toward green energy.
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I agree with some of your points - but I don't think there is much correlation between wealth and population growth.
Its not like China and the US are seeing huge population growth.