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    Default Re: We might be killing ourselves much faster than "climate science" suggests

    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    More relevantly, who's going to enforce all this, and on what authority?
    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    And just how will you get the non-Western and non-techno cultures to adopt this policy?
    Two words: Orbital lasers!

    No, seriously, of course that is hard, but there is also another dimension to this. Which is that the West/Developed world consumes most of the resources and does most of the damage anyway. Lowering consumption in countries that hardly consume despite a much bigger population is not going to help a lot. And developing them to our standard of consumption in the hopes of controlling their population through that may just end the planet before the plan gets anywhere.

    Hoping for a magic technological breakthrough, well, we could also decimate the population with mandatory russian roulette if we're going to gamble.

    So no, I don't have a solution ready, just a goal of sorts. And if the ultimate goal is that we and our children survive and don't bash eachother's heads in over rare apples one day, perhaps we can agree on that last one at least.
    I mean it would be nice to have some food in the future, wouldn't it?

    Perhaps the EU and US should end subsidies for farming and let food markets return to actual competition, giving farmers in other countries a real chance to compete again and leading consumers to appreciate their terribly expensive food once more so they reduce food waste?
    Last edited by Husar; 10-22-2017 at 00:05.


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