Comment Re:and... (Score 1) 299
Batteries is not the answer to everything, in fact they are merely a distraction.
Likewise recycling is not the answer to everything, it is a distraction.
Technology is also not the answer, it is a distraction.
Consume less.
Waste less.
Reuse more.
I'm all about conservation, but in the end, it is every bit as much a distraction as that stuff you don't like.
Because in all conservation efforts, the end is people using so little resources that it is effectively zero.
While I suppose you don't believe that, tell me, what is the amount of conservation of materials that compensates for population increase?
Let's say we all use 10 percent less of something. Let's say water.
Each new person on earth then uses up water to the same level the rest of us are using, which is 90 percent of what we used before.
So for every new person, how many people's savings in water have been used by this new person?
So we have to reduce all that much the next year, then the year after that, and on and on. Eventually no one uses any water.
That's easy enough.
Consumption = #consumers * avg consumption per consumer.
When I said consume less, it applies to both factors at the macro level, and at each consumer at the micro level.
So yes, eventually, one needs to make less babies.
Which again, one should encourage policies that tend to reduce overpopulation.
Wealth tends to cause smaller families .
More education causes smaller families.
Atheism etc.
Family planning (no more catholic church throwing hissyfits about condom prevention)
The stone age pension plan of producing many offsprings so that they can care for you in old age is going out of style. In some countries they are plagued with both pests: A very powerful catholic church that is aggressively against prevention ( it is political suicide to go against the church), and a large impoverished population that still uses the stone age pension plan.
Will the world eventually need to re-introduce Mao's 1-child plan?
Politically that is not likely nor very humane, so those who care for the future existence of humanity need to work on the known factors that can prevent overpopulation.