Comment Re:scarcity (Score 1) 686
Just like cattle overgrazing a field, humans have become more and more of a risk to their own existence. If there were fewer humans, we would have many fewer problems.
I think you are rather optimistic. If that was the only problem, we should have nothing to worry about since abundance results in a lower birth rate. The problem isn't how many humans there are... abundance ends up making folks who enjoy it increasingly self-indulgent and useless. The American diet is probably a better example of that than it is of "cattle overgrazing a field". In this case, they aren't destroying the field, you see, they are destroying themselves.
