Climate action goes way beyond consumption. Find the most effective actions within your current roles, and overcome barriers for you and others to take them.
How would you control the global population? What carrots and what sticks would you use to persuade and coerce people into a managed population level? This discussion tends to get into some very messy corners, because there’s just no properly ethical way to do it.
The earth is an incredibly bountiful place. If we were to stop using up its non renewable resources we would be fine. In terms of space, the population density of earth’s habitable land is about 50 people per square kilometre. Compare that with a dense urban area where it’s over 10,000 people per square kilometre. There’s enough space.
My argument is: yes there are problems with the human race, but attempting to artificially stem population growth is not the answer to them. Providing stable lives for the majority of people globally would be the right place to start.
How would you control the global population? What carrots and what sticks would you use to persuade and coerce people into a managed population level? This discussion tends to get into some very messy corners, because there’s just no properly ethical way to do it.
The earth is an incredibly bountiful place. If we were to stop using up its non renewable resources we would be fine. In terms of space, the population density of earth’s habitable land is about 50 people per square kilometre. Compare that with a dense urban area where it’s over 10,000 people per square kilometre. There’s enough space.
My argument is: yes there are problems with the human race, but attempting to artificially stem population growth is not the answer to them. Providing stable lives for the majority of people globally would be the right place to start.