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Three Choices


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Christians, I suppose, will avoid considering these 3 choices by pleading the Second Coming, but for the rest of us we should consider them. Read the whole artical here

 

We can-as a society-become aware of our dilemma and consciously make the choice not to add more people to our population. This would be the most welcome of our three options, to choose consciously and with free will to responsibly lower our population. However, this flies in the face of our biological imperative to procreate. It is further complicated by the ability of modern medicine to extend our longevity, and by the refusal of the Religious Right to consider issues of population management. And then, there is a strong business lobby to maintain a high immigration rate in order to hold down the cost of labor. Though this is probably our best choice, it is the option least likely to be chosen.

 

Failing to responsibly lower our population, we can force population cuts through government regulations. Is there any need to mention how distasteful this option would be? How many of us would choose to live in a world of forced sterilization and population quotas enforced under penalty of law? How easily might this lead to a culling of the population utilizing principles of eugenics?

 

This leaves the third choice, which itself presents an unspeakable picture of suffering and death. Should we fail to acknowledge this coming crisis and determine to deal with it, we will be faced with a die-off from which civilization may very possibly never revive. We will very likely lose more than the numbers necessary for sustainability. Under a die-off scenario, conditions will deteriorate so badly that the surviving human population would be a negligible fraction of the present population. And those survivors would suffer from the trauma of living through the death of their civilization, their neighbors, their friends and their families. Those survivors will have seen their world crushed into nothing.

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Unfortunately, I see choice number three as the most likely. As long as people are too stupid to use condoms, the population will continue to steadily increase. And what government regulations could possibly stem the tide? If you don't try hard enough, nothing will be accomplished, if you try to hard, the government will be overthrown, leading to the same problem as before. "But at least we never lost our ability to choose" will be the rationale for putting a stop to the actiouns which could have saved our existence.

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