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Originally Posted by sendler
I'm shooting for a viable and rich human society sharing a diverse planet Earth in 100 Million years.
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In the mid time frame, our decisions that we make in the next 20 years will determine the level of misery they must endure in order to coast back down to a sustainable population of a couple Billion 2-500 years from now. If we did everything as best as possible, it might be pretty painless. But there is so much momentum and tradition against this even at the evolutionary level of our limbic systems. Constant growth. It's who we are. hopefully we will become truly sapient and change to deserve our name.
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If there are too many people, the earth will sort it out eventually. Disease/fire/war etc etc will spread most quickly in the densely populated areas, which are the main contributors to the problems you have in the first place.
We have a nice diverse gene pool right now. Nature will eventually sort out the ones who are weak. Its a matter of time. How much time? Nobody knows, but the planet will destroy humans beyond recovery before we destroy the planet beyond recovery.
Keep doing your rain dances, though. Its cute, and its natural. All societies have created boogiemen to fear, worship, and/or manipulate the masses with.