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Originally Posted by kennyc
In fact (at least IMHO) that's one of best things that could be done to help. It's really overpopulation that is at the heart of many of our environmental problems.
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More specifically it is over-
consumption as opposed to over population.
If we weren't all brainwashed into believing everyone needs their very own car or two, a motorbike for weekend fun, big screen tv, dvd player, holiday house, boat, yearly overseas holiday, new clothes every 6 months to keep up with the fashions, hair and makeup products coming out the wah-zoo, so much jewellery we can't wear it all, 2 Xboxes(modded or unmodded!
) and a playstation for each kid, etc etc etc then there would easily be enough to go around with plenty left over and no real issue with resources.
Of course a predominantly capitalist world economy couldn't work without excessive and ever increasing consumption. Ergo, we blame over population for the problems of excess, believing that with fewer people there wouldn't be a problem, rather than over consumption. Of course there would still be a problem with the life style, it just may not have manifested yet.
Cheers,
PKFFW