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Originally Posted by PKFFW
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 |
Truths in that as well -- the vast (brain)washed masses doing what the box in the corner tells them.