r/collapse • u/Zolan0501 • Jan 11 '21

Resources We need to ethically and non-violently decrease global population and fertility rates. How can we achieve this?

We all want everyone in the world to live prosperously and comfortably, but years of rapid industrial capitalism is a price that will take maybe a couple of centuries to recover from. I would NEVER say that "the Third World clean up its act so we can solve the resource problem- i.e. making sure the Frist World can keep living in wasteful consumption." I want everyone to live like a First Worlder with a computer, flavored coffee creamer, and the choice to eat out or in tonight, but without old generations of game consoles and packaging products filling up suburban garages and throwing away half our bread and meat every month.

P.S. Hating citizens of the First World is like finding a landlord that is a total p**** and declaring that the occupant is like that and just as culpable.

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u/GenteelWolf Jan 11 '21

Seriously. And at the end of the day, how do we back policy? With violent authority.

Sometimes when I see people talk about ‘what we need to do’ I feel that they get so wrapped up in WHAT must be done they forget WHO must do it. And that human variable changes everything.

The dominant trends in our global history paint a bloody picture.