<div dir="ltr">It goes smack in the face of the typical 20/30 year old soon-to-be breeder that his or her<br>lifestyle is causing, by a small increment, the destruction of the planet. No consumer/voter <br>will implement population checks, until the issue has escalated to a lot worse than it is now. <br>
Even then, countries with biggest problems tend to be countries with religious extremism, <br>authoritarianism and rather inadequate democracies. Can you see a terminally overpopulated<br>Saudi Arabia implement a two child per couple policy? <br>
<br>It just doesn't sink in that the more people you have, the less each individual is worth. <br>Having an excess of cheap, desperate individuals means cheap labour, which is in the<br>interest of those in power, or those with money. This is a conundrum that can not be<br>
resolved with current science and current democracies. Nobody will address it, except<br>for a few with vision, and they will be scorned in return. Voters will shrug, add another<br>c'loaf to the sweltering horde as easily as they use plastic bags when shopping. <br>
<br>This issue will only be resolved if suddenly our anticipated lifespans go up by a century <br>and we have to start imagining how the world will be by then. Right now it is just to easy<br>to leverage hidden costs over the fence into the neighbor's pond, or dump the costs of<br>
resource depletion, irreversible environmental decay, species extinction or overpopulation<br>to your grand-children's world because you don't have to live in that shit. <br><br>My single best argument we need immortality treatments in the 7/11 NOW. Once people<br>
have to face consequences they'll change their tune really fast. I see no other way to <br>resolve many of our problems. <br><br></div>