Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[jackvance]

The powers that be are completely leftist though. You'd be violating the reigning dogma which states that if anyone's at fault for people being hungry, it's the west for not helping them enough.

Unless Elon Musk succeeds in making us an interplanetary species real soon, something gotta give though. We're ravaging and overpopulating the planet pretty badly.

"After what will henceforth be known as the Great Outage of 2018, the internet and the global media are finally back online after one year of shutdown. By universal decree the events that transpired shall never be investigated but we are pleased to announce that the world population is now back down to a comfortable 800 million. Please proceed with your lives as normal. Jobs are now voluntary, if you do not wish to work, funds are made available and please register for your personal AI drone to take care of you. If you have not yet received your DNA regulating chip implant, you have 3 weeks time to comply. All hail your Corporate Overlords."

[Renton]

We're ravaging and overpopulating the planet pretty badly.

I don't agree. I think overpopulation is only a problem in local areas. Pollution is necessarily a big problem but a higher population might have a counter-intuitive effect on pollution. I believe the more human minds that are born, the more chances there are for great people who will have ideas about how to solve our big problems. Also, the more population there is, the more incentive there will be to have an agricultural revolution. We have ways of producing food and energy in sustainable ways, there just isn't yet enough economic pressure for those ways to compete with the dirty methods.