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Ever since we broke the 7 Billion population that line at the end really hits home. We need to control our population growth or the environment , ourselves included, are doomed.
INTO MONETARY SPAAACEEE!
SPPAAAACCEEE!
VIVA AFRICA MADRE TIERRA!!!!!!!!
@CreedOfHeresy
Congratulations! I’m a recent de-convert myself.
@flyingtomato1000 she is not incorrect in saying that we’ve flung our machines into space – that’s called poetic license.
We are the organs of our mother Earth, and Her the cell of another. The breathers of life, the particles of thought, constructs of the microcosm experiencing all experiences if only we chose to see them. The person is the billions needed to make the organ function participate in sentience.
@handplanty I see your point, very well then, but another reason she is incorrect is because we didn’t fling anything into interstellar space, we launched it.
@handplanty we’ve put machines on Mars. You missed something.
I’m addicted to this song.
@flyingtomato1000 Neither low earth orbit and the moon are interplanetary, at least not in my opinion. Or did I miss something?
@zptramel
i wish a lot people (creationist) would have your open mind
Humanity has come so far indeed
Is it weird that watching these videos and seeing all the amazing things that have happen makes me believe in a greater force even more?
@MetastasisVideos hahaha
I was gonna put them all, youtube wrd count is rude
@handplanty yes we have
not quite true, we haven’t sent humans to interplanetary space yet, only machines.
@Mirewood yep… too bad this world is bursting at the seams with short term solutions.
@Pigziggy Both Old and New Testament. Used to be a Christian, and then I shook the indoctrination. It is a wonderous feeling. You oughta try it.
@ZeroPermission “Free will is not meant to be controlled.” –> I’m not sure of the relevance of this statement. Are you suggesting that if we’re educated to more sustainable lives we’re limiting free will by making it harder to live un-sustainably? Couldn’t I say with the same logic that having laws to stop murder and exploitation is bad because It effects our choices?
I don’t see how this logic is at all relevant, or how it even makes sense. Am I misunderstanding something?
@ZeroPermission
Some of this will be involving incentives to be more sustainable, and meaningful relationships with “penalties” for those who don’t (such as a tax, or changes in policy that make it harder to be unsustainable).
@ZeroPermission Eugenics – the science of “improving” a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
I’m not saying we should select and control breading, but we obviously have to change our behaviours if we’re going to sustain humanity on earth without compromising the environment, or exploiting others so we can “live better”
@MetastasisVideos Its really a matter of short term vs. long term thinking.
In the short term we often think of quick fix “solutions”, which end up only treating symptoms opposed to the actual problem.
For instance: you can bail a sinking boat all you want, but until you address the hole, the problem will remain.
@Mirewood I have wondered that myself. Sure you can control the population by killing people off, but that would mean that you have temporarily solved the problem and would eventually have to kill again. Instead, you could increase education (especially female education, as increased female education generally leads to lower birth rates) and help bring developing and less developed countries into the technology fold to cause global birth rates to level off.
@zptramel Nice post, but how dare you forget the Yoda video sir?
@inthetearoom Yeah, Young earth creationist bunks
@Pigziggy
The bible is a fraud, not made by god, but made by lunatics that wish to exploit people like you and me. I am glad that a lot of people and i have abandon our believe in a deity, one of the best decision humanity have ever made. Yet there are still people like you. I respect your decision but yet at the same time pity you knowledge.