What a lovely concept for a Dystopia.
Some people aren't born to be blessed with tragedy in their blood.
are you excited for humanity to probably wipe itself off of the face of the planet lol
I'm pretty over it honestly, we've been fueling coal into the doomtrain for longer than we've been alive. What remains interesting however is watching them constantly reinvent how to do it.
Humanity though has a lot of tenacity even in it's dumber expressions, so we might outlast further than we give ourselves credit.
Ever read Transmetropolitan? It's a pretty convincing model for where we're liable to end up.
if a new species takes the place of humans but are better at surviving and thriving on earth than we are I wonder what it would be like
I'd imagine us blending into and becoming more like it overtime until it becomes harder to tell the two apart. Also as machines prove able to find answers we could never find, I'd imagine people splitting pretty heavily into two camps of thought.
what are your plans to survive the coming depopulization agenda? do you have one?
That depends on if it does or doesn't target my demographics.
how do you feel about becoming less and less human and more like a transhuman robot?
That depends on how we respond to the changes psychologically.
Deus Ex has posed quite a few possible ideas, including Augmentation Psychosis, while the show Ghost in the Shell shows how society could be once we get past the building block stages (with literal cyber brains we can download into).
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I'm surprised you know of such a thing. I find myself agreeing with most of it's points, my only real issue is it's first point. I don't see it as that necessary. I believe if we are big enough and have enough resources to sustain more than 500,000,000, then sure, as long as it's in balance with nature, and we have the resources for it.
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I'm surprised you know of such a thing. I find myself agreeing with most of it's points, my only real issue is it's first point. I don't see it as that necessary. I believe if we are big enough and have enough resources to sustain more than 500,000,000, then sure, as long as it's in balance with nature, and we have the resources for it.
How many people do you figure would have us remain "in balance with nature"?
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I'm surprised you know of such a thing. I find myself agreeing with most of it's points, my only real issue is it's first point. I don't see it as that necessary. I believe if we are big enough and have enough resources to sustain more than 500,000,000, then sure, as long as it's in balance with nature, and we have the resources for it.
How many people do you figure would have us remain "in balance with nature"?
I can't be certain of that, but I certainly don't believe overpopulation is an issue we are facing anytime soon. There's enough food, there's enough resources for everyone on this planet so far. The problem is distribution.
I don't entirely subscribe to Malthusian line of thinking.
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A lot of the US's food practices anyway are more of a matter of excess and poor practices in storage and distribution. It is true that we can feed ourselves even as a humble dumpster diver these days...
...but how good is us existing in our current form for the planet? We've created a self-contained balance of a sort (with corporate interests steering cultures of addictions and labor to some strange places), but that doesn't necessarily conform to nature's needs.
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A lot of the US's food practices anyway are more of a matter of excess and poor practices in storage and distribution. It is true that we can feed ourselves even as a humble dumpster diver these days...
...but how good is us existing in our current form for the planet? We've created a self-contained balance of a sort (with corporate interests steering a culture of addictions to some strange places), but that doesn't necessarily conform to nature's needs.
Well, I don't speak just on america, I'm speaking of modern day capitalism and how much it's advanced. Overproduction is an inherent issue with Capitalism, and it applies to any commodity created by Capitalism. Not just food. Here's a simple example I'd use. Say there's 100 customers looking for say, 1 apple each. In said market for apples, you have three different companies. Each company is going to look at those customers, and make 100. So, now you have an excess of essentially 200 apples. Typically if a business cannot make a profit off of a good because there's no more consumers, they'll destroy it.
In regards to modern day human balance of nature. I'd say it's capitalism that is harming and disrupting the balance of nature with various things like in china, how businesses will poach endangered species because of their value as a delicacy, or how companies in third world nations will chop down and destroy forests, for room, and for wood.
If you place the motive of your society as the means of ever growing profit, then you're not creating a society that will necessary care or be reasoned with. We saw in the 1800s, the ruthlessness of Capitalism, and how state intervention was necessary to bust monopolies, and improve living standards for workers and such.
In regards to overproduction, here is a piece I very much enjoy. 
One big problem with Capitalism that is linked with overproduction I'd say tends to be a falling rate of profit.
Both tend to go hand in hand as Capitalism must expand it's markets, it must gather more new resources and aquire cheaper labor. We see this in the case of multi-national corporations making use or cheap labor in third world countries. You can say "oh how nice of them to give them jobs" but they are paid very little, and can barely live off of it.
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This issue's a bit more than just a "Capitalist" one, although them stopping the production of better options to keep themselves afloat when the time comes doesn't help (like the drama behind the electric car)...
What human practice wouldn't harm the environment within our current population count though?
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