Measles Is A Killer: It Took 145,000 Lives Worldwide Last Year

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8. It's not difficult to see how we got to 7+ billion people, and counting

Short term always takes precedence over the long term. It has to. That's how life works.

In the long term, educating women across the world and giving them access to more opportunities is the #1 option. However, until that goal is reached everywhere, everyone who is alive needs to stay alive, because as was said, every life is precious(every human life anyway).

To do either one of those though, educate women, keep everyone alive, will require more resources. More resources for us means less room for non-human life. Which is fine, except then we want it both ways. We feel sad about killing off some of the other species on the planet, but we can't save all of them and progress as a species ourselves.

The main reason that humans are changing the climate is because we don't die enough. I know, I know, I should kill myself. That's not what I'm talking about, as I'm not saying we should do this or that. All I'm saying is that it's a fact that the human animal does not die enough, in relation to how other forms of life do. We compound that by doing so much while we're alive. Then we compound that by, as someone else said in this thread, taking more and more of the risk out of life.

Our being conscious of death has gotten us to this point. Both good and bad. You can see that in the responses. More people are still being born than are dying, but there are still too many deaths. Because you can't just let people die. Short term always takes precedence over the long term, in every sphere of existence. That's why every solution leads to the next problem.