Laying Blame: Population vs. Consumption

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19. Population vs Consumption, ...

Both make our future unlivable. Technology has helped stretch the existence a couple of centuries, but sustainability passed, with retrospective vision, 1900 or so, give or take a few decades.

The consumption of the 'first world', ... duh ... are you typing on a computer and driving to the market, ... is ridiculous; if we chose to allow the second and third worlds, to reproduce as they did. If you need a tongue and cheek 'smily', stop reading now.

The fact the reproduction 1950 - 1990 was allowed to happen after we knew better, then exercising the audacity of 'two cars in every garage', (Eisenhower), only to be upstaged by two family earners to ensure more consumption (Reagan), then globalization to ensure the low cost per item of consumption, (Clinton), then the relaxation of credit rules to allow the middle and lower classes mountains of debt, to consume more, (Bush 2) !!! Excuse me, but we knew enough to stop the charade long before just a generation in the past.

Our scientists have known the problems we face for many decades. In the 1950's warning of the CO2 blanket were surprisingly accurate. Population as a problem, has been noted in our best Universities since the 50's - 60's, MIT and others. Scientific studies could not impress the politics of consumption and profit. Say what you will, say what you may, ... we knew. It was profitable to ignore and the silent acquiesce derived from the middle class aphrodisiac of the comfort of consumption, trumped the science and our collective common sense; delivering us to rewarding greed while nurturing ignorance.

If your are typing on a computer and drive a car, blame your parents, then yourself, then your refusal to capitulate, here and now, to what is needed; no more fossil fuels, no more cars, no more computers, ... no lights after dark.

We are all guilty, of snuffing out our future, it is in our genetics; demonstrated by our instincts, our social learning, our desires, and our actions; even after we know the consequences, of the next sentence we type.