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RE: Are there too many people on this planet?
Smaller communities sounds great, but what of the multimillion person cities, to spread all those people out would require a significant amount of deforestation. Waste management does need to be addressed, how much is produced and how it is disposed of is not in the social consciousness. You are at the beginning of your learning, many have been learning, teaching, informing about the same subject areas for many decades, has anything g really changed? I think our time to make a significant change passed us by some years back.
You are right. We should have been making significant changes 30 years ago. I understand your realism and that does frighten me especially with our population due to double in probably 50 years. We need some kind of innovative technology....I'm hoping that the efforts in Quantum Mechanics and the Quantum Computer will get us there. Having more time to think and learn, I see a world where we need large cities running off energy-efficient, green tech. Cities that can support large amounts of people without large impacts to the environment or our health. Instead of having so many scattered towns, cities, etc, we have major cities. The rest is left for Nature to recover. To breathe. There are highways that are only meant to connect cities to cities. Those allowed to live outside of the cities have to live off the land. These are fantastical thoughts, but it's the imagination that leads to the future.