If you think the earth is dying because poor people are having too many babies, that's about three logical steps away from ecofascism.
If you think the earth is dying because poor people are having too many babies, that's about three logical steps away from ecofascism.
As we learned with climate change, the best time to take action on global issues is decades before they're "here and now" problems. If this is even on the horizon we should be talking about it as if it should be addressed immediately, because waiting until we need drastic action right away (i.e., where we are now with climate change) risks cataclysm.
Say you had a magic wand that could reshape the world's economy, resource distribution, political structure, etc. You eliminate excessive consumption and give everyone on the planet at least a decent standard of living. Say the planet's carrying capacity at this level of per capita consumption is 16 billion -- just over double the current global population. Are we better off talking about how to humanely stay within that environmental limit today, or in 50 years when the population is 15 billion?
We can talk about it all we want now, but we can not do anything about it and capitalist society never will. The question is a great hypothetical but irrelevant in application because no pattern of consumption will remain intact