[QUOTE="GazaAli"]
Maybe we should stop wasting 1/3 of the world's food, spending gazillions of dollars on war and imperialist shit and allowing a handful of schmucks of owning heaps of money on the expense of the people. That would be a great start. Enough with the "depleting resources" and "overpopulation" BS...
EntropyWins
I don't disagree with any of your initial statements. But I don't understand why you think limited resources and overpopulation issues are BS?What do you think wars are fought over? Maybe limited resources? Food is one of many resources that are currently being wasted at an alarming rate by a percentage of our planet. A troubling trend for me though is that instead of us learning to consume less, we are teaching the rest of the world how awesome it is to consume and waste more.
The wealth disparity only exacerbates the issue.Honestly, I don't think most people mind that there are super wealthy people as long as we still are living decent lives, but if resources become more scarce and prices go up the rest of us will suffer while the wealthy still enjoy their gluttonous lifestyles then conflict is inevitable also.
So I guess I would like you to explain what you mean when you refer to those issues as BS.
I think of them as BS because in my opinion they're not real in the sense that they do have realistic, applicable and somehow straightforward solutions. There is an argument that the world is overpopulated and earth can no longer sustain the needs of its human population. This argument is BS because earth's resources are more than enough to sustain a reasonably comfortable and even luxurious life for its entire human population and possibly much more. If we are able to fund wars of ridiculously huge budgets and military spendings in the trillions of dollars then I can definitely say we're not facing a resources problem.
The way you're looking at the whole situation suggests that you think wars are being fought over resources because they're being depleted. I see the whole thing from an opposite angle. Resources are in short because of imperialist wars that do not serve the interest of the majority of earth's population. They only serve the interests of megalomaniac, egotistical minority and the interests of the super rich. In short, resources were more than enough then they became in shortage because of wars. Going by this arrangement, it does not make sense to say that we're fighting wars over resources per say.
I know some will yell at me "COMMUNIST" but I still don't understand why some people are allowed to own billions of dollars. What would they possibly do with all that money? They will never spend it, EVER, no matter how extravagant and gluttonous of lives they lead. On the other hand we have millions of people in serious need for a fraction of that money. A fraction of that wealth can change the lives of thousands if not millions of people in the blink of an eye. Yet they will most likely spend their lifetimes without getting a chance to a decent life. For fvck sake that is just screwed up. Some will say they earned it so they are entitled to the fruits of their labor. You must be completely out of touch with reality to actually believe that. They did not earn it, no one will ever be able to earn this much money. No one is capable of that its just not possible. It goes against what we know about the capacipty of the individual and the extent of his ability. The only possible explanation to the enormous wealth of the super rich is that they stole it one way or another. Maybe they stole it from the people, or from the state, or from other states it varies but the important part is that they did not earn it.
Imagine if this stolen wealth were to be released back to its rightful owners or those who deserve it, can you even begin to imagine how abundant resources will become?
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