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Are you nuts? In my determination to drag myself, and you, out of the death trap of confirmation bias, I have come across very many people who are seriously freaked about the need to depopulate Gaia. Mostly bliss ninnies with discretionary income. I would think, actually, that bliss ninnies would be more apt to see the sense in it instead of less, but... my impulse here is wrong.
I finally mustered myself to bring this up with one of them... ask what is so awful about wanting to lower the population in a non-genocidal way... and she shot back that we have all the technology to support everyone and so there is no need. This was a somewhat stultifying response because, yes, it seems we do, but we're not using it, and, further, they seem willing to kill everyone who starts to get traction in bringing it to the world, and, further still, the amount of time to get it instituted is way too long, even if we could get on it this very minute.
The cities have lethal air. The lakes and streams and oceans are getting more toxic by the day. Nobody has nuked Monsanto. Medical clinics are more like meat packing plants than anything remotely like centers for healing. None of our institutions are anything close to manageable on a human, a personable, scale. The word "community" is almost completely abstraction. The term "lonesome highway" has taken on a dreamlike quality.
And she thinks intergalactic dust is going to fix this?
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