Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
Well, the ideal is for people to live and thrive for generations without fucking up the environment for future generations. No one said anything about "pacification" of the masses. Again, you keep trying to enforce some paranoid vision of a communist takeover based on an aversion to a simple, logical analysis of what a total industrializes nation has wrought upon the very land we depend on to survive. Once you create an artificial environment, you create artificial results. Our technology/industrial based society gives us the illusion that people can have as many kids as they want without reprocussions. NOTE THAT I'M NOT SAYING THAT OVER-POPULATION WOULDN'T EVENTUALLY HAPPEN IN AN AGRARIAN BASED SOCIETY(which does NOT mean throwing out capitalism, or industry), but the rate of population growth would be more in ratio as to what the earth could provide.
1) I consider criticism of property rights and ownership to be an indication of tyranny. A that, my friend, smacks of an attitude found in fascists gov't...where NO criticism on any level is tolerated. Again, I did NOT advocate a dismantling of property rights or the concept of ownership...I merely pointed out that the EXACT same formula brought over from Europe ends up with the same results....pollution, over-population of the land.
2) While pollution is far greater, there are actually more trees standing in the US today than there were in 1776. What? Was that do to natural occurence or through artificial means (transplanting)? And are taking into account the urbanization (major cities and suburbs) that now sits in areas once rambling with meadows or forests and streams? Sorry to inform you, but in Manhattan you can see works of art from a century ago that depict what parts of that city use to look like...and it puts a serious crimp in your statement. Deforestation may be occurring in Brazil, and other parts of the world, but it is not something we can really do anything about. Sorry to inform you, but the deforestation in Brazil is a direct result of demands from certain types of wood and such from outside countries, INCLUDING THE USA. Like it or not, we contribute to the bad policies of that country.
3) I actually don't think over-population would occur naturally in an agrarian society, because lack of scientific and technological progress would ensure a lower quality of life, and less access to underdeveloped medicines, etc. Not quite....look at the great societies of South America, who were destroyed not so much by famine but by their warring ways and over-extension of their empires. As I said, it would occur, but on a much slower rate. Remember, agrarian does NOT mean a total absence of technology (industrial and medicinal), or the development of such. Case in point, look at China. The reason why the populations of India and China are able to occur is a result of Western influence, such as volumes of bioengineered wheat to people in India (who would otherwise die of mass starvations) and the advances China has seen in the past 20 years, becoming a world power.
You're wrong....China and India had VAST empires centuries before the Europeans came to the point of developing certain medicines. Dynasties came and went, knowledge gained and lost. To date, much Chinese traditional medicine does what "modern" Euro-Western medicine can't...and visa versa.