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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

The west is so comical! We so cherish personal freedom,
democracy, and liberty. We were so horrified when China instituted its
"one baby" policy. And yet I often see mention made of the undeniable
fact that, if China HAD NOT instituted such a policy, they would NOW be
in much deeper environmental and overpopulation trouble

It was only because they had the power of an absolute dictatorship
that China could succeed in enforcing what seems like such an inhumane
law.

Ecologists and environmentalists estimate that the planet earth could
comfortably support a population of ONE billion for an indefinite number of
centuries....

The earth did not reach a population of one billion until around 1860, and
yet by 1930, it had DOUBLED to TWO billion,.... and now it has
skyrocketed to SIX billion,... AND those ads for ADM (supermarket to the
world) project 20 billion by the year 2030.

Did it every occur to anyone that PARADISE, earthly paradise, IS
ALREADY within the grasp of mankind?? Whatever do I mean by this
strange statement??

Very simply this: If all 6 billion humans united and worked in harmony,
this very moment,..... and through self-control, abstinance... whatever
means (birth control, masturbation...whatever) ... if their goal was to
reduce the world population to ONE BILLION over the next 200 years...
SIMPLY by limiting reproduction. Then in a short 200 years... the earths population would be at a reasonable stable level from an environmental point of view.....

Now what do I mean by "earthly paradise is in our grasp".... I MEAN
THAT, AFTER THE EARTH HAD RETURNED TO THE ONE BILLION population
level,.....over the next 200 years.... technology, science, medicine, and a
united world democracy, would make EVERYONE independently wealthy,
and disease free.

It is very obvious to us , even now... that computers and robots and
modern technology makes possible a level of production (food and other
materials) which does not require such a work force as in previous
centuries... and CERTAINLY DOES NOT require the slave labor which was
employed so many times in history....

So, humanity has it totally within their power, to choose, to elect, to
transform human life into a paradise of wealth for all, free of disease...

But our own selfishness and greed, and our racial and ethinic prejudices
and nationalistic pride, will perhaps never allow us to co-operate with one
another, and to practice the personal asceticism and self denial, to
achieve such an end....

But even if humanity COULD manage to unite and discipline to create such
a UTOPIAN WORLD.... what would those people do with all their free time,
their leisure, their perfect health and incredible life spans extended by
genetic engineering and artificial organ transplants??

Would they write poetry and create works of art....???

Recite prayers and debate theology????

Or would they have too much sex, drink and smoke too much, and
become bored and depressed??

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