Date: 2013-11-23 07:45 am (UTC)
Of course nature does have one solution to this type of problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population)): "The consequence of overshoot is called a crash or die-off." In other words, let the bomb blow up in our face; let the exponential curves slam into natural limits that slap them back down, hard. That's the biggest reason why we don't want to adopt Gaia's solution to this problem: her prescription involves billions of people dying of hunger, thirst, and the associated resource wars, i.e. the very thing we most want to prevent. Sure, the remaining population will inherit a world with far fewer pressing global problems, but the loss of most high technology and the survivors' incalculable grief over all their dead relatives will probably render them utterly uninterested in seeing the bright side.
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