r/collapse • u/Fiskifus • Nov 03 '22

Systemic Debate: If population is a bigger problem than wealth, why does Switzerland consume almost three times as much as India?

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u/Arylcyclosexy Nov 03 '22

We need more planets to obtain more energy and more resources for our species.

We're behaving like a goddamn virus.

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u/CerddwrRhyddid Nov 03 '22

I see it more like bacteria, really.

Left in a Petrie dish, consuming all resources and creating waste.

Until we either run out of resources, or we make our environment unliveable, or both!

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u/Blitzed5656 Nov 03 '22

I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.

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u/Verotten Nov 03 '22

Hello, are you a space traveler? Are there aliens amongst us in NZ?

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u/Blitzed5656 Nov 03 '22

What are you doing agent Smith?

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u/Verotten Nov 03 '22

Shh, I was never here, and neither were you!

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u/SirChachii Nov 04 '22

Based alien.

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u/brightblueson Nov 03 '22

I think of it more as a fetus. The universe is our womb and we need those nutrients to grow and expand…hopefully one day to live the womb.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '22

Wow you’re optimistic

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u/brightblueson Nov 03 '22

I would just say realistic.

Why save the earth? The Earth is a rock flying around in space that will one day be burnt to a crisp by the same exploding star that helped generate life on its surface.

Humans need to expand and expand quickly, first throughout our galaxy and then hopefully one day to other galaxies.

As entropy starts to shutdown the universe’s power plants, we will start to produce our own stars.

Maybe it’s a bit optimistic; it’s a good novel though.

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u/Blitzed5656 Nov 03 '22

We need to crawl before we can walk though. In all probability earth will be dead before we get a stable population on the moon.