/lit/ - Literature

>>16752574
I never advocated for increasing numbers of people and I disagree with your pessimist outlook, though stabilizing our current trajectory is going to take serious social changes in the next 100 years. You might be happy to know that as climate change sets in the upper middle class in developing nations who form the basis of our human intelligence capital will be the safest from any sort of “collapse”. Whether that’s any consolation for the millions in developing nations that are going to starve, you be the judge.
>>16752660
And? We can easily sustain our current global population while conserving the rest of the environment if we get our act together on renewables/agriculture and stop wasting so much.
>>16752868
Thanks for the in depth reply. That’s definitely a valid critique, and I wonder if to sustain a community like the Amish you need something like religion.
I think it could still be argued that these are natural symptoms of greater population densities. I’m from Canada also (maritimes), and if you drive across the country you can sort of see the sliding scale of community when going from rural town to mega city. There are deep roots of culture and history in our literature and stories that I don’t see coming out of somewhere like modern day Toronto. The place might as well be another American city. You could compare Montreal and Quebec City also but maybe I’m going a bit off topic here as Quebec has a much different cultural context.