Unsustainable..... Thats What We Are....
Aug. 27th, 2011 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
passionpopOur population is not sustainable. Technology wont save us, nor will any God that may exist. We are leaving ourselves to the mercy of the decision makers and the dumbest in our population. They may appear to be one in the same, and in some cases they are but they decide the direction our society heads.
It is like a classroom, the class can only progress forward as fast as the slowest can manage. If the teacher moves things too fast, those who aren’t as quick get left behind and cannot learn the next step of where they are going. It is like trying to assemble a table when one of the legs is not complete, the entire thing cannot be completed, the entire class can not complete when there are those left behind, and those that don’t understand the unsustainability of our actions are dragging us all down.
The debate is that we need people to support people. I wont argue that when I am 75, someone needs to work to pay the taxes to sustain me, but do we have to put them into the population right now? We can still have people working in the population if we breed later. At eighty one can be the oldest of four unsustainable generations or one of three mildly more sustainable generations.
The more people we have, the more space we have to have for them, but it is not just the physical house that they live in, it is the space for the cows that feed them, the roads that move them and the stores that supply them. In the meantime we remove the trees and water ways that sustain us. How can this be sustainable?
It is said that the young create a spark for innovation, but when one is older one has a greater understanding of what exists, where the problems lie, where there are gaps and improve what we have rather than wastefully replacing something useful with something new and shiny.
I am not against humanitarian migration, and I know business isn’t either because lets face it, the money that the government gives them to establish themselves has to be used somewhere. I also believe the people in occupations within medicine and education should be encouraged to migrate here. Everyone else is another story.
We want to have the best educational facilities for us, therefore we need to attract the best students and educators. So we really are encouraging a transient population. As long as we can extract high taxes from education visitors, then they are not doing enough for us.
It is like a classroom, the class can only progress forward as fast as the slowest can manage. If the teacher moves things too fast, those who aren’t as quick get left behind and cannot learn the next step of where they are going. It is like trying to assemble a table when one of the legs is not complete, the entire thing cannot be completed, the entire class can not complete when there are those left behind, and those that don’t understand the unsustainability of our actions are dragging us all down.
The debate is that we need people to support people. I wont argue that when I am 75, someone needs to work to pay the taxes to sustain me, but do we have to put them into the population right now? We can still have people working in the population if we breed later. At eighty one can be the oldest of four unsustainable generations or one of three mildly more sustainable generations.
The more people we have, the more space we have to have for them, but it is not just the physical house that they live in, it is the space for the cows that feed them, the roads that move them and the stores that supply them. In the meantime we remove the trees and water ways that sustain us. How can this be sustainable?
It is said that the young create a spark for innovation, but when one is older one has a greater understanding of what exists, where the problems lie, where there are gaps and improve what we have rather than wastefully replacing something useful with something new and shiny.
I am not against humanitarian migration, and I know business isn’t either because lets face it, the money that the government gives them to establish themselves has to be used somewhere. I also believe the people in occupations within medicine and education should be encouraged to migrate here. Everyone else is another story.
We want to have the best educational facilities for us, therefore we need to attract the best students and educators. So we really are encouraging a transient population. As long as we can extract high taxes from education visitors, then they are not doing enough for us.