Originally posted by AWingAndASigh
There've been numerous posts on ATS lately about the poor and the terrible things that should be done with them. There are also a large number of
posts about the cops and increasing violence committed by them. Crime is rising. We're at war. We're more uncaring about others in our
communities.
So I have to wonder what's making us so mean. Even if Republican policies were at it's root, that begs the question regarding what drives
Republican policies.
Could we be seeing issues related to population pressures? Someone told me once that preference for male children is a subconscious evolutionary
tactic to reduce populations. This attitude is most prevalent in countries like India and China, who also have the world's largest populations.
Populations in Mexico and the Southern Hemisphere are rising, and violence in those areas is growing. Drug cartels are becoming so out of control
that Mexico recently switched suppression of their activity from the police to the military. In addition, efforts to reduce illegal immigration into
the US is being met with increasing hostility.
I've often thought that war and violence are driven as much by subconscious populations pressures as they are geopolitical events.
These are just a few examples of recent changes in our world that could be related to burgeoning populations and reduced resources.
What effects do you see increasing populations having on world events?
We're not really getting meaner per capita. There's just more of us, so there's more problems in total. There has always been scarcity, there has
always been war, there has always been brutality by authority, and there has always been a lack of care for the poor. If anything, for the average
person, things are no worse, and often better than how the world has been for the past thousand years. There are more starving people, because there
are more people, and the solutions to their problems are no better than those implemented in the centuries before now.
Things will continue to stay about the same until either our problems begin to be solved, or we undergo a massive energy crisis and developed society
collapses.
