Here’s a tough thought that I have been analyzing. It’s quite drastic and not something I personally support, but here it is:
What if we let natural selection do its job and let the poor, war-stricken, and starving people die? It sounds terrible, I know, but bear with me.
The world is overpopulated and is becoming increasingly stripped of sufficient resources to feed and care for its people. Many geographical areas do not have the food and water its inhabitants need, so many of these areas rely on support provided by wealthier and more resource-rich nations.
When support flows in from wealthier countries, people in the very poor areas can manage to delay otherwise inevitable death. They then can continue to reproduce and even more people are born into extreme poverty. However, the problem of having no resources and means of caring for their families and communities does not go away. Instead, what we end up with is an even bigger number of people who cannot live without the help of outside resources.
We can send as much food, water, and medicine to these nations. All that will happen is they become healthy enough for long enough to reproduce. Food only lasts until it’s eaten. Medicine only lasts as long as it’s used. Whatever supplies are sent to these people are only bandaids slapped over a huge wound that is slowly getting worse and infected.
Without any aid whatsoever, many people living in extreme poverty would die of hunger, thirst, or disease. The earth’s population would be reduced to a more manageable level. If it was up to nature, that’s what would happen. It is nature’s way of taking care of itself.
Nature knows how to keep itself in balance. It’s been doing it for countless years before humans decided we would “help” keep the balance. Since we started intervening in nature’s cycles and natural selections, the environment has become chaotic. We’re struggling to provide for all people, against the will of the environment, and against the way nature has been working forever.
What happens when we disrupt nature’s perfect cycle? Disaster. I think that’s where many people would agree we’re headed, if we’re not there already.
Like I said before, I cannot morally agree to letting a third (or more) of the world’s people die out. However, the positive global and environmental outcomes it could produce are undeniable.
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