[theandrewbailey]

Resource creation requires work, and technology increases the rate that resources can be created. More people means more available work and better technology. We aren't at the point where less people means more resources.

[ecoled_ame]

I don’t really believe that; it’s also weird how many people argue in favor of a larger population. And anyhow the resources I want most are space, peace, and silence - all of which increase with a smaller population.

[AnimalMuppet]

"I don't really believe that" is a pretty weak response to a post that had at least some logical argument in it.

> the resources I want most are space, peace, and silence - all of which increase with a smaller population.

Sure, it was great when you could just find a place you like, break out your axe, build yourself a cabin, and just live there. You still needed an axe, though. Even if you were a blacksmith, the iron came from someone else - several someone elses, in fact.

But that's not enough these days. Now you want a solar-powered cabin. Producing those solar panels takes people. And you want to not die in your cabin unnecessarily, so on occasion you need people like a good cardiologist.

Many of us want space, peace, and silence. We just don't want to live in the kind of world where we could get it, because we also want chunks of modern civilization available on demand.

[ecoled_ame]

a cardiologist brings little resource to my life if i can’t bring him in on a 100 mile horse drawn carriage ride to my estate before dawn to treat me before i get ready to teleport to my underground laboratory in new michigan for work in the morning.