[TheOtherHobbes]

5-6 billion people are going to have their living standards and reproductive opportunities destroyed anyway.

If not worse.

But you're really just remaking the point that as a species we're incapable of intelligent collective management of our resources.

[selestify]

You are right. But good luck convincing those billions to voluntarily reduce their living standards. I fear change will have to come involuntarily.

[almostnormal]

>> No problem with this, apart from convincing like 5-6 billion people to cut their standards of living to half.

> 5-6 billion people are going to have their living standards and reproductive opportunities destroyed anyway.

The problem might be that those sets of people are not the same.

[concordDance]

Coordination problems are really really really hard. You shouldn't be dismissive about them.