miabella
02-24-2008, 04:13 AM
you can't sustain a population if not enough children are born to maintain and continue the population. doesn't work for animals, won't work for people.
most eco-worship (and it is religious belief, quite explicitly) boils down to consumerism glossed up as 'sustainability', with a side bonus of classism and racism to berate people with (the whole overpopulation and 'five kids is too damn many' schtick') who won't share in the dream of consuming their way to a 'sustainable' earth.
the world of 1840 was way more environmentally unfriendly than the world of 2008, and yet mysteriously the planet's still around, and there's more humans than ever.
hiroshima and nagasaki were freaking NUCLEAR BOMBED, and yet people live there and grow perfectly healthy food, and have healthy kids. chernobyl is recovering, for that matter.
the earth can certainly handle its business regardless of how much we spend pretending consumerism can ever be good for anything other than corporations. and really, so can we. but it's more complex a situation than is generally acceded to.
most eco-worship (and it is religious belief, quite explicitly) boils down to consumerism glossed up as 'sustainability', with a side bonus of classism and racism to berate people with (the whole overpopulation and 'five kids is too damn many' schtick') who won't share in the dream of consuming their way to a 'sustainable' earth.
the world of 1840 was way more environmentally unfriendly than the world of 2008, and yet mysteriously the planet's still around, and there's more humans than ever.
hiroshima and nagasaki were freaking NUCLEAR BOMBED, and yet people live there and grow perfectly healthy food, and have healthy kids. chernobyl is recovering, for that matter.
the earth can certainly handle its business regardless of how much we spend pretending consumerism can ever be good for anything other than corporations. and really, so can we. but it's more complex a situation than is generally acceded to.