We have made the world more populous, we have made people expand to all areas, we have extended our domination. We have proved we can conquer, and we have proved we can devastate habits and air, land, and waters. All of this, at what cost? Is having 7 billion people better than 3.5 billion, or 1 billion? What is the optimal amount. Should we have 100 billion just because of the simple notion that more is better? We have achieved quantity over quality. There is more, but so many suffer thru poor quality food, healthcare, shelter, education... we have technology to improve our collective lot, but the sheer size of humanity's footprint strains our ability to have quality of life and tests our difficult nature to sufficiently share. Maybe civilization means less but higher quality, maybe culture is about refining ourselves instead of bloating our species, maybe society means living in a way where every individual is respected and promoted to achieve, instead of figuring out better means to exploit, deceive, out compete, and subjugate one another.
Maybe we've been asking the wrong questions. Or maybe we haven't even ever asked the question. Stop the bickering, stop drawing borders, stop making artificial distinctions. We, collectively as humans, need to start taking seriously the quality of life for every valuable and immensely talented person we welcome into this world. And if we are not able to be good hosts, why the hell are we inviting more than we can satisfy as our guests... our future generations.
