Overpopulation
- scary stuff, that. Anyway it scares me. A lot of us enlightened westerners
imagine modern utopias where the local society is as connected & supportive
as back in the bad old days, back when being pushed out meant death or at least
misery. There will be roof gardens with beehives, solar panels & a big
windmill at the end of the road. Homegrown produce, recycling, zero growth,
fellowship. It's already happening here & there. Neighborhood dinner clubs,
urban greenhouses, electric cars, clothes & tool swaps, people taking care
of each other. Even old fogies get a chance to form elder communes - olle kolle in Danish - that will stave
off the inevitable trip to the nursing home. It's beautiful.
It's also exclusive. Many million people on
the planet are nowhere in these cozy plans. The planners ignore them because
there's nothing else to do. They/we/I wish they would just go away.
Of course
they won't. They will keep on keeping on as they always have, having many
children, using up all the resources they can find, settling in nature
preserves & burning the wood, poaching, generally making a mess. They are a
whole lot better than the mining, logging & oil companies out to grab
whatever they can, aided & abetted by various multi-nationals & corrupt
governments, but they are still in the way of the modern utopia. They are just
so annoying.
The best
thing for the planet would be to exactly achieve zero growth, stop producing a
bunch of useless luxury products, dumb-ass toys no kid would miss, gas guzzler
cars. And pop off half the population. Robots are going to take most of the
jobs anyway, not? So as a little mental exercise, who has to go?
We'll start
with pedophiles, human traffickers, wife-&-kid beaters, tyrants & torturers,
rapists. No protests there, right? Moving on to terrorists, bigtime
bullies & fanatics of every stripe, swindlers, gangsters, psychopaths (one
might be your boss), the mining, logging & oil companies + those who
cooperate with them (okay - going to be impractical), corrupt politicians
generally (there went the entire governments of India, Pakistan & points
east + some of ours), drug dealers, the wolves of Wall Street &
the fashionistas who tell perfectly normal girls they are fat.
Next? This
is where innocent people take a hit. Very retarded or senile & others who
are almost or completely helpless + anybody dying of AIDS - or anything else, I
guess. Then who? Well, here we come to the great mass of foreign humanity with
no prospects, a gang of kids they can't care for or educate because they are
ignorant, lazy or out to breed a million little Muslims; people I will never
get to know. (The very few I do know - because they made it up here - I often
like a lot.) I don't want to think about them. They are just in the way. Dang,
that's annoying!
