Only God can say when the earth is "full."
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Only God can say when the earth is "full."
Pronatalist said:
Well if there ever came to 70 billion, don't you think that those people would enjoy life and expect to have their precious darling children too?
You seriously think that ALL 7 billions people ENJOY life today? I bet it is safe to say that at least half suffer more than enjoy it.
Well why hasn't the world been developed better? One obvious reason, is all the effort and money squandored on (anti)"family-planning." That could have went to better uses, rather than being diverted from reform and useful purposes. Why aren't economies and political systems developed more to benefit everybody, rather than the rich elite few? Because society isn't pronatalist enough. Because people don't value the sacredness of each and every human life, like they should. Because too many people don't even try, to love thy neighbor as thyself. And population "control" gives them a cop-out excuse, because they can just opine nonsense about there supposedly being "too many" people in the world, and use that as a handy rationalization to stall and avoid needed reforms. If human lives really mattered, then we might have to pay people a decent and living and family wage, for their work. Corporations might not be allowed to exploit the labor of the poor in cruel sweatshops so much. We might actually have to allow the poor, some way to establish title to their land, so that they can build themselves nicer homes. We might actually have to act more, like we care.
When the number of humans were counted only in the millions and the chance of reacing adulthood was less than 50%, breeding like rabbits made sense. Not anymore...
We are already everywhere, so you could say the order from the Bible has been accomplished...
Well when there were but mere millions of people, don't you think that some people might have trouble remembering all those names, and keeping track of everybody and whether everybody has paid their excessive taxes? So who's to say, that there wasn't "too many" people back then, if there is supposedly "too many" people in the world now? Did you know back then, people didn't use flush toilets. Gasp! Would you want to have very big cities where people don't even use toilets?
Why do you think that God commanded people to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth? To prevent an "empty" planet? I don't think so, for then why didn't God start with more people, and seed people onto more planets? God commanded people to have dominion over nature and other creatures, and to be good stewards and to till the land. Why? For the benefit of man. When humans grow more numerous, more people benefit by being alive. So God's commandment to people to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, is still just as relevant today, as way back when before human populations naturally grew so huge. Let's say there are maybe 100 great reasons for people to procreate. We have lost one reason, that of filling an "empty" planet. Doesn't that still leave around 99 great reasons remaining, to keep on procreating? But then neither is the planet "full" either. There's lots more room most everywhere, for lots more people, if or as need be. Humans are even accused of
adapting "too well" to the environment, such that maybe rather than people being able to live most anywhere, we start living most everywhere at once. Well that too is a practical reason why humans should continue growing more numerous, because we can
adapt and benefit from growing all the more numerous.
You say we are already everywhere? No, we are not. There are lots of places remaining where human populations are sparse. And often it isn't due to any reason such that it isn't a good place for humans to settle, but quite often, because not many people really want to live "in the middle of nowhere." In the middle of nowhere, is too far from the jobs and
low wages always Wal-Marts, too far from the shopping malls and the excitement of the cities. Human population can increase further, by there coming to be more places with lots of people and fewer places far from many people. Cities could in fact, grow bigger and closer together. More cities and towns can in fact, be built in between the various growing cities and towns. What's a little "urban spawl" if it helps to accomodate all the more fellow human being coming alive?
There are 3 perceptional dimensions that human populations can yet grow into, plenty of room for more people, for the forseeable future. Outwards, inwards, and upwards. Cities and various human settlements can spread over more land. Humans can expand their range and territory, and cities and countries can welcome their swelling populations to "merge" into one another, so that everybody can be welcome and have their place. I am against "globalization" of the form of political considation of power in the hands of corrupt globalist unaccountable dictators, but have no objection to the people themselves coming closer together, merely because there is so many of us, out of what is natural or necessity. Inwards of course means infilling underutilized land, adding more streets, or welcoming households to grow in numbers, or more people sometimes perhaps sharing rooms for a while until the housing stock can be expanded. Upwards of course means, that if everybody wants to live in the same place, well more people can be stacked into highrises, so that they may be both numerous and live where they want.