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Originally Posted by newtus
i thought this exact thing.
i even said it on a science forum against overpopulation and they all got on me. saying "being nice wont fix overpopulation". when my REAL argument was that its NOT about overpopulation and people using too many resources. i had said its ABOUT the privileged wasting resources and the rich being greedy and then when they say its depleting too fast they say its cause too many people are on the planet. it doesnt make sense to me from what resources we have are largely wasted.
idk...am i completely wrong?
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I am in total agreement with you.
American portion sizes are like 50% larger than they were in the 1950s alone! We eat big portions. We drive big cars (SUV, mini van, 3/4 ton truck but don't live on a farm or ranch,) and most vehicles are SOV (single occupant vehicle) to go to jobs far from our houses instead of working where we live, we water our perfectly sculpted lawns in climates where perfectly sculpted lawns are not ecologically naturally occuring. We are expected to flush everything, even plain old urin which can sit for the next person, and we are expected to take shower every day. So.... yes, there is a ton of waste for the rich.
Yet, hmmm, over here these people don't even have clean drinking water. And over here, these people are watching their kids starve to death. And it happens right here in our own country, too. Kids and families hungry because of tradgedy in their lives. Not everyone who doesn't work is "lazy" like we know right here from our own forum, life just doesn't fit into that stupid box they try to shove us into. Oh, but it's not enough rescources, although people like my oldest step-brother and his wife threw away a
whole turkey at Thanksgiving because it didn't get eaten during the meal. Because of "bacteria it might have gotten" in the 2 hours it sat on the counter....
