Food Crisis is one of the hardy perennial themes recently. Hideous and radical it may seem, the best solution is to shut down all the all-you-can-eat restaurants and implement strict birth control across the universe. A population of 7 billion? What do you expect? This is simply abominable.
Why is there food crisis? Not enough food, too many people. Worse still, people eat incessantly and gluttonously. Many Sci-Fi movies talk about the end of the world when humans can no longer bear offspring. But before that we might have already run out of food and starved to death, as many have been talking about the hunger warning. Ironically, all-you-can-eat restaurants can be seen everywhere which only aggravates the food shortage problem. Piles of food waiting to be eaten but most likely ends up in rubbish dump. If these restaurants could be eliminated and food can be more evenly distributed, food waste can surely be significantly reduced.
I wonder what is the number scientists worked out for carrying capacity of earth. But all the signs show there are already too many people on the earth. The world would be a better place with much less people. Of course it might not be so in terms of economic development, which relies heavily on morbid borrowing, spending and consumption. However, taking the environmental sustainability into consideration, those economic BS are totally wrong and evil. Modern companies prefers manufacturing trash which would be dead or fall apart not long after its warranty period. I can't imagine all of us throw away our furniture, TV sets, and so on, within 5 years and buy new ones. Not to mention those electronic gadgets contains many non-recyclable parts but they mostly die in 2~4 years. The list would never be long enough. And this is why. We must control population, and in return when there are less people, it is less likely that food crisis or other problems happens. After all, we no longer live in the age of intensive agriculture.
Why is there food crisis? Not enough food, too many people. Worse still, people eat incessantly and gluttonously. Many Sci-Fi movies talk about the end of the world when humans can no longer bear offspring. But before that we might have already run out of food and starved to death, as many have been talking about the hunger warning. Ironically, all-you-can-eat restaurants can be seen everywhere which only aggravates the food shortage problem. Piles of food waiting to be eaten but most likely ends up in rubbish dump. If these restaurants could be eliminated and food can be more evenly distributed, food waste can surely be significantly reduced.
I wonder what is the number scientists worked out for carrying capacity of earth. But all the signs show there are already too many people on the earth. The world would be a better place with much less people. Of course it might not be so in terms of economic development, which relies heavily on morbid borrowing, spending and consumption. However, taking the environmental sustainability into consideration, those economic BS are totally wrong and evil. Modern companies prefers manufacturing trash which would be dead or fall apart not long after its warranty period. I can't imagine all of us throw away our furniture, TV sets, and so on, within 5 years and buy new ones. Not to mention those electronic gadgets contains many non-recyclable parts but they mostly die in 2~4 years. The list would never be long enough. And this is why. We must control population, and in return when there are less people, it is less likely that food crisis or other problems happens. After all, we no longer live in the age of intensive agriculture.
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