Just wondering if we could ever get to the position of having a critically over populated World and have to come up with a solution which would indiscriminately remove people over a certain age?
shareWhen the Earth becomes over-populated the population will adjust itself. There is a limit to the amount of food and fresh water to go around. Probably when the Earth's population is around 10 billion. Since the Earth's population is about 7.8 Billion right now that time will come sooner than later.
shareYes, I think life on this planet is going to become even more difficult within a couple of generations or so.
Humanity will survive, is my guess. But life's going to be even more of a struggle for most people than it already is.
We will survive as a species but life for us is going to change forever soon. Like you said, "a couple of generations or so."
shareI'm afraid that's the truth of it. And I'm glad I don't have children or grandchildren to be around when that happens.
shareNot as long as older people continue to dominate politics! I mean who runs the US government? People aged 40-80.
Interesting. The ENTIRE PREMISE of the age based death in Logan's Run book is that the youth bombed washington's old ruling class and took over.
shareWhich isn't logical. I mean, yes, the crazier fringe elements of the 1960s who took the "Never trust anone over 30" thing seriously would have been happy to have killed off everyone over thirty, but they didn't kill themselves when they passed thirty did they.
I mean it's a cool movie and hit the zeitgeist on the head, but the fact is no ruling body would set up a system that required them to commit suicide in a few years. Ruling bodies do that to their subjects, not themselves.
right! hahahahah exactly
have you read the book? their young charismatic leader offed himself first to set the precedent
im not saying it was perfect fiction, just an interesting idea about its times... and your remake about the olders running things was the whole idea in the book
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I must disagree. Several of the world's biggest religions have spent hundreds or thousands of years telling their adherents that there's something better after death, but still. The vast majority of believers try to put off dying as long as possible.
shareNot in our lifetimes, but maybe someday if certain concepts crept further and further into insane territory. Honestly, a few years ago I might have answered differently, but I've spent the last couple of years watching US politics prove that there's no bridge too far, watching people debate whether or not a virus is killing people, and on and on, and I have re-calibrated my estimates of humankind's capacity for basing laws and lives on stupidity.
shareI have reached same conclusion .
I think the widespread availability of "information" via the internet is actively making people dumber
who knew.
Its kinda like the "real" knowledge of humanity that used to be held in books in libraries and stuff has just been diluted , vandalised , overwritten with the inane babblings of those with the loudest mouths
Misinformation is more appealing because it feeds egos and echo chambers. I think we used to believe in knowledge as a higher good. Better theories won out. It can't help that most institutions devoted to knowledge wound up leaving their love of wisdom for a mistress called "diplomas." They don't want to impart knowledge, they want tuition money.
Ah, there are a lot of reasons for it, but the bottom line is that we are a species of stupid, impulsive little runts barely out of our caves and playing with things we basically don't understand. Heck, you and I are communicating on devices and through technology that most people couldn't replicate if they were given ten years to do so.