paradox

I once heard this variation on a quote: The shortest distance between two people is a story.

There are seven billion people on earth.

Every person needs to have access to clean drinking water and sanitation, and adequate food.

There are eight billion people on earth.

Every person needs to have access to clean drinking water and sanitation, and adequate food.

WHILE world=true THEN #i.e. if the environment sustaining us is still viable, if she’s breathing

x = people on earth

print( “There are ” x “ billion people on earth.”)

#!!URGET: print("Every person needs to have access to clean drinking water and sanitation, and adequate food.")

#“Every increase in food production is answered by an increase in population somewhere.”
#Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

x = x + more #don’t worry, this is temporary, population control remember? condoms

Do we need to stop producing enough food?

We’ve pushed the limits of population capacity with agricultural advancements and technologies, but we’ve only pushed the limits...we haven’t extended their limits to infinity…

so at one point the limit comes, and technology can’t create something from nothing…

so, it seems, we stop population growth now, or when the environment that sustains us (and that which sustains so many other forms of life) is too fragile to adapt to a previous resilience.

Privileged white boy! Racist! Bomb his Ivory tower!

That’s actually what I’m calling myself when I think these thoughts. Guilt wraps herself around my heart and contracts. At least, she says, you’ll have a pain in your chest if you think like this.

But,

I couldn’t possibly agree with not being in accord in the first millenium development goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

But that can’t be the solution. Because the problem will still come (/is still here).

But restraining from that solution is no solution.

There’s something missing. A paradox. With this set of axioms there’s only an end, no possible sustainability.

It’s our culture, agriculture? the story we’re playing out. But I’m not sure of an alternative. I’m in the same falling ship, trying to get a birds eye view.

A new set of axioms.

smile. life.