They calculate our carbon footprint, ban plastic bags, force us to sort waste, intervene in all spheres of life, energy, agriculture, they even say it is impossible for Czechs to fly by plane on holiday...
And we give in. Why not? Some of these things are quite reasonable. For example, the waste sorting. Or limiting the use of plastic bags and going back to cloth ones. Others are not reasonable and are more like ideological flip-flops or good business. But generally speaking, we Europeans are sensible people and we like to look after the environment in which we live. And although we damaged it quite a lot in the initial industrial boom, we saw the consequences in time and we have restrained ourselves.
Strangely enough, our elites do not address their demand for a sustainable way of life to those who demonstrably do not live it at all. Let's get a few facts straight:
So I don't trust the Green Parties and environmental organizations to be serious about their fight for a sustainable world. If they did, they would have to target it primarily at those who replicate like possums. But no, it's the people they protect, it seems. That's where the constant food and medical aid is going, and these do-gooders are directly involved in this explosion. No, they can't be serious. So I suppose the whole environmental frenzy is just an effort to create some new religion under whose banner they are trying to unite a globalised people.
Yes, we Europeans will mostly behave ecologically without being lectured. We will reduce our consumption if necessary, we will develop sophisticated technologies that do not pollute the environment, we will probably return to gentle agriculture that does not exploit the soil in a way that turns it into dead matter in a few years. But it won't do us a bit of good if the larger part of the world keeps getting bigger. Because even the most environmentally friendly people (and I have strong doubts that the anchored people of the present moment will even be willing to bother with that) need food, water, and space. If there are too many of them, they will eventually eat the planet.
In this context, I find it interesting how everyone is now addressing climate change, how there will be shortages in Africa, and how we should therefore prepare for waves of migration. And none of these futurologists have yet mentioned that there is a far safer solution to the problem than moving masses of people to the most densely populated continent. Simply change reproductive behaviour. Africa has enough resources to support the numbers of people it had in, say, 1950. Conversely, no continent has enough resources to feed a mass of people that doubles every 50 years.
P.S..
If there are too many of us, we will start dying more and having fewer babies. The laws of Nature are immutable. Man is doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, he is unchangeable:
1)First generation - crisis, capable of leading, laying the foundations of the economy
2)Second generation - wealth is built, contentment reigns
3)Third generation - collapse from unmanaged prosperity, youth rebel, families, good morals and common sense break down. The incompetent or omnipotent come to power, we return to the beginning - to the jungle with the rule of the stronger - or new Bata's come in, for whom business was first and foremost a service to the public and the country.
JŠ
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