If, as Schmookler suggests, there is only one choice once violence is initiated and if violence is the story of history as we know it, then how, given the constraints of populations and resources, can we hope to relieve the current situation?
Populations of humans qua humans are clearly too large for the planet under almost any metric. Humans qua individuals are valued by religions, city-states and other individuals and it is entirely repugnant to consider reducing populations in the short term for this we know as murder and genocide. How do we craft a vision for the future that expresses an inherent love of our own species but marries it to a moderation that allows a real and relatively rapid trend downward in populations? The collapse of economic systems and the visions of freedom that must be abridged first to be fully reborn later are consequences as real as the effects of climae change are and will continue to become.
How than do we hope for resolution to the contraindications of our situation? To what can we appeal? Religion - ineffectual. Philosophy - too left-brain and faddish. Heart? What is it we seek and what is it that we lack that can allow enlightment and true understanding?
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