Live or Let Die...

…Given the current rate of resource consumption, the sustainable human population is less than two billion – and falling further rapidly as our already unsustainable consumption rate further degrades the natural ‘resources’ which provide us with sustenance and, indeed, land to live on as the impact of global warming becomes ever more severe… 

Therefore, given that the human population is currently around eight billion, at the extremes we can quarter our population or quarter our resource consumption as, whilst reducing the human population as quickly as possible through family planning and birth control is required, it simply won’t get us down to the levels we need within a few years: even with our best efforts it would take a century or more, and we simply don’t have that long…  

To have any chance of surviving largely intact, we must act together in this world war, in a concerted effort to at least quarterize our rate of consumption within a few years…  This will not be easy, but this is our Apollo moment – and we cannot afford to fail…  We are already feeling the impact of a modest increase in global temperatures, and every day burning more fossil ‘fuel’ is just one more day through cascading processes and irreversible tipping points on our way to thermal runaway and extinction…

Difficult choices, I know – but in the end it comes down to wishing whether to live; or die…