Did you know that not having any children
means you are giving a free pass to yourself and more than 10 other people to be able to drive a car, not recycle, eat meat, have transatlantic holidays, and use a tumble drier (and a few other 'green' things). Having a kid is the worst thing you can do to the environment by a very long way. If you have 3 kids, you are forcing over 30 people to be extremely restricted in their lives.
I forget the comedian, but I remember the 'bit' he did where he said that if there were only 10 people on the planet, you could all drive around all day in coal powered steamrollers, ploughing down plants and animals without care, clubbing baby seals as you go, eating McDonalds out of styrofoam containers and just throwing them on the ground, and it wouldn't affect the planet one bit. On the other hand, if you put 25 billion people on the planet, just eating and breathing will fuck everything. Somewhere in-between, there is a population level where you can pretty much do what you like, and the planet will be fine. All we have to do is keep our numbers to that level and the problems we have right now will be solved, but good luck getting people to stop fucking...
Regarding the wealthy people who live near you, they have no obligation to spread their wealth around, even they have almost no money compared to the ultra-rich. The amount of wealth the ultra-rich have is unimaginable. Not just 'never have to work again' money, they have orders of magnitude more than that. Jeff Bezos' daily income (as of 2022) is $0.468 billion. If the posh houses near you are $10 million each, he can buy 46 of them every single day, and still increase his wealth by nearly $70 million a day. One hour of his earnings ($19.52 million) is way more than 'never have to work again'.
I don't hold a grudge, life is too short. I do think though that there is something very wrong with the system we have if it is possible for them to be able to do that and not put a good chunk of that towards feeding, housing and clothing the people at the other end of the wealth scale who do not have food, clothes, or houses to live in.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 20 Jun 2023, 20:02,
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