This is just a problematic way for you to be thinking because it's not rooted in freedom.
If we take your statements as a given, then who decides what the proper sized population is? Who decides what people have to die or be relocated? This is authoritarian thinking of top-down control, like Communist China. Maybe you solve some of the problems, but you're bound to create all kinds of new problems with these ideas.
'Who decides' is a problem because of how unintelligent our species is. Someone would have to impose functionality on us. It's not innate, and as you say, would require top-down control.
That alone is another reason to limit our numbers. But there's no solution from within, and we're determined to go right to total self-destruction. Survivors will be able to pick through our bones for metals and other resources, and hopefully that won't be productive enough to spiral out of control again.
What kind of problems do you foresee with humanity living in small towns and villages, producing most of their own food locally, and generally living in harmony with the environment?
This is just a problematic way for you to be thinking because it's not rooted in freedom.
If we take your statements as a given, then who decides what the proper sized population is? Who decides what people have to die or be relocated? This is authoritarian thinking of top-down control, like Communist China. Maybe you solve some of the problems, but you're bound to create all kinds of new problems with these ideas.
'Who decides' is a problem because of how unintelligent our species is. Someone would have to impose functionality on us. It's not innate, and as you say, would require top-down control.
That alone is another reason to limit our numbers. But there's no solution from within, and we're determined to go right to total self-destruction. Survivors will be able to pick through our bones for metals and other resources, and hopefully that won't be productive enough to spiral out of control again.
What kind of problems do you foresee with humanity living in small towns and villages, producing most of their own food locally, and generally living in harmony with the environment?