Perhaps some of you has sometime been concerned about the huge number of people populating the world and its impact on the environment (and on the famous quality of life). This is from Wikipedia:
Concern about overpopulation is ancient. Tertullian was a resident of the city of Carthage in the second century CE [by this time Carthage was a Roman city, after its rebuilding], when the population of the world was about 190 million (only three to four percent of what it is today). He notably said: "What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint) is our teeming population. Our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us... In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race."
Personally, I have long since viewed modern medicine as one of the scourges of our time. Mother Nature has always had some mechanisms by means of which she controlled the size of a population. Man has laboriously managed to dismantle them one by one. Infant mortality was one of those mechanisms. Let alone natural selection. Human biological evolution is being put in a cul de sac. I cannot say something like "this is my opinion", for I've been influenced by ideas thought before this post (by whoever had them). So I will let this sound as categorical as it does.
Concern about overpopulation is ancient. Tertullian was a resident of the city of Carthage in the second century CE [by this time Carthage was a Roman city, after its rebuilding], when the population of the world was about 190 million (only three to four percent of what it is today). He notably said: "What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint) is our teeming population. Our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us... In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race."
Personally, I have long since viewed modern medicine as one of the scourges of our time. Mother Nature has always had some mechanisms by means of which she controlled the size of a population. Man has laboriously managed to dismantle them one by one. Infant mortality was one of those mechanisms. Let alone natural selection. Human biological evolution is being put in a cul de sac. I cannot say something like "this is my opinion", for I've been influenced by ideas thought before this post (by whoever had them). So I will let this sound as categorical as it does.
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