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Beth Holden
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 +This page is for everyone to work with. Please add at least one solution for every problem you add. You may also add your solutions to those of someone else, or offer a new, improved version of an existing solution: Solution #2. Or, Problem Modified: may be added to better state a given problem.
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 +Problem: ​ Capitalism
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 +Capitalism is a construction which manifests some of the worst characteristics of human nature, or perhaps it is better to say our animal nature. It is an organized form of aggression, accumulation and power of a few over the many.  This organization is largely supported by the many despite its disadvantages because it provides a sense of safety and leadership thus relieving the many of the need to think and plan and solve problems. ​ The system persists as long as it provides essential needs and a sense of '​someone at the wheel'​. ​ That is now missing. ​
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 +People must become more willing to take responsibility and work together. ​ We tend to work within small groups where we feel familiar: family, friends, colleagues who share some of our interests. While it should not be necessary to abandon this behavior, we need to expand our view to include those who have different habits and beliefs. ​ This is something humans do to some extent when they do not feel threatened. ​ But currently we all feel threatened, and identify others as the enemy.
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 +Problem: Overpopulation
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 +We could theoretically feed all 7 billion plus people on the planet, but if all of those people are using resources such as fossil fuels and forests and creating plastics and other pollutants at the 2017 rate in "first world" countries, we have no hope of averting catastrophe. ​ Since people who enjoy the first world way of life are extremely reluctant to give up their conveniences and pleasures, one solution would be to greatly reduce the population on the planet. ​ The question is how to do that in a way that respects the rights of all peoples.
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 +From the Huffington Post:
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 +Ecologists explain that the collapse in global biodiversity is linked to overpopulation. China, Mexico and Brazil have been singled out as extreme cases of species loss. Brazil’s population grew four fold during the past sixty years; little wonder the Amazon is feeling the pressure. Mexico and China’s growth is comparable. ​
 +Israel offers a microcosm of the global situation: A meeting point of three continents, at the middle of the twentieth century, this tiny country was still home to an astonishing assemblage of mammals, birds and reptiles. That’s because in 1949 there were one million people living in Israel. Today there are eight million. The equation is simple: more people means less wildlife. Accordingly,​ about a third of the country’s 115 indigenous mammal species today are either endangered or critically endangered. The amphibian population is almost entirely extirpated. ​
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 +Solution:
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 +Education regarding the problems of human overpopulation.
 +Free clinics for family planning information and birth control.
 +For developing countries: improved access to good nutrition, housing and health care. 
 +(This in itself is a big problem to be discussed in the context of developing a world wide democracy.)
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problems.txt · Last modified: 2017/11/05 08:07 by Beth Holden