Avoid the END: Kill and EAT the 1% now; People taste like PORK!
Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center:
Here’s how it happens: First, the “Elite” population starts restricting the flow of resources available to the “Masses.” This results in the Elite hoarding a surplus for themselves — one that’s high enough to put significant strain on natural resources. From there, it’s only the proverbial hop, skip, and jump away from the collapse of society as we know it. The Commoners will begin to suffer first; the Elite’s pile of goods will allow them to continue on as usual while the world crumbles around them. But sooner or later, we’re all going down — unless we can make some major changes to the world as a whole.
Motesharrei writes that the changes we need to make are twofold: We can avoid collapse and reach an equilibrium with regards to population if “the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion.” In other words, it starts with a lesson we’re taught when we’re in kindergarten: Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Also it would probably behoove us if the one percent got a little less…well, one percent-y.
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