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Originally Posted by Indiana  Without agriculture we wouldn't be able to sustain the earth's current population by hunting and gathering.
The first thing to happen is that the weakest would become prey. |
Sure, some people would die, billions perhaps. But it is an inevitability. Is it better to get it over with now or for us to have a massive crash in the near future? This will be a change, sustained through many generations, that will eventually get us down to a sustainable population as well.
The weakest would have been selected out in a hunter-gatherer way of life and would have died well before they reached adulthood. But it's not really viewed as a bad thing, but a good thing. People often fetishize death when it is simply a normal friendly part of living. We all die. It's just a matter of when. I just think a highly conscious human race would take steps today to help reduce population and eventually make our way back to hunting and gathering.
However, I feel that it will take a very long time for this ever to happen. There will have to be a major event that shows us how this civilization will not endure forever and will prompt us to try living the natural way. But to each their own. Many people like the society we live in and I can't expect everyone to agree with me or the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism. It's a personal choice and I'm no better or worse for identifiying with this way of life. It just makes sense to me and to a small subset of the population. Don't worry, though. I'm not the next Unabomber. We will make the transition when we are ready as a species.