Johhny Electriglide wrote:
Hitler wasn't the only aggressor who killed off millions of opponents or just people they didn't like at that time. You had Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, and Japan's leaders.
In the past before cities and massive agriculture, people living in small villages became agitated by over-crowding with time. There were new lands, and those of enemies. In fighting, the population would be lowered and the strongest and smartest survived, as a general tendency. New lands also were filled with predators that would eat people.
Pacifists did not survive, as a general tendency. Neither did the inattentive, weak, slow, and stupid. Aggressors didn't always win, either.
Hostility is increasing around the world with the elephant in the room, not mentioned, over-population. It is self-induced by unthought out for the far future irresponsible and stupid over-breeding. There are no new worlds to conquer here, only taking from others satisfies, temporarily, the hunger of overpopulation.
It has vast negative effects, from local shortages of some critical needs, to the slowly falling dominoes of open ocean warming to tundra methane release to oceanic methane release and finally CO2 cookout from seas and land.
Economically, it leads right to poverty on a world scale topped by mass starvation and other horrible deaths.
Psychologically, overpopulation tends to increase hostility, depression, anxiety, and criminality. I would say along with escapism of all kinds.
Because there are so many people, each local disaster becomes bigger, and big disasters are bigger, too. Like the Sumatran tsunami of 2004. Cascadia or La Palma will be even worse. With only an average of about two months of food stored, a missing season on a global scale from a large volcano, could trigger the crash.
Would aggressors like moslems be at advantage in the crash? It doesn't matter, because CAGW to thermageddon will finish off any survivors and their kids. Even cannibals will run out of food.
No offense, but you kinda sound like those folks over at Newsmax and such. "World ends tomorrow, buy your condo in heaven for only $1M! Check or debit card preferred."
However, I know there is some truth to what you say. In a time when we actually have enough food to feed the world, it is sad so many must starve.