The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...

I read and re-read this post trying to determine what parts were sarcasm and which were reality. With regard to your comment about wishing for a pandemic to wipe out a huge portion of the population, I took this to be sarcasm/comical. You can choose to end your own life today; that is ultimate fairness. Perhaps a drop in the bucket but it is a start.
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Until we have a profound cultural shift in how we live, our consumerism, materialism, our disposable, capitalism-driven economy, our species is headed toward untold miserable conditions. Our children will not have a better way of life. We must evolve."

Well, Mao began a profound cultural shift, i.e. forced abortions, one child families forced labor. How did that work out?
What are the untold miserable conditions that our species is headed toward? Living under the Cherry Creek bridge, oops, we are already there.
Evolve to what? I have always been interested in evolution. If man evolved from the apes why are the apes still here?

Rampage--I will be happy to loan you my copy of "The Origin of Species" if you would care to research your own question. Basically it says that species can branch off, not all become something else. If you study man's evolution, different levels of that evolution existed at the same time. Kind of like why, to use the Bible as an example, different colors, languages and religions came from the same original couple. Follow me so far?

What "untold miserable conditions"???!!! How about your great grand children cursing your name when they can't breathe because of short-sited pollution? How about those innocents suffering and dying because they couldn't afford health care or medicine because you sold your soul giving tax breaks and no scrutiny or accountability to the rich and powerful? How about millions dying in the future because we annihilated so many of our resources, animal and plant, that there is mass starvation? Evolve to what? Try being what humans SHOULD be--less greedy, less egotistical, less short-sighted, less--well, you should get the picture. Let me just say that animals kill for defense or food. They do not kill for no reason. Maybe man could strive to evolve to that?

We have more people than we have ever had. Malthus would be shocked to how many people eat despite the population doubling and tripling. Less subsistence poverty than ever before in real numbers and we have had so many nations achieve zero population growth. Imagine Japan in twenty more years. It will be a garden because of less people.

No worries. The world ended decades ago. You are all a figment of my imagination.

..."Ehrlich prophesied that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s (and that 65 million of them would be Americans), that already-overpopulated India was doomed, and that most probably “England will not exist in the year 2000.”

In conclusion, Ehrlich warned that “sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,” meaning “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”.

.. wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/02/the-popul...hat-bombed-turns-50/

Obviously we need one world government to monitor and control population growth since individual countries would never make those kinds of decisions for it's people (except for places like China I guess). Give all the power to a handful of "geniuses" in Brussels since the left in this country thinks Europe is so righteous and wise.

Or just let the earth cleanse itself and start over like it's done in the past. I'm good with that.