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• A comment on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 23 2012: Let me share with you my cosmogony; the way I see this issue. In the past, people used to have many children, it was a part of their "modus-vivendi" for many reasons. First of all, the circunstamces they lived were very different: there was a lot of land to even explore, medicine was very limited and therefore live expectancy was very short, having many children was a way to increase the work force in the typical family business, currents of thought, in those days, said people had to dwell earth and everything in existance was made for the use and joy of humankind.
  
  Since the industrial revolution until now days, human's life has changed drastically. All the advances in science: medicine, technology, sistems etc. have contibuted, not just to improve human's lives, but also, unfortunatelly, jeopardizing our own supervenience, like the following reasons:
  1) Medicine advances have impulse an exponential birthrate and overpopulation. We have adapted so good to this world that, now, we are a kind of cancer or plague to our planet. I have friends that have known their great-grandparents and have children as well, that is: 5 generations living in a same period of time.
  2) Technology, have create us many needs and thus we have become very consumerist and materialistic society, having to consume huge quantities of resources, sometimes unecesary; some others unificiently, creating ecology devastation and inmbalances in our environment.
  3) Systems like economy have made many injustices. I believe this is the greatest flaw in this issue because it has create a greate gap between societys, countries and people. And the problem with this is that this creates ignorance as there exists a correlation between lowincome - low, inefficient education or non-existence at all.
  
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• A comment on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 23 2012: (CONT'D)
  
  So, just to conclude, I think birth control is definitely a very important part of the solution. But it's missing the how. How can we control birthrate? Let's be reaasonable, we can not imposse people not to have children. It might be, probably, something that future generatioms will have to do as a way of survivance if we keep these birthrates. And, yes, I agree wars are one of the resaults from many of our exesses. Although we can not take it as a solution to control overpopulation. That would made us regress instead of progress as society and as developed beings.
  
  I believe the answer for many solutions for today's issues is EDUCATION; good education. Education that not just permit everyone have acces to the several fields of knowledge, but also that teaches ethics and good values that can inspire people and society to be be better; a "formative education" that can change the world.
  
  I know it might sound very naive, but it is a fact that good education change people's way of thinking and way of living.
  
  Let me put you an example. In Mexico, my country, we can find a huge gap between rich and poor people and we can clearly see the correlation, I was talking you about, good or competitive education - high income vs inefficient education - low income people, and the huge gap in the way of thinking. My parents' made has four children and two grand-children at the age of fourty, this is not an isolated case, actually it is pattern we can observe. Low-income people are more ignorant due they're enable to have goog education what they get is just a rickety education, and we can say it's one of the reasons they have more children at younger ages. If we could help improve the education sistem and let everyone have a formative education, we could help a lot in solving this problem. Another way to improve education are these kind of movements; TED's movement, where people can enrich their criterion and perhaps inspire society to be better.
  
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  Another way to improve education is by improving the entertainment industry, as this is, every day more and more, the one who educate and transmit values (good and bad) to society. That's the reason I started to write scripts; to make stories that could inspire people to be better and thus contribute to cociety for better.
  
  If we could convince people to have less children, perhaps one or two; and if we could convince them, if they want to have children, have them at older ages, perhaps at 30's, I'm positive we could save the world and have a green planet again.
  
  The worst genocide of tomorrow is the ecocide of today.

• A reply on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 23 2012: (CONT'D)
  
  Another way to improve education is by improving the entertainment industry, as this is, every day more and more, the one who educate and transmit values (good and bad) to society. That's the reason I started to write scripts; to make stories that could inspire people to be better and thus contribute to cociety for better.
  
  If we could convince people to have less children, perhaps one or two; and if we could convince them, if they want to have children, have them at older ages, perhaps at 30's, I'm positive we could save the world and have a green planet again.
  
  The worst genocide of tomorrow is the ecocide of today.

• A reply on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 23 2012: (CONT'D)
  
  So, just to conclude, yes, I think birth control is definitely a very important part of the solution. But it's missing the how. How can we control birthrate? Let's be reaasonable, we can not imposse people not to have children. It might be, probably, something that future generatioms will have to do as a way of survivance if we keep these birthrates. And, yes, I agree wars are one of the resaults from many of our exesses. Although we can not take it as a solution to control overpopulation. That would made us regress instead of progress as society and as developed beings.
  
  I believe the answer for many solutions for today's issues is EDUCATION; good education. Education that not just permit everyone have acces to the several fields of knowledge, but also that teaches ethics and good values that can inspire people and society to be be better; a "formative education" that can change the world.
  
  I know it might sound very naive, but it is a fact that good education change people's way of thinking and way of living.
  
  Let me put you an example. In Mexico, my country, we can find a huge gap between rich and poor people and we can clearly see the correlation, I was talking you about, good or competitive education - high income vs inefficient education - low income people, and the huge gap in the way of thinking. My parents made has four children and two grand-children at the age of fourty, this is not an isolated case, actually it is pattern we can observe. Low-income people are more ignorant due they're enable to have goog education what they get is just a rickety education, and we can say it's one of the reasons they have more children at younger ages. If we could help improve the education sistem and let everyone have a formative education, we could help a lot in solving this problem. Another way to improve education are these kind of movements; TED's movement, where people can enrich their criterion and perhaps inspire society to be better.
  
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• A reply on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 23 2012: Thank you so much for your response. You see, you're looking out for ideas to solutions, like birth control, it's just that it seems you haven't completed the whole idea.
  
  Let me share with you my cosmogony; the way I see this issue. In the past, people used to have many children, it was a part of their "modus-vivendi" for many reasons. First of all, the circunstamces they lived were very different: there was a lot of land to even explore, medicine was very limited and therefore live expectancy was very short, having many children was a way to increase the work force in the typical family business, currents of thought, in those days, said people had to dwell earth and everything in existance was made for the use and joy of humankind.
  
  Since the industrial revolution until now days, human's life has changed drastically. All the advances in science: medicine, technology, sistems etc. have contibuted, not just to improve human's lives, but also, unfortunatelly, jeopardizing our own supervenience, like the following reasons:
  1) Medicine advances have impulse an exponential birthrate and overpopulation. We have adapted so good to this world that, now, we are a kind of cancer or plague to our planet. I have friends that have known their great-grandparents and have children as well, that is: 5 generations living in a same period of time.
  2) Technology, have create us many needs and thus we have become very consumerist and materialistic society, having to consume huge quantities of resources, sometimes unecesary; some others unificiently, creating ecology devastation and inmbalances in our environment.
  3) Systems like economy have made many injustices. I believe this is the greatest flaw in this issue because it has create a greate gap between societys, countries and people. And the problem with this is that this creates ignorance as there exists a correlation between lowincome - low, inefficient education or non-existence at all.
  
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  A reply on Conversation: How can we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?

  Sep 21 2012: That is an old fashion way of thinking about population control. If all people think that population control has to decrease by any other means but wars, then we all are a bunch of genocides, incapable of making more creative solutions and then we might desserve to be wiped out from existance.
  
  Do you really think so?
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  A reply on Conversation: Do you support unrestricted Immigration?

  Sep 21 2012: It's easy to speak like that when you haven't suffered all the injustices of the third world. They don't run away; it's just matter of survival.
  
  With all due respect.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you support unrestricted Immigration?

  Sep 21 2012: I could agree, but not now. I beleave it is fairer and more human to be citicen of the world, nevertheless you can not allow that until the world has more even or egalitarian conditions. If not, it would be unfair for the rich countries which would be invaded for low-income people, from the third world, looking for oportunities and a better life. Something like the emigration we can see today, just that in an unsustainable massive way.
  
  I understand rich countries have been unfair, many times, with poor countries; but it is also true that rich countries have a lot of hard work, sweat, effort, inteligence and even blood spilled, given by many generations whom have countribute to the society they are today.

• A comment on Conversation: Time in the Mind

  Sep 20 2012: I think our mind captures reality like the altern current, that is: in a shape of waves, like a twinkling light. Our subconcient might be more like direct current, that is in a linear way, and perhaps is the responsible for what we call intuition, a feeling you have for reality that you don't know how to explain it.
  
  If our mind takes reality like waves, just like the altern current, I can assure you those waves can accelerate or decelerate deppending the age and the "momentum" whether you're in danger or you're making an effort, like in sports, or you're strongly focusing in something.
  
  Let me put some examples. When we were kids, or at list when I was a kid, time seemed to go very slow. A year passed so slow we din't remember we have to be good guys the whole year in order to recieve gifts from Santa until one or two week before Christmas, becuase we feel it has to pass an eternity to be the next Chrismas. The primary school seemed an eternal time to me while the time in highschool and in the university went so fast. According to my theory, waves were going faster when kid while they slow down and keep slowing down as we get older.
  
  Another clear example is when I used to fight with some one when a I was younger. I swear I'm a paceful man, but some times "a man has to do what a man has to do". The thing is, that in those instances when I was fighting, brainal waves most had been capturing reality so fast that some times I could see my opponent like in a slow motion, and actually I was even able to skip some ponches.
  
  The same thing happens when you're in danger, you're exercising, perhaps running, or you're focusing very hard in something perhaps playing chess, perception of time seems to slow down due to the accelerating brainal capturing of reality (accelerated waves)
  
  I hope my contribution can be of any help.