Thursday, September 08, 2011
How many people does it take to fill up the world?
It is pretty believable from the readings (and common sense) to know that technology is growing in exponential form. If you look at a graph of this, the curve (as time increases) shoots up at a higher and higher rate. It's also easy to see that the more technology we have, the more people that we have on earth (close to 7 billion now). If technology keeps saving people then that just means an even more rapid growth of our populaton and a threat of overpopulation. The question that comes up is... is it ethical for us to continue our research in saving people? Or should we let nature run its course? If our generations primary job is to protect future generations, are we helping our cause by finding a cure for AIDS and curing some 30 million people in Africa and promoting even more third-world country over population? If a person knows someone who has an uncurable disease then they would easily say continue research and hope for a cure because that is human nature, but if we break away from human nature then what should we do?
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I definitely think it's unethical to have a cure for something and not utilize that cure. And with all the scientists there are in the world being paid to find cures for any and every disease, it's inevitable for cures to be discovered, then obviously they must be put to use. Yes we will continue to become overpopulated but that's nothing our generation will ever see, and technology will help us find more places to live, such as in space stations, or even underwater, even though that sounds completely ridiculous at this time, it could and probably will eventually happen.
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