Here's the thing: currently, with the way the human population currently consumes, things are unsustainable. However, starving vast portions of humanity is not the peaceable solution. You'd be pissed off too if some hoighty-toighty intellectual elitist ipod-totin' envirofreak who's never known the crippling effects of hunger says "let's not make slightly altered food to save you and your family because it's bad for the planet." Fuck the planet, you want to live. It's not that you enjoy mining with mercury or slash and burn agriculture or growing drugs for the comfortable elite to amuse themselves with, it's that you have no other choice if you want to survive. Until the vast disparities in economics, resource use and quality of life are reconciled, be it through green technologies or nuclear holocaust, saving the planet is not going to be priority number one for a majority of the world's population. Yes, dis shit is fucked up. Yes, it's going to be difficult to damn near impossible to fix. However, blithely ignoring the suffering of your fellow human beings to keep down population while guerilla terrorist groups form to take down the evil slothful empire is not going to do it.
Until the vast disparities in economics, resource use and quality of life are reconciled, be it through green technologies or nuclear holocaust, saving the planet is not going to be priority number one for a majority of the world's population. Yes, dis shit is fucked up. Yes, it's going to be difficult to damn near impossible to fix. However, blithely ignoring the suffering of your fellow human beings to keep down population while guerilla terrorist groups form to take down the evil slothful empire is not going to do it.