DU POLL: Are humans basically stupid?

[NoOneMan]

44. The Luddites were fighting for their jobs

They were already in the agriculturalists' paradigm.

Here is the bottom line question:

Have all these advancements increased the aggregate happiness of the 8 billion homo sapiens enough to justify their collective impact on our ecosystem?

Remember, 8 billion people cannot live like you. Consider:

We now have 4 billion people chronically deficient in at least one required nutrient

850 million people are starving to death with 25,000 dying every day

These people are outnumbered by the 15% of the world's population that is overweight and obese (causing further health problems)

Slavery may be as high as 25 million people today, with many more given nothing but subsistence wages causing dramatic poverty and subjugation

Even in developed areas people must labor 40 to 60 hours a week to live in a way where their needs are met and their children have mobility. This stress is linked to cancer, mental illness and violence.

And let us not forget global wars and pandemics that exist only since civilization. Frankly, I could go on and on.

All this production and innovation have increase CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to 400PPM, which is predicted to decimate our agriculture system by 2050 (and starve billions by 2100). Likewise, the increase in CO2 in the oceans is causing a massive planetary food chain disruption.

Considering all this...

Is the supposed aggregate happiness (Africans to Americans) that these advancements bring us justify our impending starvation and climate crisis?

If not, seems like it was all pretty stupid.