The world's resources are badly managed. Our leaders seem to lack vision to develop appropriate infrastructure for growing populations. In fact our own country can't import enough people fast enough - Australia will take just about anyone.
The world's main producers of manufactured goods first got hold of the idea of "planned obsolescence" way back in the 1920's. Since that time the lifespan of most products have gotten shorter and shorter. Just look at cars or fridges as an example - pretty obvious there. The fridge bought in the fifties lasted for an entire marriage (maybe the rubber seal would need to be replaced), now you are doing well to get seven or so years before something starts to go wrong and usually it is too costly to repair. The quality of items has degraded with time due to this policy to turn over more and more goods. Thus there will be fewer resources for future generations to utilise or they will become more and more costly to procure.
Australia is actually one of the wettest countries in the world, however most of the rain falls in the far northern areas, only to run out to sea via the natural watercourses unused. Pretty obvious that collecting it and then piping it down south and into the dry interior would create the ability to expand food production for export. We could even have a system of canals that could not only be used for diverting much needed water, but also for tourism - nice way to see the inland.
Meanwhile we have recent governments who have given the largest share of water to the Chinese in the form of the water sucking Cubbie Station, the newly expanded Ord River Project and the Gilbert River. All the related water schemes paid by Australian taxpayers, so where is the return?
There is an extreme imbalance in the world as to the distribution of landholdings between an elite few and everyone else. The Queen owns one out of every six acres world wide and the entire coastline of Britain where she has made a tidy profit with the rental to green energy companies and their offshore windfarms. Her son owns practically the entire region of Cornwall and who knows what else, along with all the rellies who are spread across much of the planet.
There is plenty of land for the people of the planet if only it were to be better managed. The real problem for the elite is that we have become more difficult to control thanks to education and the internet (which is able to stand outside the elite owned and controlled mainstream media outlets). Thus we see the current overt repression and never ending wars as the elite struggle to reshape the world to their agenda.
Population reduction is well underway and has been for quite sometime, but clearly not fast enough for the elite. There are many avenues to kill, not just the obvious war and mayhem. Also of note is the massive investments into automation whether it be drone ships on the high seas, drones in the air, brain implants for humans, bionic limbs and suits for the military, robots etc. Soon they won't need so many people to keep them living to the way they are accustomed. How much better for them when they will no longer have to be concerned with the potential of so many of us to strike back and call them to account for their psychopathic ways to attain exceptional wealth and power.
The elite's wet dream of a world population of 500 million is certainly a high pressure wake-up call to the rest of us. Hopefully it will act to push us into a better, more sane way of living together on this planet.
