Publication details
Filosofie přelidnění: Nutnost long-term thinking v rámci řešení globálních problémů
| Title in English | Philosophy of Overpopulation: The Need for Long-Term Thinking in Addressing Global Problems |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Population growth and human overpopulation are frequently given as given and unamendable ("demography is destiny") or amendable, but by unethical means. The lecture shows that the means we have at our disposal are ethical and very effective. They are the availability of family planning, empowerment of women, education in general, environmental education in particular, and reproductive ethics. The problems are barriers in accessing contraception and dropping investments into family planning programs. The relative problem of family planning is that benefits are long-term, and individuals may be unable to see them. That is, however, the purpose of preventive medicine. It is of vital importance that politicians and decision-makers trapped in short-term myopia realize it. Herein comes philosophy with its long-term perspective. Philosophy that has for centuries sought the primordial origins (of problems), in this particular case, philosophy of overpopulation. It demonstrates that to solve global problems of today (climate change, species extinction, water scarcity, food insecurity, migration and many more), we need to address the causing problem, i.e. the size of humanity, and to think and act with a long-term perspective. |
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