To begin with, you are right on all references to the problems described in your article. This isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact, thus disagreeing is far from an option to anyone reading your article.

As far as feeding them or better yet, teaching them how to fish, consider Lao Tzu’s words when he said “Give a Man a Fish, Feed Him For a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, Feed Him For a Lifetime” . If Lao Tzu could stipulate such truthfulness in his words during acient chinese times, I find it highly unlikely we are unable to do so in the 21st century.

Regarding war, we are by far the most shameful creature that ever set foot on this planet with death tolls of 160 million people (approx) in the 20th century, and we are already in the 7 figure mark in the 21st century. Considering we only just managed to walk into this century, a new millenia too, we are still the shameful beings we started out to be in the previous centuries.

Without wanting to go off-topic too much, war is what seems to be a necesity. Conspiracy theories state that population control must be in check for the sake of the rest of the world to ensure survival. Overpopulation is a problem that conspiracy theories have stated to be solved in many different ways such as enducing controlled substances in particular ways to ensure targeted deaths within a particular time frame. An example of such a theory is one related to tobacco industries which state that cigarettes are used for population control as a service to governments based on their predictions of socioeconomic outcomes in the future.

And with such an example, control is probably the keyword here. We have a finite number of resources, and whatever pushed the creation of the human being also ironically gave us the urge to reproduce rapidly in the billions. Thus, war could also be considered a form of population control. It makes sense for this to exist. The methodology of one government buying into countries to suppress them is far from a lie (at least in serious speculation), and media covered stories always manage to keep the rest of the world that is unaffected by conflict into check.

I do wonder however, particular countries such as Russia have grown silent in terms of “macho” attitude, which makes me think they might be progressing much like the Dutch do. But then again Russia is nobody’s pushover, we saw the conflicts in 2008, and we saw the Ukrainian gas pipeline issues.

Conclusively, I agree. There is something wrong. But it is wrong for the right reasons. At the end of the day, you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. So what do you do? Do we improvise and regulate the level of survival to a lesser state by allowing equality amongst the masses? Do we allow the current situation to grow into an impossible task for media to cover or for governments to deny?

I would say that this is my 2 pence, but this is more like a 10 pound note. I could spend a whole degree dissecting this topic…