environment
A law that can make a thousand other laws redundant and
unnecessary while making the absolutely indispensable ones more potent. A law
that achieves many long-aspired goals and thwarts many imminent catastrophes at
once. A law that causes global prosperity, population control and environmental
sustainability at once. The law which ought to have existed before any other
law. Such is the PFC law.
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The problems of environment, war, regional conflict,
injustice and poverty have remained for too long on this planet. Because of
these problems, the majority of us now live below acceptable human standards. If
we had set a standard of human living and abided by it, we could have prevented
these problems.
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As the proportion of the prosperous increases, more
people will be able to afford environmentally friendly resources and
technologies. This would lead to a gradual decline in the number and magnitude
of floods, famines, droughts and earthquakes. Before every child is born, it
will be ensured that it will have the necessary natural resources required to
support it through ensuring that it is born into a minimum level of financial
capability. There will be no need to encroach upon or overexploit animal and
plant habitat. We can then continue our progress without causing a threat to our
own survival or to the survival of other species.
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If they don’t use these environmentally safe fuels,
machines and technologies as required by environmental laws, when they can
afford it, then the law would be quite justified in punishing them, too. But
instead, if the poor multiply and continue to be a significant portion of the
earth’s population, who cannot use anything but the cheapest and most polluting
machines and fuels, in order to survive, the destruction of the environment will
continue and we will be left helpless to save the environment.
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If and when the poor person reaches a certain financial
status, at any time of his life, at which time he is no longer considered poor,
only then should that person attain the right to produce offspring. Then the
poor will no longer be multiplying. Offspring hence born, would be born to
people with enough financial capability to live in an environmentally safe
manner. These offspring would both learn the environmentally friendly lifestyle
from their parents and be able to afford such a lifestyle. The basic financial
capability of their parents would ensure education, healthcare and proper
nutrition to the offspring, which would in turn ensure that the offspring
wouldn’t be forced into poverty. If all nations on earth would require basic
financial capability as a precondition for becoming a parent, environmentally
hazardous machines, fuels and technologies that are commonplace today, could
become things of the past. Environmentally friendly fuels, machines and
technologies, though comparatively more expensive, could be made the standard.
This is how we can save the environment. How wonderful it would be to see the
earth returning to equilibrium as the burden on its resources starts reducing
with the end of the multiplication of the poor! How much more safer would we
feel in this world! Fewer people would have diseases caused due to pollution.
Most importantly, the earth would stop retaliating with earthquakes, hurricanes,
floods and other natural calamities.
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