Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 03, 2019

Is little Calvin the “S” word?

quite incredible, Calvin

It’s awesome how Calvin is good at philosophy but awful at first grade education.

In order for that to happen, there’d have to be only a small fraction of animals and a lot more plants.

irony in motion

Fewer people anyway.

The other animals usually tend to keep things pretty well in balance.

Yeah, like they’d ever ask a kid who keeps hurting himself riding in a toy wagon.

Thanos was right!

So Calvin, go for it. Your way can’t be any worse than what we have now in the world.

Just have fewer children in the first place.

Calvin is talking about a better way the world could have been designed. He is right, there are many improvements that COULD have been made by some all powerful creator to start with. But humans are often selfish, greedy and unkind. That seems to be their basic nature and that won’t change any time soon.

I think I’ll sit this one out and let everyone have at it. Catch you all tomorrow.

“More even distribution of its resources”

Says the kid living in one of the richest countries in the world. Interesting how peopel almost always mean “I should get more and those richer than me should get less” and never “I should give up something so those who are poorer than me can have more”.

There was a time when the world’s population remained pretty steady. While people had more children, not all of them survived. Parents obviously didn’t like this arrangement. And then came Modern Medicine. Children – and adults – survived measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, and just plain old infections. (Calvin Coolidge, Jr. died from an infected foot in 1924.) Suddenly the world’s population burgeoned beyond what the earth can support.

And then came The Pill. In hindsight, we should have had The Pill first.

Nobody has ever figured out how to prevent those given the power of distribution from keeping all the best parts.

I wonder how much Bill gets for replaying these cartoons.

Fewer people would do the world a world of good!

Hmmm, that would only delay the numbers. It’s estimated the would reached 1 billion people about 1800, we’re now about 7 billion. How long before Harry Harrison’s Make Room, Make Room comes true?

totally agree

Reminds me of Thanos’ goal: his ambition of universal genocide was an attempt to solve overpopulation.

We will get back to 3 – 4 billion. but we will have to pass through 10 – 12 billion and a few famines, pandemics and wars for water first.

Thanos has a brainstorm!

Eventually, there will be no people left. Problem solved.

Good Lord,all these comments from one simple Innocent Comic meant make you Smile ???

Naturally, tigers will be the exception.

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Unite humanity with a living new language.

Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Relative to what we now breathe, drink, eat, and are irradiated by, we’re currently well on our way to that population goal of a half billion.

It’s amazing how often Calvin (and, oh yeah, I) can think of a better way to do things.

PS: Even distribution of resources would be a very bad thing when it comes to mining: It’s only feasible where the target material is highly concentrated. Not sure I’d like the price of veggies if people had to look through evenly distributed “everything vegetive” to find the beans…