When I was in sixth grade in 1984, I was encouraged by my teacher to be part of a new during the day activity group called future problem solvers. It was essentially one of those '70's ideas that finally filtered into the public school system in the early '80's. By the time it got to me, it wasn't exactly as the wiki page describes - it was run more as a method to facilitate group dynamics and critical thinking to find solutions to posed problems.
So, in the spirit of that, I ask the following question:
"If you live on a finite planet, with finite, albeit renewable, necessary resources supporting its inhabitants, how do you most efficiently distribute those resources so that everyone has what they need to live and prosper, the ecological balance is the least disturbed and the distribution is sustainable indefinitely with respect to the totality of inhabitants?"
This is not a loaded question. This is the only question facing us as a species, as this is precisely the truth of our own existence.
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