ok so let say overpopulation is killing the earth... and the vax is population control sterilization or death by seemingly natural means 5-10 years away... The question is Would you knowingly take the vax if it truly meant saving the earth... And if not are you fine with the planet getting trashed?
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Over population is going from the assumption of one Thomas Malthus, who said that London couldn't continue sustaining its population, which has since increased many fold. There are constant claims that we will eventually reach a population that is incapable of being sustained, but it never happens, and over time we get better and better about using clean methods (on average) and so now for example you see areas like Africa contribute massively to emissions despite their very low industrial base. As our technological capabilities increase, so too will our capacity to fix that which we must use. Here is a good primer on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV18Xx5EkaE EDIT: to go along with your framing assuming those premises, no, I would say we should put all resources into finding ways to colonize other planets. Killing off the population would only damn us to using up the planet in that scenario before we could spread out to other planets and possibly find a long term solution. The only way would be forward.
it's said a gram of prevention is worth an ounce of cure... I put a lot of hope in space exploration and material sciences but idk to much to suggest the vax is lethal and well depressing as fuk