[bapimporb]

As to human nature as a whole, a lot will not make the necessary drastic changes to their lifestyles, and demand the necessary drastic changes that will cause a turnaround to the destruction of our environments in the near future. Most of it now is lipservice. People hardly look into what personal changes they could make, and even when they are aware of what they can do, they don't care to change.

At least I believe that the necessary and drastic changes as a whole will not take place until people as a whole associate more pain than pleasure from their choices (or their grandparent's choices), and decide to set new priorities. That's just the way people are. I couldn't stop doing some things till I really had reason to, such as, I quit smoking cause I want to be around to watch my grandchildren growing up. I then associated a lot of pain with checking out early due to smoking (the trigger for making a change is different for everyone). I tried on a lot of different perspectives, trying to generate enough pain to quit smoking.

As to birth control (the only palatable option I can think of now), without having given much thought to it, I think it would be difficult to implement. How does one convince some that they shouldn't have their seven children?