While this feels like a right answer, I would say that you can go deeper when doing a real root cause analysis.
The desire for money is rooted in a deeper problem. Money is just a means of exchange. What more money really gives you is access and opportunity. The more money you have, the more access you have to limited resources. We want more money because we don't have enough to own the things we want, do the things we want, control the things we want, etc.
Money is a means for control and fulfillment, both of which are not universally available due to hard limits (we don't have unlimited resources) and relative intangibles (the structure of society). A real root cause analysis would go deeper than "The love of money" to why money is something to be loved.
More population, more pressure on all ressources, more conflicts.
... but, my solution would not be reducing numbers, or birth control, but more and better technology to get more land and ressources available.
Also, rich people are usually not rich on childs, they can't afford to feed. So let's build technology, that makes everyone rich ...
My vote is somewhere between "mortality" or "fear of our own mortality". I'd like to think the humans to transform into a form of asceticism if the bottom layers of Maslow's hierarchy were no longer a daily/hourly issue and we knew absolutely that we had long enough to achieve the top layers of the pyramid.
Sociopathy (1 in 25 people are diagnosable as APD) and stupidity (low IQ but even more importantly - flawed reasoning patterns and weak thinking skills)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 60.9 ms ] threadThe desire for money is rooted in a deeper problem. Money is just a means of exchange. What more money really gives you is access and opportunity. The more money you have, the more access you have to limited resources. We want more money because we don't have enough to own the things we want, do the things we want, control the things we want, etc.
Money is a means for control and fulfillment, both of which are not universally available due to hard limits (we don't have unlimited resources) and relative intangibles (the structure of society). A real root cause analysis would go deeper than "The love of money" to why money is something to be loved.
Once the oil is gone, much of that population will soon follow.
More population, more pressure on all ressources, more conflicts.
... but, my solution would not be reducing numbers, or birth control, but more and better technology to get more land and ressources available. Also, rich people are usually not rich on childs, they can't afford to feed. So let's build technology, that makes everyone rich ...
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Is a very interesting illustration of it.