I don't agree when they say they can provide global abundance. If we are capable to build a rocket to go to Mars, not everyone will be able to go, at least, not until the technology evolves. There will always be this kind of situations. So there will be some privileged people who will go to Mars. The solution to this is to select the best candidates by objective criteria.
Also, the Venus Project does not take into account population control, which I believe to be important. They say that in a civilized world, people would control their reproduction, which is basically correct. In developed countries we don't have the problem of demographic explosion. There will always be groups who will multiply exponentially, like some religious sects where contraception is forbidden and other groups or individuals. That is enough for another demographic explosion. Religion may never disappear, no matter how much we try. Of course, population control does not mean the killing of anyone but it does have bad connotations.
A resource based economy simply means that we need to take into account the Earth’s resources. Of course, this is not only absolutely logical, but it's necessary. The current system is absurd, it doesn’t take into account the Earth’s resources or its carrying capacity. This system takes into account only money. Money makes us blind to reality. The reality is that we need to live in harmony with nature, the alternative is to die, because we cannot live outside nature, we are a part of it, whether we like it or not.
We are like a car going full speed towards the end of the road and we are too busy doing other stuff to notice.
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