Link: https://thewalrus.ca/mega-barns-along-the-us-border-cause-a-big-stink-in-manitoba/

Riverview, the Minnesota-based agricultural company that made the statement, is set to test the goal as it adds to its network of mega dairies by building two facilities along the North Dakotan stretch of the Red River before it flows north into Canada. One barn, near Hillsboro, will contain 25,000 head of cattle; the other, outside Abercrombie, will house 12,500. Together, the two will contain nearly the same number of producing dairy cows as the entire province of Manitoba (and will more than quadruple North Dakota’s quantity).

Sounds theres gonna be a lot of cows and the plans for cleaning up all the cow poop are a but shoddy. So there will probably be a lot of run off into the river, which will then flow into lake Winnipeg. This might make the water in lake Winnipeg kind of nasty as it will literally fill the lake up with cow poop and other pollutants. Not the kind of water want to go swimming in

Notice how elegantly this illustrates the Principle that

1. the more our technology multiplies our effect, AND
2. the more-crowded our world is,

THEN

1. the more our-action impinges-on/affects/dents others' lives!

THAT is why the more powerful our technology is AND the more-crowded our world is, the more our own responsibilities embiggen & our self-centered rights ensmallen,

& the responsibilities of civilization-as-a-whole AND the rights of civilization-as-a-whole both embiggen, see?

It isn't an ideological or political question, at all!

It's simply a systems principle.

No "flag" or "identity" or "ideology" changes it!

It just is!

Any person being the sole bush-person living on an entire continent, can be as irresponsible as they want, & Nature will simply erase them, when they're gone.

But civilization, enforced through industrial-technology, can BREAK Nature's viability, planetwide.

This is why The Great Filter ( the next 6-decades of ever-escalating global deathmatch )

FORCES world-species to choose between REACTING ( ideology/prejudice/assumption-river-aka-"religion"-including-atheist-fundamentalism ) vs Correct-Reasoning paradigm!

IF populations won't accept that systems-principles rule, THEN .. populations enforce self-extinguishment.

At any scale, all the way up to ALL of humankind.

It's our own self-centered ignorance, that is the real opponent of our species' viability, nothing "other".

How cleanly this example illustrates the principle.

Beautiful.

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I don’t know if I understood everything you’re saying here but I think I got the gist of it. Basically, individuals acting alone without the aid of technology can be assholes without wide spread negative consequences. But these same selfish tendencies, when found in large groups aided by technology, can cause a lot damage. Is that a fair summary?