Unintended consequences filter: repercussions of world peace?
September 28, 2011 4:13 PM   Subscribe

Unintended consequences filter: repercussions of world peace?

It is the stereotypical answer given by beauty pageant contestants. It is often a way we would use one of our hypothetical "three wishes". It is world peace.

I'm interested in Mefites' thoughts on the consequences of true, worldwide, and perpetual peace. What can you foresee as being the political, environmental, social, and financial repercussions to this (sadly) imaginary scenario?
posted by Ginesthoi to Society & Culture (3 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is too broad as to be actually answerable in this venue, maybe you want to narrow things down and re-ask next week? -- jessamyn

 
Greatly reduced fertility, for one thing. Part of what would make world peace possible would be a lack of competition for limited resources.
posted by sonic meat machine at 4:15 PM on September 28, 2011


Well, one of the standard answers is that a whole lot of great new technology comes from the military, e.g., the space race, the internet, GPS.

Now, whether we could produce that technology if we devoted that kind of money to a non-military agency is an open question...
posted by losvedir at 4:23 PM on September 28, 2011


We just have to look at the Bonobo apes: we would live in a matriarchy, women would probably spend all day rubbing their clitorises together (and clitorises would probably grow larger to mimic the penis), while men would need to be prepared to mount women in their kinship group on demand.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:31 PM on September 28, 2011


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