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I think part of this paradox is that world peace just wouldn't be peaceful, or at least, not pleasant.
World peace with this many people on the planet, would assume that all these billions stay alive. That places a huge burden on the natural world. Just sustaining our current population would eventually bring the extinction of millions of other oraganisms.
So, to make this world peace happen, it would require, at the very least, that people change their paradigms as far as consumption, making babies, etc. Well, while someone from northern California or Holland might be okay with having one kid or less, someone from India or Africa might be depressed at the prospect of only having one kid. Likewise, the quality of life that most Americans are used to would definately have to change for the worse in order to stop our war on the environment. These changes might be so drastic, and against our respective cultures, that the outcome could indeed be a living hell to the people in this peaceful world.
Peace is not possible.
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