Power
<Population growth has to be limited. Consumption per capita has to be limited. Pollution and other forms of environmental degradation has to be limited. Inhumanity in all it's forms has to be limited.
Raw, naked political power. Centralized control over every human activity. That's what this is about, and if you actually gave the enactment of these concepts any real thought instead of letting your emotions run off with you, you'd realize this.
You know, every centralized society I've ever seen somehow doesn't seem to mind resources being squandered by the leadership. It's the rest of the people eating grass and tree bark.
You live in a cabin with bears?