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This is probably the number one reason I'd be giddy about it.
Our species desperately needs to learn some humility. We're literally destroying our only habitat out of blind arrogance and greed.
If they didn't come in peace. We're boned, and everyone's problems are over.
If they did, at some point they're still going to need to use corrective action on our arrogant monkey asses.
Because all human history.
As an adult, it's the biggest plothole in Trek to me. Species so far ahead of us taking our lead only a couple hundred years after we took a break bombing each other and managed to cobble together a single, shitty warp drive a Vulcan toddler could probably improve the design of at a casual glance. If there was a consortium of species, at our stage we'd correctly need to beg to get provisional Jr. membership after 1,000 years of probationary observation.
They really shouldn't take us until our species agrees to stop letting people starve while others grow obese just to get the fat sucked out of them to do it again.
That's why I really like the Mass Effect universe where humanity is more of an underdog species. Same with Babylon 5.
Obesity isn't a social inequality problem, except in the sense that obese people are more likely to be poor, and to suffer obesity due to stress, poor nutrition, and addiction. Obese people are not oppressing anyone. If you want to talk about food waste while people starve, then talk about the corporations throwing perfectly good food in dumpsters that they put a padlock on to stop homeless people from dumpster diving.
Sure, obesity was a sign of privilege and oppression 200 years ago, before modern agricultural practices such as the use of pesticides and heavy machinery. These days, there isn't too little food, there's too much. Starvation isn't a problem of natural scarcity, and certainly not a problem of people eating too much. It's a product of artificial scarcity, wherein good food is thrown away because people can't pay for it. Your political theory is two centuries out of date. It's time to stop hating fat people.
But you can see obese people being obese and they are small so that makes them an easier target of scapegoating than the big company that wastes food out of sight.
Plus they making excess food compared to what they can sell locally doesn't mean it's suddenly magically cheap to get that food to the places it's needed.
Sure, China can finance it's global distribution if cheap good, but that'd be communism and we don't want to resort to that to help people. Better just leave that to private charity. So they can individually be less effective even considering the best intentions (it's never the best intentions).
This is just posadism
Well they did say that most governments were wiped out in WW3 so that probably had a big impact on why