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What do you think about the world population now, and in the future? Do you think it will continue to rise? Is it causing problems now? Do you think they world could support more people?
I think we need to cut-down on the world population. It's imhuman to say such things, but if we don't cut-down on the population eventually, the world will get crowded, and will run out of resources. :eek:
So whats your thoughts, feelings, or points on this matter?
I think the world population really is getting out of hand. About a month ago, there was a little news coverage on this issue. My take on this is that
we should start having only a maximum of 2 kids per family (after the first baby, just use lots and lots of protection). Maybe there should be a rule
that if there is a third baby, there should be a penalty / fine (like a percentage of your annual income etc.). The world has a lot of resources
to go, but you're right that we will eventually run out. China is already packed, which is why they have a rule that you can have only 2 kids (I'm not
too sure about this. My friend from China told me about it.). We should have and enforce the same rule.
Hell, I knew this since I was like 5. Back then I thought the same thing as whatshisface about the two kids, but now I am thinking exterminate everyone that goes to prison for a serious crime or a second offence + the two kids deal.
2 kids? It's a one-child policy for sure. Which is why there are more males than females because of a preference for boys to carry the family name. One of the many downsides of that policy..
Ja overpopulation is definitely a problem, but interesting to note that Thomas Malthus in the 1700s or so wrote about this. While we could use "moral restraint" <--funny :) and kill people. Another case would be overpopulating to the extent where food production cannot keep up and billions starve to death. Thus keeping the population in check.
Just ban computers for a week, half the worls population wont be able to cope and will die :D
Or just give everyone drugs so they overdose, its a high and easy way to solve the problem.
It should be 2 kids a family, but... if you do have a 3rd child you just receive no support for them :)
Not all the drug addicts would die. They would just become utter retards.
One child? It is a thought. Oh! I got one! For every male found legally cheating on his wife he gets his d&^% cut off! And for the wemon that cheat..... Ugh, you don't want to know.
Do you think it will rise? well hell yes theres nothing to stop it...
On a longer scale moving to other planets is one option... but thats nowhere in the near future.
I read somewhere that in 2050 the population will be around 10 billion, in 2100 around 11 billion, 2150 around 11,5 billion and it keeps leveling off because of the child policies and shit. Not sure how reliable it is though.
Dude.. you cant just stop catholics from having sex, or any other religion that restricts contraception. You cant just go killing babies either. World population is gona rise, but there will be more technical advances for more space; having more flats and skyscrapers, but so its more like houses on top of one another (XD) and like.. building cities over water, and making man made continents. And the moon! WOOO the moon ^_^
Make it mandatory vasectomy after 1 baby. Free of charge ;).
That's actually a wicked idea.. but.. if you marry to another woman who wishes to bear your child, then you're buggered. But i suppose that would get rid of the increasing amount of abortions also... :D
I don't really think the world population is that much of a problem for right now or for the next 100 years. I used to, but you just have to remember that the more people that are born the more that die. I haven't heard anything about it being a problem though, so I'm pretty un informed on the matter. The world still has alot of unpopulated land that we can use for overcrowding if it gets too bad.
If there is more people theres a better chance someone will find out things we want to know (cure for cancer) and there will be more people to make the sciences for us to live on some other place. I've heard that people in china who only have like 1 child get help from the government to do special things because they need to be careful with the population over there. They would probably start doing that for the rest of the world if the population starts to get too big.
Trees die at a faster rate too now because of it. More polution. Etc. Just destroy all technology and rich people and everyone will die because theyre too stupid to fend for themselves.
lol this is just like enders game. 2 kids and if you have a 3rd hes/shes a shunned outcast for life.
i was thinking just that, or this one book, shit forgot the name of it. :confused: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Vermilion
AIDS is a form of population control.
I was thinking, allowing 1 child to born naturally. Then you can have more kids, but only by adoption. ;)
It would solve alot of issues.
the one child policy doesnt work in china... because if they find out its a girl they abort it.. and if its a male they keep it and spoil it.
so now theres too many men and not enough women in china... so they move elsewhere :(
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Yea the ratio of men to women is like 117:100. Because sons pass on family name, pass on inheritance, since daughters "become" part of the grooms family once married, girls are undesirable and some become abandoned.
There isn't a penalty to giving birth to twins etc though. <-- becoming exploited, many taking medicine/drugs to induce multiple birth.
We can't stop overpopulation, we're too moral kill just for the purpose of population control (irony), and we all have an instinct to reproduce.
China will eventually realise they have to do more, and work with those issues.
I say we DON'T cure cancer. Along with AIDS.
Allow them to be treated, but not cured. Don't make people suffer from pain. Allow people the choice of "euthanasia", if they have a terminal disease, or condition.
Hopefully, science will find way's of making other planet's, or making new continents, our home aswell. =)
[ENTER]cheat nuke world
Haha. I don't think that will help. ;)
i think indians and africans should stop popping out 50 kids :)
but somehow it will even out... people die.. people are born.. the people that are here now (20-39) wont be here in 60-70 years from now so the new people will be lol atleast i hope it evens out haha
Yeah, but the problem is that more peopel are being born, then people are dying... :|
well then lets kill some :D
I like to look at this particular situation through the eyes of my friend George Carlin. For those of you who don't know George, go stand in the corner. He's a famous comedian. If you listen to his new CD, he talks all about suicide, and how there should be a suicide channel on cable TV. He thinks that people would willingly kill themselves just to be on TV. I would have to agree with him on that point. We could just have a 24/7 TV channel featuring volunteers who commit suicide. People these days (especially in America for some strange reason) would love to watch people killing themselves from the safety of their own homes.
Populations will get out of hand, but then they'll level themselves out. Biology dictacts that each square mile/kilometer can only sustain a certain habitation capacity. Once we max out the usable area's we'll start competing and eventually dying off and the population will reduce significantly.
But there's also other factors that can reduce population quickly. Wars, famine, other environmental disasters. Tsunami's and earthquake's have destroyed many highly populated areas recently and there's a really good chance that they will continue to happen because we abuse the Earth so much. There's been two tsunami's, countless earthquakes and now a war which escalates with each passing day.
We should worry more about the ressources we're losing because of these disasters happening around us, rather than what we use over the next 50 years. A war can wipe out years and years of ressources in months.
You people who say nature will take its course and only some will die don't know anything. Let's say a certain animal likes a type of food but all of the food dies in that general area because of the animals in that area of the same species. It's too far to walk to another place that has the same type of food, so the animals have a few that die so less of the food is eaten, and the food population grows again. Humans control all of this "food" on earth, pretty much. So when this "food" (Resorces and such) runs out, we will all die because we will have killed every spot on earth with that "food".
there is no really problem here it seems there is because of the "baby-boomers" they poped out on avarage 4-5 kids and now them 4-5 kids per cople are reaching middle age and the avarage family size is back down to 2-3 kids so 50-70 years from now when all the baby boomer kids are gone the popualtion will be WAY down back to a reasonable level so in reality there is no problem :cool:
Apparently if you get your arm/leg hair cut off it grows back longer and faster...
I think we should just leave the situation as it is. And also, theres no problem with overcrowding. Youve heard of palm islands in Dubai? Man made island, now imagine if the world set aside billions, and hundreds of thousands of workers to build a continent extending out from US, or Europe.
Also, the problem is gona be fine for the next 75years. Who cares if rules are introduced after we die?
Yeah isnt it called "The World" as it is shaped like the real continents.
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lol I love the "who cares when we're dead" apathy :) That's most likely what had been going on with global warming.
Population grows exponentially, there is no leveling off anywhere, at any point in history. Even after the deaths of millions during the world wars, there was still more people than 50 years prior.
It will keep growing until we outgrow food production and resources. Since there is enough food to feed every person (though spread unequally), we haven't outgrown anything yet. So until food production can't keep up with feeding people, we're not in trouble yet. Although living conditions will worsen.
the reason for more people after the world wars: baby boom... was in the 60s and 70s? if im not wrong
we dont have a baby boom right now most people now have 2 kids 3 at the max
so evenutally it will even out because most of the "baby boomers" will be dying off at the same time
The one after WWII was from mids 40s - late 50s, followed by a baby bust. The next baby boom was like 80s to early 90s, followed by a baby bust like now? Probably :)
It's pretty reasonable to suggest that most of us ( not metalskin :)) are the baby boom children of post-war baby boomers. Seeing as how the baby boom most of us were born from is the largest birth rate since post-WWII, it doesn't really bode well for us in the long run.
Our generation is still young, our children could be the next baby boom.
The thing is, people are having more children, and having them younger these days. ;)
