Choose a world issue that you feel strongly about (Overpopulation) and find out peoples oppinions. Also, formulate strategies to solve the problem. An informal essay is fine.
So, yeah..dealing with the first part...whats everyone's view on overpopulation, and do y'all have any ideas about how to stop it from happening? Thanks in advance, all. {^_^}
Meanwhile the smart people will enslave everyone else, and torture sessions will be tech support call roleplaying, supervised by Khyron and Maradon for historical accuracy.
And on overpopulation, if everyone didn't have 2.5 kids there wouldn't be a problem. 1 kid per family for awhile and no longer will we have this problem of humans up to your arm pits.
Not necessarily in that order. You could go a little further and have the government force abortions or set limits on the amount of children a family is allowed.
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If Governments would start offering people incentives to permanently sterilize themselves.
Offer people a considerable sum of money to remove themselves from the gene pool. Many people who we don't want breeding would stop if offered cash, and being Childfree would no longer be looked down on.
Of course, there would be plenty of people up in arms about it... But something needs to be done. The planet cannot support the growth rate we've got. Something's gotta give...
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There was much rejoicing when Zair said this:
The Catholic church's war against birth control and abortions certainly doesn't help.
But it really doesn't stop anyone, does it? Quit looking for reasons to bash religions.
Anyways, in order for there to be a "cure" to overpopulation, one of three things would have to happen:
-The entire world would have to give a united "Woah! Is THIS what we've been doing?" and wise up.
-There would have to be a law against having sex that everyone would freely follow.
-We'd have to eradicate key individuals as a routine.
None of these are going to happen.
And there'd have to be legal controls. "Hey you guys can have 2 kids. After that, you have to get clearance for a third (not actually restrict people legally from having them, but require them to sign a voucher stating that they understand what's going to happen legally), and understand that your taxes, etc will be higher. If a child dies, you will of course be allowed to have another." Too many people 1. get too much damned money for uncontrollably having too many kids from the government and 2. have kids and then ignore them or don't take responsibility for them.
That's what you'd have to do. Unfortunately it won't ever happen/there's no way to get everyone on board.
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We were all impressed when Zair wrote:
The Catholic church's war against birth control and abortions certainly doesn't help.
They also don't want you having sex before marriage or having sex without the purpose of conception. In other words, they only want you to have sex so you can have a kid. Look at how much people listen to that. Bring your bashing somewhere else please.
Back on topic, some countries have implemented legal measures. You can have X amount of kids, but if you have any more you are fined and have to pay more taxes. Basically tries to make you avoid having a child unless you really want to have one.
Part of the topic was asking for ways to help fight overpopulation. I believe that getting rid of abstinence only education and replacing it with sexual education that teaches abstinence AND the use of contraceptives would help. [ 10-31-2003: Message edited by: Zair ]
Verylong term would be to try to colonize/terraform Venus, possibly Mars.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Poor people still do it.
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Also wars were always good scources for population controls.
Mostly though in this age the biggest thing thats going to effect population are diseases. Namely aids at the moment. Watch Africa in about 10 years or so. I think its like 1/3 to 2/3 of many African countries are infected with aids.
Also eventually people cap out a land's capacity to feed that population, due to globalization we've negated this effect to some degree.
Natural diasters played roles, but except for earthquakes and tornados/hurricanes they don't have much effect.
I'd say biggest thing now is like what China is doing to curb over population. But at the moment we down really have over population. The world is far from being overly populated, what the problem is, is that people are congregating in areas far to densely. That the best solution, relocating people into more unsettled areas etc. If the population densities were spread out much more then the cramping effect felt in many cities would be far less aparent.
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But it really doesn't stop anyone, does it? Quit looking for reasons to bash religions.
Actually, it does. The Catholic Church is doing a lot of work in Africa and their missionaries are not introducing people to the concept of contraceptives. As a result, two things are happening: a population boom, and unchecked spread of HIV.
Not to mention the small, but not insignificant number of people in more developed countries who won't use birth control because the church said not to. Religion may not dictate such details in your life, but it does in the lives of many others. The church's stance against birth control has also led "christian scientists" to extoll the many imagined health risks of birth control, scaring even more people away from it. And then there's the fact that the religious right has crusaded against proper education about birth control, to the point where they don't even teach you how to use a condom in school -- a stance that I can guarantee you is based on the church's viewpoint on the matter.
Don't underestimate the impact of human stupidity, nor the impact of religion on wielding the power of that stupidity. [ 10-31-2003: Message edited by: Drysart ]
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Naimah had this to say about (_|_):
1 kid per family for awhile and no longer will we have this problem of humans up to your arm pits.
Good Idea, REALLY bad in practice. China is being raped by the policy. Yes, it reduced population growth. But, what if the child isn't what the parents wanted, a girl, rather than a boy? That is what is happening in China, a large portion of girl's born are abandoned, and often die. Those that are found, and put in orphaniges, are often adopted by parents in different nations. Soon china will be faced with a disporportion in its population, like %5 more men then women. Its not hard to see the problems that will lead to.
That could curb the population.
So could a revolution
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We were all impressed when Elvish Crack Piper wrote:
So your saying we should infect china?
Actually, it kinda sounds like Sashu is saying Nature keeps shit in balance in its own way.
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Naimah Model 2000 was programmed to say:
You're typing much nicer. No longer do you have the bane of the red dot.And on overpopulation, if everyone didn't have 2.5 kids there wouldn't be a problem. 1 kid per family for awhile and no longer will we have this problem of humans up to your arm pits.
The main problem is in Africa and such where the average birth rate is ~8.7 children per woman (that's the last figured I heard, anyway)
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Karnaj stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
The world is overpopulated?
I think the thought of the world population doubling in the last 50 years should cause at least a bit of concern
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Drysart had this to say about (_|_):
Destroyer of Worlds
*sighs* The title is so true.
