Are There Just Too Many People in the World? »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & TechnologyThe subject is overpopulation. Is our planet over-stuffed with human beings? Are we breeding to excess? These questions are increasingly poking into public debate, and from odd directions.
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Bkumm1 year, 6 months ago
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Short answer: yes.
Solving the problem will take time, but it is not insurmountable. Most of the countries in the First World would not now be replacing their populations without immigration from the Second and Third world.
The keys are simple: reproductive rights for women and men, increased wealth, increased access to health care, access to education and the buy in from the religious community.
It's really very simple to say and incredibly difficult to implement.
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canadianrancher571 year, 6 months ago
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I'm not sure if it is safe for me to comment on this since we have five kids and it had nothing to do with religion of culture, it was just a personal thing.
Last night on CBC radio they had a guy Named Lester Brown and he was basically saying the same thing. In some of the countries there will be alot of resistance because of culture but the time has come that action is needed, we don't like to consider ourselves this but after a certain population we will move from being a parasite to being a cancer.
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zplan1 year, 6 months ago
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I think family planning may fit into this issue. Also, as a rule, immigrants that the U.S (and other countries) accept are usually the best and brightest ( I think money may be involved as well); but developing nations need their best and brightest. I think many issues can be solved, it is just a matter of earnestness and a willingness to sacrifice a little time getting organized. Perhaps sacrificing some TV viewing time? Also, corruption is a major factor.(skimming, supporting both sides of a conflict,double dipping, etc.)
However, I could be wrong.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
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Hari accepts the notion that, "It will be easier for 6 billion people to cope on a heaving, boiling planet than for nine or 10 billion." But eliminating three to four billion human beings may not be such a clever solution after all. In fact, it may actually doom the rest to suffer.
Human creativity is neither finite nor predictable. We cannot survey the population and say, for example, "The second-born son of THIS man and THIS woman will be a great artist (or physicist, or biologist, or writer)." When we eliminate human beings, we are eliminating their potential for creating the solutions which would allow people to not only survive in greater numbers, but to prosper.
Would you choose abortion or infanticide if you knew that the person being destroyed was the potential savior of his(her) species? That is what Johann Hari suggests.
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ningyo1 year, 6 months ago
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the practical answer is yes, of course ,we have a finite planet with finite resources..but then the question is where is the line on the slippery slope..is 5 billion OK..probably..is 50 billion OK..no-way..so where is the cut-off..23 billion??9billion??for that reason much like abortion it's a specious question..population grows till starvation and/or war makes a cap..life begins at conception or the 91st day..you believe what you want to believe..its a question of faith
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Mdiar1 year, 6 months ago
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That would be nice... but I don't see inter-galactic happening any time soon. However, I believe that within my lifetime I will see the colonization of Mars. Or at least serious plans for such. Planning is the best thing to do and another great thing would be to somehow pull the first and second world into the first world. First world countries, even ones that were traditionally large farming families, don't reproduce very rapidly.
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BigTrevy1 year, 6 months ago
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Everyone in the world can live in Texas.
All the farmers that are paid to NOT-grow food can grow enough food for the world
There is no justification for abortion, euthanasia, or oral abortificents * for fornication
* (they're not contraception, they murder the conceived child)
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