Are There Just Too Many People in the World? »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 5 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, 5 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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Locky121 year, 5 months ago
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reproductive rights for women and men. READ: murder through abortion, and make the sexual act the center of relationship. Great plan! Look at what it's doing for our poorest people! We have MORE single-parent homes, not less. Why? Because the man pressures the woman into having sex because if she doesn't put out, someone else will, and if the condom breaks, and you're not on the pill, then go have an abortion.
Roe V Wade is 35 years old. We still have ghettos in the U.S.
Go Forth and Multiply. Have some respect for Human Life and have some respect for the sexual act!
The resources were there 200 years ago, there'll continue to be there.
The people you think worthy of death just might come up with the solutions we need.
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canadianrancher571 year, 5 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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Locky121 year, 5 months ago
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Murder through abortion is the answer??
An Anti-Vatican??
What elitist tripe!
35 million lives were lost in the United States alone since Roe V Wade, turning the woman's uterous into the biggest gulag in history.
Have some respect for human life and know that we were made for the earth not the other way around!
We proved that 18th Century no-nothing then, we'll prove him wrong again and again!
"Go Forth and Mulitiply"
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memestryker1 year, 5 months ago
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Locky12, abortion was common and more dangerous before Roe v. Wade--which is the only reason they finally legalized it; now it's just safer. Criminalizing it again isn't the answer, because the black market will just take over, and already has in areas where abortion is now limited.
If we'd help poor women get birth control and morning-after medication, studies suggest fewer women would seek abortions. In fact, Planned Parenthood is credited with doing more to reduce abortions than any other group--even by some members of the religious right.
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zplan1 year, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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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Locky121 year, 5 months ago
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We DO NOT have finite resources.
Oil is finite.
Coal is finite.
Resources, however, are INFINITE.
Just because we don't know how to make cars run on seawater doesn't mean we'll never be able to do it!
Just because we live on land now, DOESN'T mean we won't find a way to live ON the water in the future!
Use your imaginations! Scientists are! Have some faith in Human Life! Have some optimism for human ingenuity!
ANYBODY who says there are too many people on this planet is most definately a FLAT EARTHER.
This article is nothing but pessimism and cynicism. Neophile may like articles like these because he refuses to believe in the existence of God.
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Locky121 year, 5 months ago
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We DO NOT have finite resources.
Oil is finite.
Coal is finite.
Resources, however, are INFINITE.
Just because we don't know how to make cars run on seawater doesn't mean we'll never be able to do it!
Just because we live on land now, DOESN'T mean we won't find a way to live ON the water in the future!
Use your imaginations! Scientists are! Have some faith in Human Life! Have some optimism for human ingenuity!
ANYBODY who says there are too many people on this planet is most definately a FLAT EARTHER.
This article is nothing but pessimism and cynicism. Neophile may like articles like these because he refuses to believe in the existence of God.
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Mdiar1 year, 5 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, 5 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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