Ways to deal with overpopulation

[smurf_you]

Honestly I think the best way to deal with it is to let darwinism take over again.... I personally think that if your 4 year old is still dumb enough to put lego up his nose, then its his own fault. Or people that put things where they shouldn't be (warning label on curling iron: "do not insert into any orifice") having to deal with that on their own.... warning labels are silly and unneeded. I used to have an actual chemistry set guys, I'm only 20, I had one 10 years ago, what the hell happened between then and now? Or even being able to climb trees or use monkey bars (I kid you not, at a friend of mines school, ONE kid fall off the monkey bars and broke a tooth and his mom had the WHOLE park torn down) I miss darwinism. It would solve SO many problems.

 

[spartandude]

1. Make euthanasia legal, and where it already is make it easier.

2. Pour money into space exploration.

3. Further promote contraception, especially in developing nations.

4. Retirement-age extreme sports holidays.

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5. Pour money into space exploration.

6. Pour money into space exploration

7. Colonise Mars

8. Astartes!

 

[Leg End]

Complete. Global. Saturation?

Eh, more like Complete. GLOBAL. MASTURBATION.

 

[ScreamingNinja]

In the Grim Darkness of the future, there is only War.

 

[Viral_Lola]

There's only one way to fix this problem.


A worldwide Smash Bros Brawl tournament (Metaknight is banned).

The losers don't get to breed.

No need to thank me, the Nobel Prize is enough.

Don't forget the cash prize that goes with it.

I'm not too concerned about it just yet. Mother nature has a way of cleaning up messes.

 

[Supertegwyn]

In the Grim Darkness of the future, there is only War.

Warhammer 40k five! Whooo!

 

[Joush]

Population growth is flat or slightly negative in the developed world when you factor for immigration. The solution to overpopulation is the same way this problem was solved in Brazel.

1: Create sufficient security to allow the rest.

2: Create an economy above the level of subsistence agriculture. You don't need much money per person.

3: Get women into the workforce. Allow them basic education and employment opportitites.

4: Wide spread television and basic health care.

In every place with these factors the results are basically the same, with people having far fewer children. Overpopulation is mostly a problem in places with poor security and subsistence economics but access to very basic medicine, where child mortality rates drop from 20% to .5%

 

[Kiju]

No laws required.

No strict enforcement.

All that's needed is for the information to be spread around and shown that it is important, and most importantly: true. Then, we leave it to the people. If they want to do the intelligent, mature thing and stop popping out children by the baker's dozen, then cool!

If they don't (the more likely option)...then there is going to be overpopulation problems.

 

[Tselis]

I would go with something akin to China's One Child Policy, with increased access to contraception and more strictly enforced child limits (forced sterilizations for those who want 18 kids). Enforcement of sound policy and prevention, I think those two combined would be effective. Also, intro-fertilization would be outlawed and replaced with strict adoption protocols. You want kids and can't have your own, well guess what, there are more than enough orphans who need a good home.

 

[minimacker]

Or we, you know, colonize the parts of the earth that's pretty untouched. Siberia, Antarctica and countries with scarce population to area.

 

[Alaster Angelo]

Eh, more like Complete. GLOBAL. MASTURBATION.

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[SinisterGehe]

Education and birth control, medical-care and increase amount of jobs in the poor rural areas... Honestly, there is no other humane way.
If you want to find a morally questionable way, inhumane ways... Well just take a lesson from Nazi Germany or from the book of mass-destruction. There is plenty of inhumane ways to lower the population, but very few humane ways.

But the question is, if you choose the inhumane way, who you going to kill? African people? Chinese? Indians? I am sure you see the western countries to be something of too sacred to even kill a puppy in.

So. "Education and birth control, medical-care and increase amount of jobs in the poor rural areas" And not in the form of a church... Please, we all know where that can lead to. Basically we need to make sure that in the poor rural areas families do not need to get 10 children to guarantee their income when they can not work the fields. And by jobs I do not mean sweatshops, shoestring facilities or such, but good jobs that can self-sustain the country and give them a change to get to the international trade.

 

[Keepeas]

1. Make euthanasia legal, and where it already is make it easier.

2. Pour money into space exploration.

3. Further promote contraception, especially in developing nations.

4. Retirement-age extreme sports holidays.

I like the way you think.
That last point made me lol.

Seriously though, those are great points.
People need to stop having so many kids...

 

[brainslurper]

Have gaben announce that episode 3 has been canceled. Solution!

 

[winginson]

1) You get to have one child 'free', you want any more you have apply to the government for them. The government can refuse.

2) No child benefit after the first. So if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

3) Some way to stop people gaming the system. I dunno take unlicensed ones away and Sparta-ise them JOKE.

 

[crudus]

I did a little research on the projected population growth world wide and found the numbers to be quite disturbing.

Quick question: did you research or crunch the numbers yourself? Quite a few of those projections are done terribly and don't really take into account that people stop breeding when they can't eat. Last I check our population is just barely starting to level off(3-4 years ago).

No, no, and again no.
As a secular Humanist, the notion of selective breeding in humans (for example, eugenics) is disgusting and the notion that some deserve to live more than others is plain wrong.

For some reason it is making me smile that we have the exact opposite view points on this.

About a third of the world's population lives in Asia, mostly China and India. Overpopulation is an immediate problem for them, sure. But Europe, America, Australia and Africa have plenty of room to grow for now, though for the Aussies I guess it's a bit tougher to move out from the major cities because 99% of everything in Australia will eviscerate/poison/lay eggs in you if you so much as look at it.

Doesn't that still happen in major cities anyway?

 

[Snotnarok]

Easy solution, resurrect the nazis as zombies, we have a great big world war, America comes in to save the day (trolol). Population goes down, America won (trolling! KIDDING!!) did I mention fuck yeah?

In the case the Nazis can't be made into a zombie army, well, we could all drop our pants, moon space and hope for an alien invasion?

 

[Pandabearparade]

I dispute the notion that we're nearing population capacity. We're not. There is a -lot- of untapped arable land. Humans actually don't take up that much space, just yet. So... do nothing. The 'problem' isn't large enough to warrant inhibiting personal freedoms.