Ways to deal with overpopulation

[Jandau]

1. Impose restrictions on the number of kids.

2. Focus on lowering the impact of the population (no huge mansions for one douchebag when people are living cramped up like sardines), eliminating personal overindulgence.

3. Colonizing new areas. Underground colonies, underwater colonies, off planet colonization.

In short, lowering or stopping population growth, managing the existing population better so it has fewer negative effects and finding places where to shift the population.

 

[CouchCommando]

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.

Yes going out back really is like playing Fallout 3, and Mad Max (Road Warrior) was filmed just using locals and a couple of small country rural communities as a back drop =O

 

[Metzeten]

Soylent green sounds like an interesting idea... Cut overpopulation and remove world hunger. Win win.

More seriously, I don't think "overpopulation" is the real issue, there's plenty of planet to live on, the problem is economic and political. Countries have borders and governments don't want to share their cookies with the other kids.

Problem is humans are just as stupid, violent and territorial as pretty much every other predatory animal thats ever lived.

 

[similar.squirrel]

The Stop Fucking Fucking Method.

Education is the key. Of course, the countries with overpopulation problems happen to be the ones who are not exactly fond of the notion of an educated populace. Didn't our last beloved Pope tell Kenyans to 'be fruitful and multiply', incidentally?

 

[TheIronRuler]

The Stop Fucking Fucking Method.

Education is the key. Of course, the countries with overpopulation problems happen to be the ones who are not exactly fond of the notion of an educated populace. Didn't our last beloved Pope tell Kenyans to 'be fruitful and multiply', incidentally?

Congo (Republic of) has one of the highest birth rates in the world... Damn.
On the other hand, it has one of the highest child mortality rate in the world.
Do you get it now?

 

[similar.squirrel]

The Stop Fucking Fucking Method.

Education is the key. Of course, the countries with overpopulation problems happen to be the ones who are not exactly fond of the notion of an educated populace. Didn't our last beloved Pope tell Kenyans to 'be fruitful and multiply', incidentally?

Congo (Republic of) has one of the highest birth rates in the world... Damn.
On the other hand, it has one of the highest child mortality rate in the world.
Do you get it now?

Not exactly..?

 

[rob_simple]

Mass sterilisation.

No more babies, for anyone, we'll have a massive piss up and enjoy the last forty or fifty years of human existence and then draw a line under it.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Mass sterilisation.

No more babies, for anyone, we'll have a massive piss up and enjoy the last forty or fifty years of human existence and then draw a line under it.

Look at "Children of Men". It won't end very well.
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The Stop Fucking Fucking Method.

Education is the key. Of course, the countries with overpopulation problems happen to be the ones who are not exactly fond of the notion of an educated populace. Didn't our last beloved Pope tell Kenyans to 'be fruitful and multiply', incidentally?

Congo (Republic of) has one of the highest birth rates in the world... Damn.
On the other hand, it has one of the highest child mortality rate in the world.
Do you get it now?

Not exactly..?

It's not only education that is lacking. I won't describe everything here becuase I couldn't be arsed to do it properly, so I'll just put it in points.
1. Low quality and quantity food
2. Low quality Healthcare
3. Low quality and quantity of education
4. Tradition is dominant
5. Population is poor
6. No social safety net --> must have children so that they can take care of you
7. High child mortality --> More births per woman --> women getting married and pregnant at alarming ages.
8. Low quality infrastructure -->pockets of isolated citizens living in tribes --> above problems will continue to exist
And more points... Like I said earlier, can't be arsed.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Technology shall provide. When our ancestors were cold, they invented fire. When they needed to catch food, they invented a spear. When we require more food and space on this planet, we'll find a way. I don't believe overpopulation will be such a big problem, maybe it'll be problem for some period of time but I think we'll get on top of it...The thing I'm worried is if we'll have enough raw materials

 

[The Gatherer]

Harking back to a recent thread (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.315537-You-can-now-fuse-any-two-things?page=1) I think the perfect method of population controll would be to merge blizzard and bethesda. That'd teach em

 

[sam42ification]

Genocide??? If the bible is to be believed it worked the first time. The ice is melting i think a giant flood is inevitable.

 

[John the Gamer]

I read last week that for the first time in recorded human history there are more people who're overweight (1.250.000.000 (1.25 miljard, or 1.25 billion))

Then people who go hungry everyday (1.100.000.000 (1.1 miljard, or 1.1 billion))

So I'm guessing we still have plenty of room and food to go around, it's just that the rich steal it all and poor people on africa don't get it because of corrupt officials and rebels that roam the continent.

And we could always launch all criminals, old people (over 80?) and terminally ill to Venus. It's not like they'd survive atmospheric entry anyways, and we could have them take some obsolete space debris with them whilst they're leaving earth's orbit.

 

[razerdoh]

I was watching the news a few days back and there was a quick report on world population. This year there will be approximately 7 billion people living on Earth. I did a little research on the projected population growth world wide and found the numbers to be quite disturbing. While I was researching I started pondering about the issue of population control and how society would rationalizes euthanizing humans or restrict certain people from reproducing and even going as far as genetically altering humans to restrict longevity. I'm curious to see everyone's thoughts on this controversial topic and please keep it civil.

Its simple: poor people needs to stop fucking...

 

[RanD00M]

Do what China does to some extent. Only two kids per parents. That way we drastically reduce the birthrates without eliminating anyone.

 

[Doitpow]

Colonize Mars.
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this...a thousand times this.

or europa or venus of something, I bet if we found a way to strip all the shit out of venus' atmosphere and use it as fuel venus would be the new Vegas.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It's not really 7 billion. It's only about 7,000,000,000 people (i.e. seven thousand million). I still don't understand why Americans use the short scale...

I actually though their way made more sense, but that's just me it seems.

I don't really see any way to reduce the population without being hugely unethical. You would have to get people to agree to doing things like getting vasectomies or something, but I doubt you would get enough people to agree to it. If you force people to do things I think that's too unethical to be a good idea.

Mass sterilisation.

No more babies, for anyone, we'll have a massive piss up and enjoy the last forty or fifty years of human existence and then draw a line under it.

Wait a minute... Your plan to save humanity from overpopulation is to wipe it out through underpopulation?

 

[Kekkles]

This reminds me of a VERY similar situation, what's it called... 2012?

That massive hoax.

Someone's been playing too much Deus Ex. IT'S NOT REAL!

 

[Lord Kloo]

The thing about stuff that gets bigger is that eventually everything gets too big and just collapses in on itself.. So my plan, just wait it out, eventually everything will go to s**t and normalize.. In the mean time I'll be busy drinking coke in my survival bunker.

Besides over-population isn't going to be a problem.. we'll run out of oil before 2050 so that'll hopefully kill off a few hundred million, here and there..

 

[Jakub324]

So, how will we determine what is the perfect way to handle kids. Nobody is perfect at handling kids.

The system wouldn't work unless a perfect idea of handling could be created, which it can't.

It would be an incredibly abused system, especially in today's political world.

You would have radical liberals trying to make it so that conservative couples don't get to raise kids because they would be filling the child's mind with those wrong conservative ideas.

And the same would happen with the radical conservatives.

As well as radical atheists calling for sanctions against religious people breeding and spreading false ideas of there being a god.

And the radical religious people calling the same against atheists and other religions against religions.

It just can't be done because there are way too many kinds of people with their own agendas that it would become a bureaucratic as well as social nightmare.

But it shouldn't be done anyway because it takes away freewill. You would have a perfectly nice couple that is refused clearance to have kids because they failed one or two small sections of a complex test. That is just plain wrong.

You can't deny that some people are less perfect with kids than others. I think we should do something now before it's a problem, and then life will suck less. Yes, it takes free will away, but it's necessary.