What will we do about Population Growth/Overcrowding??

[Staurm]

Laws restricting the number of kids we can have?

There was a discussion on this on the radio recently, and someone pointed out a major flaw in this strategy - we would eventually end up with an increasingly aged population and too few young healthy adults to look after them.

For starters I'd say get rid off the war mongering totalitarian governments of the world? How? Don't ask me that.

More seriously, it might help if everyone stopped eating so much meat. I'm not suggesting everyone turns vegetarian, but we need to cut down our consumption of meat since it requires a lot more land to produce than vegetarian sources of nutrition.

Secondly, we need to start rolling out sustainable technologies to meet global energy demands, I think we should be developing solar power technology whilst we still have enough fossil fuels to do so.

Staurm Reviewed by Staurm on 12-13-2007. What will we do about Population Growth/Overcrowding?? The world population continues to rise at a very rapid pace. The population will be like double what it is now in MY lifetime. Eventually we will have to do SOMETHING. What do you think the answer is? Laws restricting the number of kids we can have? Space Colonization? Genocide? Its scary to think about because you know something DRASTIC will have to happen. The Earth simply cannot support the number of people who will be living in this world in the not so distant future? Rating: 5

[Peruvian Devil]

hmm if there was a way to control our population it would probably be a virus, a virus that completely destroys our immune so that other virus can easily kill us, oh and also it probably will be transfered when people try to procreate that way everyone trying to make more of us will be in danger. Lets face it nature is controlling the population already, at least i hope its nature :stoned:

[Stemis516]

meh, if everyone in the world gathered in the same place and stood an arms length apart form each other we could fit us all in texas.....do the calculations, seriously


were not running out of room

clearly, as demonstrated here in the states and other well off nations were not running out of food either.....its just the issue of equal and fair distribution that we need to worry about because everyone deserves food

[420izzle]

Eugenics. WAKE UP PEOPLE! The Endgame...It's already underway! And you are part of it, one way or another. Educate yourselves, draw your line in the sand and be ready.

Ron Paul 2008

[Nightcrewman]

We will have to build bigger cities in what we consider unhospitable places, like in the desert, under the sea or floating on the sea, that would take care of the where to put people situation, we would then have to find a better source of energy something clean like solar or wind power on a bigger scale than we do now.
Feeding the population would need to be by using genetically modified crops that could grow say in the desert.
We could move into space either on another planet or on huge cities floating above the earth, failing that we could all just kill and eat our neighbours, there are lots of viable solutions.

Cheers

NCM

[Coelho]

hmm if there was a way to control our population it would probably be a virus, a virus that completely destroys our immune so that other virus can easily kill us, oh and also it probably will be transfered when people try to procreate that way everyone trying to make more of us will be in danger. Lets face it nature is controlling the population already, at least i hope its nature :stoned:

This virus already exists... its called HIV. And i also would like to think that it is a nature creation, but im sure its not...

[BudGrower]

The world would be much better off with only about 4 or 5 Billion. As population grows, there will eventually be some kind of compulsory social engineering, and hopefully it will be humane, not like Hitler's Germany.

[Tony1234567890]

What will we do? Go 50 miles in ANY direction and you will be in the middle of fucking nowehere buy property, when you get old you can sell it and retire.

There is no such thing as over crowding or over population except in Tokyo. I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles and if I take the I10 (main east/west artery in SoCal) east for 20 miles I am in the middle of nowhere. If I take the I5 (again, major north/south artery in SoCal) more then 30 miles, I am in the middle of nowhere and this is Los Angeles, not Iowa, Montana, Nebreska, Idaho, Dakotas, Colorado, etc.

The population could explode by 20 in the next 100 years and we still wouldn't run out of space.

More housing = more jobs = more stores = more everything.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Overpopulation has caused starvation, disease, genocide and many other problems that a significant percentage of the world is going through. We don't see it much in our society, but it's very much out there if you care to look. And, it's going to get worse if measures aren't taken to control it.

[meatw4d]

The ground is getting crowded? No problem...