Solutions for over-population...
It seems inevitable to me. Soon, or a few more thousand years (or longer, I don't know). What should we do when we realize there are too many people and too little resources or space? Genocide? Law-enforced suicide, or a morally driven 'opt-in' suicide. Moving underground, colonizing space, fixing children at birth... total war? All of the solutions seem immoral and or unnatural.
What would be the best way to deal with too many people?
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I believe technology will help a lot. From poo-powered buses to using human hair as conductors, we will find out more and more ways to put human life in tune with our planet. Of course, our planet is very limited, and we might reach a point where technology can't keep up or a point when it's too late. I doubt (or really don't want to believe) that this will happen though. As it can be seen in developed countries, as a higher quality of life comes, people tend to have fewer children. The moral solution seems to be concentrating technological efforts in sustainability and heavily supporting the development of poor countries. 71 days ago | Tagged As: Technology
Ways to slow down the possibilities: Legalize all abortion Legalize Suicide Legalize Euthanasia in all circumstances (if you don't have money to keep a brain dead person alive, pull the plug). Use the death penalty more often (child rape, no insanity pleas, etc.) 71 days ago | Tagged As: Enforce Death Policies
Abortions are legal, and sometimes (in China for instance), they are mandatory under certain circumstances, but people will still go on with the pregnancy and have children, even if it means escaping shelter (leaving the country, family, home). Suicide isn't illegal, really, because law can only react to an event (unless you can definitely prove that someone will or is about to do something), so what, handcuff the cadavers? Assuming medical technology get's better, someone who is "on the plug" in a few thousand years won't be on it for long. And about using the death penalty, Hitler tried this on innocent people... When you're killing off all of the worst people, who will be next in line? It'll get closer and closer to innocent every day. 71 days ago
All abortions aren't legal. consider late term abortions. They are only legal in certain states. People are constantly put on suicide watch. Just eliminate this and we won't have a problem. And saying that having the death penalty will result in us eventually just killing innocent people all the time is like saying that having marijuana legalized will eventually lead to us legalizing Crack and Meth. Fact is, if you can prove that someone is a murderer or child rapist, they should be executed. I'm not saying execute based on ONLY the decision of the jury. I'm saying proven beyond a reasonable doubt (which is how cases are trialed anyway). When you're killing off all of the worst people, that's it. No one else is next in line. Might as well say "If you're curing all diseases, what will be next? Taking away the ability to think?" 70 days ago | Tagged As: Enforce Death Policies
It really doesn't matter what we do. If resources get scarce, we will be forced to act. If we manage to find the resources to maintain a larger population, nature will be forced to act (an epidemic or something). Either way, when we get to the point where something has to give..., something will give. 71 days ago
Well, smart social systems, space smart architecture, taking advantage of new technologies that make use of things like sky-scraper farms, steps in the technology we already have that can quickly turn ocean water into clean drinking water on a large scale, and switching to green energy, would allow literally trillions of people to live on the earth just fine. And likely if we become bright enough as a whole to pursue these things, by the time we reach the breaking point of however many trillions that would be before the earth still cannot maintain the human population; by that point it seems by the rate our technology increases we will be able to live in space, under the ocean, etc if we choose. But given that we're mostly kind of idiotic and superstitious still and we're breeding faster than our brains are evolving, 1. convince churches to stop with the anti-condom bs already. 2. put a limit on the number of children people are allowed, similar to what China does, and enforce fixing males after X number of kids (fixing as in making it so they don't make sperm, not so they can't have kids. 70 days ago | Tagged As: Technology
Neuter those that continue to have kids when drawing welfare. Quit trying to get people to live longer. We just throw them in rest homes anyway. Encourage more people to let car warm up in closed garage. Make all drugs legal. These should help slow down the growth rate. 70 days ago | Tagged As: Enforce Death Policies
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