Population Control (effects, city, price)

[newhandle]

How come no one talks about population control? It seems to me that as long as we have billions of people wanting more and more, the entire green movement is a farce. Even the green movement seems to have abandoned this. The population keeps growing and there are just so many resources. Has the green movement abandoned population control?

[jimboburnsy]

What sort of population control are you talking about? The only kind of population control that would be even remotely acceptable in a public platform for any individual or organization would be benign, vanilla discussion of the benefits of limiting your family to one or two children. Even that is going to draw boundless and vitriolic criticism of unbelieveable intensity. There are some things you just can't say or support if "widespread acceptance" and "positive exposure" are among your goals.

[Chi-town Native]

Americans have about 3% of the world's population yet consume 25% of the earth's resources.

It is certainly going to be a problem when the masses in China and India start wanting to consume at our levels, but it really isn't up to us to tell them how many children they are permitted, so all we can do is try to clean up our own acts and lead by example.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Americans have about 3% of the world's population yet consume 25% of the earth's resources.

...and there is absolutely no reason to be apologetic for that.

As far as population control I wouldn't be too concerned about it because mother nature will take care of that issue at some point. Vast numbers of people will die in the future whether it's the super bug, famine, an enormous volcanic eruption or a combination of many things....

[marmac]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Americans have about 3% of the world's population yet consume 25% of the earth's resources.

It is certainly going to be a problem when the masses in China and India start wanting to consume at our levels, but it really isn't up to us to tell them how many children they are permitted, so all we can do is try to clean up our own acts and lead by example.

and American farmers, whose production is priced on the world market, produce so much food that there is a surplus and must export a lot of their production world wide.

[forest beekeeper]

In the 70's there was a big push for zero-growth. And as a result today in the US many families are not even replacing themselves. Each family needs to produce 2.5 children if you hope that your off-spring will grow to adult hood and have off-spring themselves.

But our reproduction rate is like 1.8

Some nations of Europe their rate is down as low as 1.3


We used to be foster-parents, and we had 5 children with us [1 bio, 1 adopted, and 3 foster], we got stares. On occasion jokes about if we knew what 'causes children'.

Americans feel comfortable telling others what 'proper' limits are to the size of their families.

And if you have more than the norm, strangers will confront you in public.

We know a few 'quiver-ful' families, whose religious belief is that they want big families. Big like my grandparents had, 12 or 15 children. However large families today get a lot of grief thrown at them in public.



I have heard on Public Broadcasting that 'education' is responsible. That whenever a culture brings in 'education' to the masses, that their reproduction drops, often to below self-sustaining.

In the US now, our 'growth' is from immigration.

[Tightwad]

Originally Posted by newhandle

How come no one talks about population control? It seems to me that as long as we have billions of people wanting more and more, the entire green movement is a farce. Even the green movement seems to have abandoned this. The population keeps growing and there are just so many resources. Has the green movement abandoned population control?

Can you say "H1N1"?

There are people in this world who know that the human population is now past the planets capacity to carry them (the calculated planet capacity is 2 billion) The question is.....what length's will these people ,and/or gov't, go to cause the populations to stop growing and/or decrease.

Zero population growth had already been tried worldwide and it has failed badly. So now the unthinkable must be though about.

If something is not done to stop/reduce the number of humans on the planet millions will starve or be killed due to killer diseases that are new to human kind due to massive mutations. Already hundred so species go extinct every year due to the effects of 6+ billion humans on Planet Earth.

[my54ford]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Americans have about 3% of the world's population yet consume 25% of the earth's resources.

It is certainly going to be a problem when the masses in China and India start wanting to consume at our levels, but it really isn't up to us to tell them how many children they are permitted, so all we can do is try to clean up our own acts and lead by example.

Balls ! You think for a second the chicoms are going to anything just because we do HAHAHAHAAHAHA They will laugh at us more then the do now...

[my54ford]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

...and there is absolutely no reason to be apologetic for that.

As far as population control I wouldn't be too concerned about it because mother nature will take care of that issue at some point. Vast numbers of people will die in the future whether it's the super bug, famine, an enormous volcanic eruption or a combination of many things....

We routinely see her flush the toilet with a typhoon or hurricane sooner or later it will be a big one and wipe out half of us.......

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

...and there is absolutely no reason to be apologetic for that.

As far as population control I wouldn't be too concerned about it because mother nature will take care of that issue at some point. Vast numbers of people will die in the future whether it's the super bug, famine, an enormous volcanic eruption or a combination of many things....

Indeed. Mother Nature will balance the scales, she always does.

Originally Posted by my54ford

We routinely see her flush the toilet with a typhoon or hurricane sooner or later it will be a big one and wipe out half of us.......

And most will be surprised.