POPULATION CONTROL

fear4freedom
fear4freedom Posts: 920
edited December 2012 in A Moving Train
Ok I would like to see how we can control the population, take care of mother earth, find a good population number for our mother earth to have, and explore ways to achieve that number.

There are 7-8 billion people on earth. What is the ideal number for mother earth to handle?

I believe that 3-4 billion is probably max for mother earth. You?

How can we achieve that number? All ways I can see are "mean". So what can we do?

We can limit like China does, 1 child per family or mother. We can do a volunteer WORLD WIDE SUICIDE
We can have "patriotic contractors" do bad things to take out people secretly. We need to start with India and China, get rid of many poor, sick, weak and elderly people there first! Then what?

We could ship people to outerspace or the moon! Put communities up there someday!

What else? I believe if you live here on earth for 75 years happily, its time to go!

Sounds mean dont it? Yea it does, so how can we find a solution that is acceptable?
Theres no time like the present

A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

All people need to do more on every level!
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    Ok I would like to see how we can control the population, take care of mother earth, find a good population number for our mother earth to have, and explore ways to achieve that number.

    There are 7-8 billion people on earth. What is the ideal number for mother earth to handle?

    I believe that 3-4 billion is probably max for mother earth. You?

    How can we achieve that number? All ways I can see are "mean". So what can we do?

    We can limit like China does, 1 child per family or mother. We can do a volunteer WORLD WIDE SUICIDE
    We can have "patriotic contractors" do bad things to take out people secretly. We need to start with India and China, get rid of many poor, sick, weak and elderly people there first! Then what?

    We could ship people to outerspace or the moon! Put communities up there someday!

    What else? I believe if you live here on earth for 75 years happily, its time to go!

    Sounds mean dont it? Yea it does, so how can we find a solution that is acceptable?
    Suicide would be a good option, you can start the trend. ;)
    #FHP
  • Horos wrote:
    Ok I would like to see how we can control the population, take care of mother earth, find a good population number for our mother earth to have, and explore ways to achieve that number.

    There are 7-8 billion people on earth. What is the ideal number for mother earth to handle?

    I believe that 3-4 billion is probably max for mother earth. You?

    How can we achieve that number? All ways I can see are "mean". So what can we do?

    We can limit like China does, 1 child per family or mother. We can do a volunteer WORLD WIDE SUICIDE
    We can have "patriotic contractors" do bad things to take out people secretly. We need to start with India and China, get rid of many poor, sick, weak and elderly people there first! Then what?

    We could ship people to outerspace or the moon! Put communities up there someday!

    What else? I believe if you live here on earth for 75 years happily, its time to go!

    Sounds mean dont it? Yea it does, so how can we find a solution that is acceptable?
    Suicide would be a good option, you can start the trend. ;)

    Criteria for the first round of world wide suicides: Those over 75 are eligable, those that are rich so we dont have to pay them their retirements, those that are poor and sick, those with AIDS, STD"S, etc. Thats the first round of volunteers!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,766
    seems to run counter to some of the other things you have posted about freedom.
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    If they started a suicide channel people would be lined up around the block to get on TV.
    #FHP
  • mickeyrat wrote:
    seems to run counter to some of the other things you have posted about freedom.

    LOL This whole post is sarcastic and humorous! Dont you get why? Its a liberal ideology....so I keenly posted questions about it.....to reveal its absurdity!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • mickeyrat wrote:
    seems to run counter to some of the other things you have posted about freedom.

    Not really.....freedom is choice....and so is suicide!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • Fear...

    I think we get what you are trying to say here in terms of sustainability and the devastating effects of our population explosion on the earth.

    But I think we need to be careful even 'playing' with the responses solicited for such a hypothetical scenario. I think some suggestions have the potential to offend in a grievous manner.

    Put this one to rest.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Fear...

    I think we get what you are trying to say here in terms of sustainability and the devastating effects of our population explosion on the earth.

    But I think we need to be careful even 'playing' with the responses solicited for such a hypothetical scenario. I think some suggestions have the potential to offend in a grievous manner.

    Put this one to rest.

    Ok then lets talk about serious ways to control the population....can you make any SERIOUS suggestions?
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • Realistically, since we're animals and we generally like to fuck, population control isn't going to work. Finding more sustainable/efficient ways to grow food would be a great start.

    The first thing would be a primarily vegetarian diet, much easier/more energy efficient to grow veggies than raise animals.

    What are your REAL suggestions?
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  • Realistically, since we're animals and we generally like to fuck, population control isn't going to work. Finding more sustainable/efficient ways to grow food would be a great start.

    The first thing would be a primarily vegetarian diet, much easier/more energy efficient to grow veggies than raise animals.

    What are your REAL suggestions?

    OK we got a real suggestion! A serious answer....thanks! LOL Yes we do like to do it! Ok so less energy to grow veggies.....good suggestion. But if there is overpopulation of deer, bear, fish, etc., we should also direct our attention to those animals for food as well! We dont want any waste....and an animal that dies, but is not eaten....is also a waste!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    mickeyrat wrote:
    seems to run counter to some of the other things you have posted about freedom.

    LOL This whole post is sarcastic and humorous! Dont you get why? Its a liberal ideology....so I keenly posted questions about it.....to reveal its absurdity!

    I get the absurdity part... for sure! :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    Realistically, since we're animals and we generally like to fuck, population control isn't going to work. Finding more sustainable/efficient ways to grow food would be a great start.

    The first thing would be a primarily vegetarian diet, much easier/more energy efficient to grow veggies than raise animals.

    What are your REAL suggestions?

    OK we got a real suggestion! A serious answer....thanks! LOL Yes we do like to do it! Ok so less energy to grow veggies.....good suggestion. But if there is overpopulation of deer, bear, fish, etc., we should also direct our attention to those animals for food as well! We dont want any waste....and an animal that dies, but is not eaten....is also a waste!
    I doubt that you truly seek serious responses because most of your posts that I've read just seem to illicit sarcastic and rash replies.

    But this post is the most rational. It would be incredibly irresponsible to stop killing animals.

    As for overpopulation, there is no REAL solution. We will continue to propagate and if necessary(as I believe you mentioned in the Global Warming Thread) the earth will take care of itself.
    #FHP
  • Keen sense of humor just is not accepted sometimes from lefties! Cmon guys!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,766
    Keen sense of humor just is not accepted sometimes from lefties! Cmon guys!
    really depends on what some find humorous.

    To me theres not much here that meets the criteria I have for my sense of humor. Has nothing to do with my politics. Or yours. Poor humor cuts across those lines.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Melodrama aside and to address the topic...isn't birth control the equivalent (of sorts, anyway) of population control? People need education on it and access to it, and to exercise responsibility using it.

    Be responsible when choosing to have a child; be able to provide for it in as many ways possible and as they deserve.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    People self-limit their fertility when they have access to (and are educated about) contraception. Pretty simple.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Keen sense of humor just is not accepted sometimes from lefties! Cmon guys!

    That's because left handed people are humorless. Not to mention stupid and inept...

    ..with the exception of the following:

    Dan Aykroyd
    James Baldwin
    Lenny Bruce
    David Byrne
    Charlie Chaplin
    Kurt Cobain
    Robert DeNiro
    Richard Dreyfuss
    Judy Garland
    Errol Garner
    Whoopie Goldberg
    Goldie Hawn
    Jimi Hendrix
    Diane Keaton
    Helen Keller
    Sandy Koufax
    Paul McCartney
    Shirley MacLaine
    Robert Plant
    Ringo Starr
    Rod Steiger
    Rip Torn
    Eudora Welty
    Ted Williams
    Joanne Woodward

    ...and maybe at least a few million others. ;)
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,618
    Ok I would like to see how we can control the population, take care of mother earth, find a good population number for our mother earth to have, and explore ways to achieve that number.

    There are 7-8 billion people on earth. What is the ideal number for mother earth to handle?

    I believe that 3-4 billion is probably max for mother earth. You?

    How can we achieve that number? All ways I can see are "mean". So what can we do?

    We can limit like China does, 1 child per family or mother. We can do a volunteer WORLD WIDE SUICIDE
    We can have "patriotic contractors" do bad things to take out people secretly. We need to start with India and China, get rid of many poor, sick, weak and elderly people there first! Then what?

    We could ship people to outerspace or the moon! Put communities up there someday!

    What else? I believe if you live here on earth for 75 years happily, its time to go!

    Sounds mean dont it? Yea it does, so how can we find a solution that is acceptable?

    Using the term "ideal" is a human term. The Earth and nature is working toward being in balance, so we as humans need to find a way to incorporate ourselves into that balance. The global population will probably top out at about 10 or 11 billion, and the Earth likely can't sustain modern consumerism for that many people. Do we work with a sustainability practice, or do we work with the beliefs that promote over consumption?

    Humans have an internal drive to make things better, but this also can contradict our consumer based economy and that measurements of whether or not things are getting better are based on spending, material production, and gross domestic product. Using economic measures to determine prosperity pushes against human's natural and internal drive toward balance, and the same thing is seen on a global/environmental scale as well. The next great historical shift will occur when the global economy shifts away from mass consumerism of material goods. This will, in a sense, bring balance to the great swing that occurred from the industrial revolution.
  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895
    One of the best ways to control population is to empower women. By empowering women economically, you then achieve your goal without adcovating birth control which may go against their religious, moral, cultural beliefs. By empowering women through economic activity, you give them the means to leave abusive men or to support their kids if they are unable to maintain a living wage, even with a husband. By empowering women, they teach their sons and daughters how to participate in the global and/or local economy which most likely will lead to higher education levels amongst their children which will eventually lead to the CHOICE to limit the number of children they have and you've done it without forcing our cultural, moral, religious, philosophical beliefs on another group.
    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?

    Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...

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  • djklambake
    djklambake PHX, AZ Posts: 2,524
    I got snipped a few months ago... I've done my part, gang! :)
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