RE: The world's population should be at most 50 million.
October 9, 2018 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2018 at 3:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 9, 2018 at 2:58 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The worst part is that we know not enough people will choose to limit their reproduction soon enough to avert the dire consequences, which will fall disproportionately on the poor.Adding insult to injury, their procreation isn't what caused the problem to begin with. It's a giant shit sandwich, for sure. Not so much for the state, though..because the only reason it would act on the metric of "too many people" is if it were much more specific. Too many usians in the us. Thing is...if it weren't for immigration..we'd be below the pop replacement rate, and the same pattern follows in most of the developed world. Immigrants, themselves, within a few generations, mirror the native norms.
Meanwhile, it is our relatively non-breeding (first world) selves that are causing these problems. It's unclear why reducing the number of breeders, or poor breeders, would help to solve a problem that they are not significantly contributing to...or at least, it would seem like there would be a hell of alot more direct and efficacious ways to handle whatever issue it is we seek to address.
Quote:Definitely. You can take a look at the numbers on states that promote actual sex ed and access to both contraceptives and reproductive care and see that the number of single teenage mothers is massively lower than bible thumping states.
Although personally, I think free birth control and sterilization would go a long way towards reducing family size of people in poverty, even without further incentive. I'd like to see numbers on that where it's been tried, though. Religion is likely to be a strong barrier to taking advantage of such programs.
-avoiding food and water shortages is a distribution issue, not a "too many people" issue. We already produce more than enough food to feed the entire world, for example..and yet people still starve. Hell, people starve here..or are severely malnourished, even though we don't have too many people, we do have a shitload of food..and we do have considerable amounts of money -and- supplemental nutritional assistance.
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