Human Race: Your Numbers Up

[Cinjin]

I do understand the concept of, "thinning the herd", but I don't think she would be so cavalier if it was her house and her friends of whom the world decided to "thin".

Good point. This one is always a good one. Who decides who dies?

Thats why its such a hard/bad thing. As you said above, it really needs to be a conscious decision. A decision to not have children though goes against our instincts and scocial norms. A hard thing to do indeed. How do you get an entire planet to undersdtand and accept this concept?

There may be only one way. Mankind has to learn a lesson that can only be taught by total destruction. Religion has a strangle hold on this planet. The muslims and the christians are surely not going to stop breeding, and since they account for a huge portion of the population - we're probably screwed.

The strange thing is, people like Sae and many others don't see any immediate threat and therefore don't really care whether or not changes are made. But that's just it ... if you were told that your children were going to suffer and possibly die and the world would come to an end - wouldn't you, despite your beliefs, stop breeding for the chance at living??? Yes, we would have to consider it a very drastic worldwide emergency effort just as if we were forced to hide underground from a planetary killer such as an asteroid, but most everyone would be willing to do it in order to live.