RE: The Need to Breed
August 15, 2012 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2012 at 9:45 pm by Rayaan.)
(August 15, 2012 at 12:00 pm)Cinjin Wrote: By 2050 it may very well be too late. Also, declining growth, isn't a shrinking population. If the world only had 300 babies a day (which would be an unrealistic 96% drop in population growth) we'd still be growing. I don't think some of you people are getting it. We're already at capacity.
I don't think that the world is overpopulated yet, but it's just that there are too many people concentrated in certain small parts of the world which is bad for the economy and for the quality of life of the people as well. That's why many people who are living in the most densely populated areas today have a bad quality of life. By this, I mean having things like lots of traffic jams, drugs, violence, pollution, poor healthcare system, people living in slums, dirty roads, etc.
However, as I said earlier, I still do not support the idea of population control because I see it as a violation of human rights. And, in the end, just from a psychological point of view, most people live for the moment, for their own feelings, and for themselves. Appeals to reason, logic, education, and concern for others is not always going to work, unfortunately (although, of course, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't educate them either).
Personally, I wouldn't mind having no children myself. I'm 25 and I still haven't planned on even marrying yet. I can live happily by myself as I've been doing so to this day (unless if I change or something). But, either way, it's just my opinion that that putting a limit on human procreation is not the right thing to do. [Edit: Sorry, I wrote my age wrong. I'm 25, not 26.]
If overpopulation does become a problem in the future, then I think that it's going to be a hopeless situation. Telling people that they can't have a child could potentially lead to some kind of a nasty violence and/or create a variety of other problems in the future. For example, if you look at China's one-child policy, you can see the kind of economic stress and social pressures that it has placed upon the country ever since it was first introduced in 1978. You can read about this in the article below:
Can China Afford to Continue Its One-Child Policy? (PDF)
