(December 17, 2013 at 4:06 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(December 16, 2013 at 11:40 am)TaraJo Wrote: The world is overpopulated as is. We can't maintain the population growth we currently have. Because of that, the last thing we need is to force more people to have babies against their will.Current statistics actually do not support this position. The world is not overpopulated; we can support this many people and more, but the wealth / food is not distributed well enough so a lot of people are still in poverty.
The population growth is actually less than you probably think it is. This is due to us reaching what is known as "peak child". The number of children in the world is expected to remain the same (around 2 billion) for the future, and the only increases to global population will come from medical advances that mean less people die and people in general live longer.
I encourage you to watch the following documentary (free) for some great explanations:
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-pan...opulation/
So forced redistribution of wealth and food?
What's the plan?
I mean, whether population is a problem or not, generally fewer people = less problems socioecologically.