Is reducing the population key to saving our world?

[kdt]

Its painfully clear that overpopulation is causing economic stress and will continue to do so. Earth definitely was not made to please 6 billion people. Perhaps a few billion, but not anything like this. With population expected to reach 9 billion soon, the economy will only get worse.

What are your solutions? We cannot migrate to another planet, populate under the sea or anything of that sort. Are we just destined to be doomed?


NOTE: not trying to create controversy/drama, just some insightful discussion

[Electric Monk]

1. Who gets to choose? Bigger question...

:shrug:

[Skidmore]

2. Not to worry,

the corporate world, health industry, wars, and the rich have shaped our society in a way that the poor, sick, and elderly will die off in droves. Not fast enough for your liking perhaps, but it will happen.

[LARED]

3. May I recommend a book that addresses some of your fears

"The Rational Optimist" By Matt Ridley

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/

He pretty convincingly debunks the notion that overpopulation causes economic stress, and the issue about how many people the earth can support being at some tipping point.

If you are not aware you are one more in a long line of people that have been predicting apocalyptic senarios about overpopulation since about 2 billion people inhabited the earth.

[Bobbieo]

4. Less viagra and more birth control pills might help!

[Petrushka]

5. Hm-m. I wonder: Was "overpopulation" the cause of "economic stress" in 1929 too?

:shrug:

[customerserviceguy]

6. Only one thing has been shown to reduce birthrate without coercion

And that's the move from an agricultural society to a manufacturing/service economy. On the farm, each new mouth to feed also comes with a pair of hands and a pair of legs to bring in the harvest. In an industrialized society, kids are a financial liability.

[madrchsod]

7. mother nature has a way to cull the herd...

[kdt]

8. overpopulation and jobs

that's what i was getting at. more people, not many additional jobs created = shortage. and technology is continuing to facilitate work, subsequently removing jobs from the market.

thanks for the link, i'll check it out