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In reply to the discussion: Since I got "Slammed" for suggesting China's 1 Child Policy was Socially Responsible [View all]FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)5. I agree but that is not going to be enough
Its going to take a Global effort that will meet resistence at every possible juncture
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Since I got "Slammed" for suggesting China's 1 Child Policy was Socially Responsible [View all]
FreakinDJ
May 2012
OP
We are only 5% of the world's population so the numbers aren't that big in absolute terms..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#8
You can scream all day that the OP is only talking about CHINA. You are still 100% dead wrong.
Zalatix
May 2012
#67
Those type countries aren't going to put in family size restrictions anyway for the most part..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#18
It was so "right" that it has left mass amounts of female children aborted or in orphanages.
Marrah_G
May 2012
#16
How about controlling population through education, opportunity and reproductive rights for women
Marrah_G
May 2012
#12
it is socially responsible, the problem is that it comes up against individual human rights
La Lioness Priyanka
May 2012
#26
We used to have a DUer who promoted the "Die Off" of the World's population theory here
NNN0LHI
May 2012
#49
People weren't arguing with you that overpopulation wasn't a problem
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#55
would people here prefer that China go back to its history of large families (sons preferred)...
magical thyme
May 2012
#60