Reply #16: Most developed countries...

[thegreatwildebeest]

...actually face a shortfall in the next decade or so. Births are way below replcement rates in most countries, particuarly Japan, while rates are up in poorer, developing countries (due mostly for the need for labor). Even immigration won't be able to bolster the ranks of most developed countries in time.

Negative population growth? That smells vaguely of provocations to start shooting people, and that also smells of something an authoritarian would do, deeming himself to be "above" the riff raff around him, and th eone most deserving to live. I've got no interest in facist throwbacks to force peoples birthrates down, and I have no interest also in describing people as "Vermin" and other ridiculous accusations upon wide swaths of people who were basically screwed into this situation (which is to say, the non developed world). Sitting at a computer in a developed country and calling people "vermin" is absolutely ridiculous, and since I don't see you committing suicide to help out the earth, I suggest you check your own overblown rhetoric at the door.