Do you believe that to help prevent global warming some strict population control laws should be passed?

Question

we can do it now or in 2050, there is just no other way to prevent a dead earth.

Answer 1

No. Instead, I think the world should devote billions of dollars to find an adequte replacement for all fossil fuels. Solar, hydrogen, nuclear, wind, geothermal, whatever... Stop burning gas in our cars, and coal in our power plants, and the problem would likely go away. Plus we'd have healthier air to breathe.

Look, I'm not convinced GW is our fault, or that it's necessarily a bad thing, but think about this - what would be the harm in doing what I suggested? We'd have cleaner, more pleasant air, there'd be no smog in L.A. for example, and we wouldn't be slaves to middle eastern countries that provide us oil! What would be so terrible about that?


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Answer 2

Population control (which sounds very negative and Orwellian) is actually a not bad concept, and would help the overall environment. Even if you do not believe in "global warming" as explained by people like Al Gore, the earth is still experiencing a variety of environmental crisis' that could be slowed and affected in a positive way by regulating the amount of humans.

If every family simply had only 2 kids (not unrealistic) we would have a stable population. If parents then also chose to have only one child (and lavish attention upon them) then the population would slowly decrease back to a more sustainable level.

The era of 12 child households needs to be over. It is unnecessary and environmentally impractical.

*addition* Fish, Check your facts man. The land area of Texas is 167,550,080 Acres, and global population is currently 6,569,977,557.

By your reasoning, it would still take 39.21 States of Texas to give everyone an acre. And the problem lies in the fact that a sizable amount of people in the world use up more than an acres worth of resources to live their modern lives. It's not about land area, it's about resources. I suggest you google "ecological footprint" and find out what kind of an impact your life makes.

Answer 3

I am sorry to hurt your feeling but, you can take every person on earth and give them an acre of land and there would not be a single person living outside the boundaries of Texas. That would leave no one living on the rest of the planet. So why do you think population control and promoting abortion will not do anything to stop global warming.

Actually I think maybe the Hindu religion should be outlawed, because cattle create more chlorofluorocarbons (the element blamed for causing global warming) than humans do. We need to kill off all the bovine in the world to stop global warming.

Answer 4

No, I do not think that strict population control laws should be passed because of natural selection. Nature has its' own way of controlling the population. If too many people are on earth, disease and famine will spread, thus controlling the population.

Answer 5

No, not at all.... the focus should be on getting off fossil fuels which is the major contributor to the Global warming effect. See the source link for more information by the EPA.

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Answer 6

I'm all for population control. I think it should be mandated that you must be married to have children and limited to two offspring for at least the next 200 years. At which time, the law should be evaluated an a determination should be made to alter it as needed. It's for the good of our species. To argue otherwise would be myopic, narrow-minded, and absolutely selfish. Sooner or later (probably later) humankind will come to a consensus that the world population has to be taken to a managed pace. But in and of itself, I don't think that our species could irretrievably kill the Earth. We have certainly had quite an effect upon it but even we aren't that effective.

Answer 7

No that doesn't sparkling up the priority, simply by fact worldwide warming never stops. The IPCC released a piece of writing a pair of weeks in the past announcing that worldwide warming is irreversible, so no forcing human beings to provide up having better than one baby won't sparkling up the priority. we are able to purely decrease worldwide warming. that's impossible to thoroughly do away with it. it could be like removing all climate and climate in the international. impossible.

Answer 8

There already are strict population controls in place:

1) Cancer
2) HIV/AIDS
3) War
4) Fast food

Answer 9

I don't know...natural selection seems to weed out a lot of people, PEOPLE seem to weed out a lot of people (ie: War) and weather disasters (ie: Tsunami) unfortunately do as well. I think the human race would eventually find a way to destroy the earth with half of the current population, to be honest.

Answer 10

There's a better way to prevent a dead earth. We need to use resources better, and develop technologies that help us do that. Like emissions scrubbers for coal-fired power plants, and altfjules for cars.