How can the world population be reduced?

Answer 1

International Politics debates this question endlessly.

One of the more effective solutions has been centered on women:

1. By educating and empowering women, population growth has been slowed in many developing countries.

2. Women in poorer countries are typically, uninformed or misinformed about birth control. So much of their status depends on the number of children they produce. By giving women self-worth and productivity outside the home this generally decrease the need to reproduce.

3. Women frequently and logically choose to have more children then they can afford because children are soon vital laborers for the family unit. By educating women and improving the poverty level within a community this need for every available worker diminishes.

4. Because health care is very poor in many developing countries too many babies die very young - this often produces a biological need in many mothers to have another baby, to try again. Thus producing unhealthy large families as a security measure for when one or more of the children will die.

All of these reasons contribute to a population explosion in some of the world's poorest countries, those that are least able to sustain this growth. Much of this work with women has been spearheaded and led by various non-profits and human rights organizations. The United Nations has also been crucial in linking population problems with uneducated, poverty stricken women throughout the less developed world. If you’re curious I would start at their website as they offer links to their partner NGO's who are doing this particular work.

http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/unagencies.html

Answer 2

By raising public awareness about family planning and birth control; easy accessibility of contraception; incentive packages for small families, etc. But awareness and accesibility is the key.

Answer 3

By reducing the abortion waiting list from 16 month to two months....

Answer 4

A Law on Family Planing should be made compulsery

Answer 5

1. Stop our obsessive drive to save every single life possible. (A good pandemic flu allowed to do what nature designed it to do comes to mind.)

2. Personal responsibility - couples deciding to have no more than two children.

Yeah, that should just about do it.

Answer 6

remove the magnets from all shoes worn by Australians and they all will fall off the bottom of the earth and disappear into space, that's what I heard.

Answer 7

War
Natural disaster
Famine
Disease

Or, the most ideal solution: education on contraception

Answer 8

By making people pay more tax if they have more than 1 child.

Answer 9

Global War...

Answer 10

2 great problems,too many people not enough food;
solution: we all become cannibals for one day and eat one person each, problem solved!