How would you reduce population Growth?

Question

Ok for a project of mine i have to come up with an idea for cutting the worlds population growth rate in 1/2 within the next 20 years. I need to develop a detail plan that would achieve this goal, including any differences between policies in developing countries and those in developed countries.

Would you guys have ne ideas?! if do please help... this project is due tomarrow

Answer 1

The China option mentioned is one option.

The other option is increase education throughout the world. Not only sex education but just the promotion of higher education. As people become more educated, they often think more about their futures, which in turn makes them want to put having children to the side for a thing that will happen later in life.

Also, this reduces teenage pregnancy because most of teenage pregnancy happens with females who don't plan or are easily taken advantage of because of low self esteem. A future gives people self esteem, which can be brought through education.

Increasing education is also a cause that every country wants, not every country would want to implement a one child policy.

Urbanization brings birth rates down, as farm families are generally big.

The birth rate is falling almost all over the place except for in places in Africa, where some of the poorest countries are. So another good idea is to help Africa and their economics, but how this is done can be debated. Some would say, that we should give them aid. Others say we give them too much aid and its making them not cultivate their own workforce and resources. I believe in the latter. We should get countries to relieve their massive debt though.

Good luck.

Answer 2

I've got good news for you: the world's population growth rate over the next 20 years is going to decline by about 1/2 anyway, even without without your meddling. That's easy. INCREASING the growth rate is the hard part -- ask Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Eastern Europe.

Maybe as part of your project you should do a bit of demographic research first -- look up the stats, the latest reports from the UN, and at what experts are saying. The world's population is about 50 years away (if that) from peaking and then declining, which sort of renders your project pointless.

In 20 years, students will be doing projects trying to figure out how to *increase* the growth rate. Turns out its hard to get people to rut like pigs once they've got a cushy modern lifestyle and high taxes to pay.

Answer 3

Oddly Americans have had zero population growth since the late 1960's. That means all population growth since then is a result of .... immigration! SO yes, we can stop the growth (and even reverse it by 30 million or so) If we dont let obama give the illegals amnesty.

Answer 4

Well, this mostly has to do with Mortality rate, Birth Rate, Immigration, and Emmigration. To reduce it, kids should not be born as often... So if you could do that for your project..?

And, you could say you could block out people inserting the country (besides troops that were sent over there and peace corps and stuff)) and allow people to leave the country. That outta decrease the population since there are so many immigrants coming in.

Answer 5

Tubal Ligation at birth for the chicks,
Surgical Sterilization--male

FDA Approval Date: N/A
Description: Sealing, tying, or cutting a man's vas deferens so that the sperm can't travel from the testicles to the penis. (h)
Failure Rate (number of pregnancies expected per 100 women per year): less than 1
Some Risks (serious medical risks from contraceptives are rare): Pain, bleeding, infection, other minor postsurgical complications
Protection from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs): None
Convenience: One-time surgical procedure.
Availability: Surgery
For the boys.
It wont stop HIV/AIDS that takes education and education takes teachers.
So keep people stupid about that and we start dieing in good time.

Answer 6

china's birthreduction is one option, if every man and woman only has 1 child, the population will cut by 50% per generation.

the effects of this wont be noticable until the current generation passes on (50ish years)

another option would be all out nuclear or biological war.

Answer 7

Unlike many other steps that could be taken to reduce the rate of environmental changes, reductions in rates of population growth can be accomplished through voluntary measures. Surveys in the developing world repeatedly reveal large amounts of unwanted childbearing. By providing people with the means to control their own fertility, family planning programs have major possibilities to reduce rates of population growth and hence to arrest environmental degradation. Also, unlike many other potential interventions that are typically specific to a particular problem, a reduction in the rate of population growth would affect many dimensions of environmental changes. Its importance is easily underestimated if attention is focused on one problem at a time.

Science can contribute to population reduction as well. Relevant topics to which scientific research can make mitigating contributions include: development of new generations of safe, easy to use, and effective contraceptive agents and devices; development of environmentally benign alternative energy sources; improvements in agricultural production and food processing; further research in plant and animal genetic varieties further research in biotechnology relating to plants, animals, and preservation of the environment; improvements in public health, especially through development of effective drugs and vaccines for malaria, hepatitis, AIDS, and other infectious diseases causing immense human burdens. Also needed is research on topics such as: improved land-use practices to prevent ecological degradation, loss of topsoil, and desertification of grasslands; better institutional measures to protect watersheds and groundwater; new technologies for waste disposal, environmental remediation, and pollution control; new materials that reduce pollution and the use of hazardous substances during their life cycle; and more effective regulatory tools that use market forces to protect the environment.

Greater attention also needs to be given to understanding the nature and dimension of the world's biodiversity. Although we depend directly on biodiversity for sustainable productivity, we cannot even estimate the numbers of species of organisms - plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms - to an order of magnitude. We do know, however, that the current rate of reduction in biodiversity is unparalleled over the past 65 million years. The loss of biodiversity is one of the fastest-moving aspects of global change, is irreversible, and has serious consequences for the human prospect in the future.

Answer 8

okay...i am totally for population control...i think the government should provide free condoms for everyone who wants them and also make birth control affordable and accessible to everyone regardless of age....people should only have kids if they want them and can afford them. No one should be forced to live on welfare....we also need to stop stigmatizing people who have abortions and make sure that it doesn't go into that stage by PREVENTING pregnancy n the first place.....The only way to really do that is to separate the religious morality form social policies and letting women and men be free to choose what happens to their bodies!!!

Answer 9

Birth control for stupid people?

Answer 10

Keep it in the pants.