How do we get 6 billion people to stop breeding like cockroaches?

Question

All of the conflict and problems the world is currently faced with can be linked to over population. Scientist beliieve that the earths capacity for human life is around 3 billion. That's the number of people the earth can support in a feasible manner. We breached that around 1980. If we don't get a handle on this problem, all other problems will continue to get worse and so will our lives. This is just the beginning!

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Answer 2

The scientists methodology was based on farming methods of the 1970's. Since that time, the techno-agriculture has expanded so that one acre of fertile soil can product 2 - 3 times more than it did in the past.

Even now, there are satellites that watch the weather maps and "beam" information to the tractors to tell them what to do (The john deere website has interesting information on that).

However, the problem isn't overpopulation, it's that the disparity between the "haves" and the "have nots" has grown - so that most of the wealth is limited to the top 3% of the world. It is this discrepancy that causes most of the social ills. However, socialism / communism isn't the answer - as the pilgrims found, it wasn't until they gave socialism the boot in the 1600's that they had enough food for the winter (hence the first "Thanksgiving" was a nod to capitalism).

I think the goal is to raise people's social awareness of others who are less fortunate. Look at Bill Gates and his idea to take a part of the population and save it through immunizations - save a child at $10 / child. Give hands up, not hands out, and there will be enough for all who are willing to work for it.

Answer 3

DUDE -- YOU ARE A NUT-JOB

There are countries that have realized that the number of younger folks who will be the work force in 10 - 30 years are not even enough in numbers to cover the expenses of the folks retiring at that time

Not to mention that unless jobs are replaced with robots.. or folks imported from somewhere, there will not be enough people to fill the job needs 20 years from now

Okay.... I understand the issue with Earth & it's population - but you need to also factor in tht the largest segment of people (here & in Europe) are now 45 - 70 years of age

Germany for example is begining programs to ENCOURAGE POPULATION.. in order to sustain future needs

So I suppose unless you wanted to take-out about 25% of the population that is currently 45-70... and I don't want that to happen!!!.... then people to stop "breeding" isn't really a good, stable answer at all

If 100% of the time (past, present, and future)2 people had 2 kids... then it would have all worked out.... however, in the until the 60's (birth control) there were a significant # of families with 8 - 10 kids

So, if you are worried about the over-population... and given that the real over-population isn't in the young... then why not start with yourself????!!!!???

Answer 4

Scientists tend to over exxagerate.You could stand all of earths population in our largest city and each person would have 6 feet of room.Theres many places with low population.Im not saying it will never become a problem but as long as there are wars disease etc it wont get too out of hand.America right now ,just utilizing ALL the farmland it has can feed the earth 3 times over and supply enough grain alcohol for all the automobiles on earth.Guess what though?In order to keep food prices at a certain level OUR governments PAY the farmers NOT to plant all they can but only a certain amount.The 3rd world countries do not teach the people abstinance, they just hand out b/c like they have been for decades and it hasnt worked.People scream now because we are in Iraq(when you go to war with an islamic terrorists group you fight the entire middle east) think of what theyd say if we tried to police the other countries sex habits.LOL!Give those people an education and a way to support theirself and they wont be starving.

Answer 5

"We breached that around 1980" - You said we are at 6 billion and some scientist predicted the earth's capacity is only around 3 billion. We are still alive and kicking! Isn't that amazing? Scientist often base their projections on the facts on hand. They were not able to predict that some creative individuals would be able to devise new technologies that would increase productivity by 100% in just 17 years. More than limiting population, I think the focus should be in encouraging individuals to be more creative in solving our present problems.

Answer 6

Step one: read George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

Step two: formulate a government and societal system based on these two novels.

Step Three: Take over the world and shove it down everyone's throat.

Alternatively we could work to fight poverty and raise the level of education among women, since these two factors are shown to be directly correlated to the number of children per household. As a nation becomes more prosperous, children cease to be a source of economic gain and instead become an economic drain. As women become more educated and have options besides being breeders, they tend to limit the number of children they have because they realize that the fewer kids they have the higher the quality of life they can achieve. Note that this also requires women to have legal status and economic freedom equal to men, so women's rights and equality will also be a component of any plan to curb population growth.

Answer 7

There are few things we can do to stop humans from breeding indiscriminately. Since we have no natural enemies besides ourselves; and since we defeat nature's controls (infant mortality, old age, disease, etc), I suggest the only solution is (and I don't support this, it's just the only control left to us in the light of the human resistance to change) war. War is the only effective way to decrease human population without enlisting the cooperation of ALL humans on the planet.

Answer 8

Make them rich. It is well known that the highest population growth rates are in the poorest countries. The population would be shrinking in the U.S. if we had no immigration. World wide population growth rates are way down because the world is getting richer. Except for Africa. That continent is still the poorest and still has the highest population growth rate.

Answer 9

let couples have 1 pregnancy and birth ,twins or more ok .then mandatory sterilization for both partners.let all those diseased third world countries have a choice of mass suicide ir slow death from what they have.there is no other good choice in the matter .population must be reduced and only the strong should survive.or we will all die .

Answer 10

Education.

Answer 11

One possiblity is to stop being homophobic and legalize gay marriage. We should stop people from trying to convert gay people back to being straight. Granted, gays and lesbians are a fraction of the population but we know that these people will be less likely to reproduce and they can adopt if they want kids.