Population control?

Question

Should 3rd world nations start controlling their population?
So many people. Not enough land. Not enough fresh water.
india, myanmar, ethiopia, somalia, etc....
Was the earth built to support so many people?

Answer 1

We should ALL control our population.
That said, only intelligent people are responsible enough to understand the need to control the population.
As a result, since intelligence is, to some degree, hereditary, we are breeding a LOT of low I.Q. individuals and fewer high I.Q. people, thereby diluting the average intelligence of the human race.
So, that said, who is going to cull the herd?

Answer 2

The United States comprises 5% of the worlds population, but uses 25% of the worlds resources.

If you really want to make an impacts on a closed ecologial system, you go after the wolf, not the ant.


We could reduce our population, by gradually reducing the number of children that people here chose to have, or more realistically we could just stop consuming such a grotesque amount of global resources.

Answer 3

The bottom line is that man, regardless of his resourcefulness, is still a creature subject to the laws of nature. We can either self impose population limits or nature will. We cannot live beyond the limits set down by mother nature. If we choose to limit population, we will not have to watch people starve or die of disease. If not, mother nature will step in and do it for us, and nature doesn't always have a reputation for doing things humanly. The choice is up to us. Simple as that.

Answer 4

there are many ways to control the rapidly increasing population:
- marrying in an old age
- using such methods like family planning

Answer 5

i think eart was built to support so many people nut problem here is that we are expoiting earth resources and by pollution degrading the rest one.

second thing is that we hv territorail division i.e. resources available in one country can not be utilized by other country people. and we are not generous enough to share.

Answer 6

good luck it is the most sensitive subject
and overpoipulation sure has a chain of effects which are all interrelated and heavily tax the system
People use and need land,so more and more is being changed to accommodate human growth and development

The necessary flora ,which permits life as we know it, is disappearing.

Eco-systems are being exchanged for desserts , concrete or roads.

World population has doubled in the last 50 years exceeding the growth of 4 million years (since we became homo Sapiens).
To satisfy the growing demand farmers are cultivating unstable lands , too steep or dry to be sustainable.


Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .
Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

Each year billions of tons of topsoil are blown or washed away by storms.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise.
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NATURES POINT OF VIEW

In Nature exists such a thing as the law of Harmony and Equilibrium

Animals have lots of young when there is plenty of food ,and have little or none when the conditions are bad
when there is a plague of rabbits ,many foxes are born,
when there is no game lions ,and other predators have few cubs.

plants do roughly the same
All follow the LAW OF NATURE OF EQUILIBRIUM
everybody is welcome ,but nobody in excess.
we must co-exist on this planet and limit our numbers to our resources

All of Nature obeys these LAWS,but Humans put themselves above the LAW,and have bred themselves into a plague
It is a miracle that Nature has allowed us to get this far.

Everything else is set upon by plagues ,disease or predators ,when they exceed their allotted quantity,or there are Natural disasters .

There are two moments in the existence of a specie when extinction is likely,
when there are two few
And when there are too many.
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PEOPLE

However population control has always been a very sensitive issue Because people get get very nervous when you go below the belt

Mans sexuality and very often how many kids hes got is proof of his masculinity and insurance for old age
with many possible incomes to assist him when he himself cannot work any more
the second point is HOW do we ethically control populations

poor areas with less education DEMONSTRATE THE HIGHEST NUMBERS OF TEEN AGE PREGNANCIES,

educated women have less children
But uneducated populations are more religious and more resistant to birth control.
to forcibly control populations is frowned upon to say the least
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Population control in the past and present

at a meeting in Kopenhagen in 1998 it was suggested to bring the world population down by 60%,one cannot help but wonder at how this would be archieved
War (past .present and future)
Natures way disease(today,past and future)
Manufactured disease(suspected today)
cures that kill(suspected today)
poisoned consumer goods (suspected today)
making children infertile or gay,by raising the PH level in drinking water or even drinks (suspected today)
birth control,

Some Native peoples have always been aware of this
to limit the tribes number to as many as the tribe can afford to feed
in the past the Olmecs women ate yams to make them infertile,
Amazonian tribes have strict sexual rites that limit copulation in the conventional way.

And there were central Americans who sacrificed their excess children to the Gods

Today we have several methods but most reach only the educated ,i handed out condoms to an native Mazatecca comunity in Oaxaca ,and the church retrieved them all )

education on birth control(not enough,again the poor regions are excluded )

there are the strong methods such as in China with laws that limit childbirth per family.
Also a horrible concept.

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In the Netherlands after the war families were encouraged
to have few children because it is such a small country
not much bigger than Mexico city,
so it was physically impossible to fit a lot of people into the country ,There people can understand the concept of birth control,
But in larger countries many think of the family ,not the society as a whole

what happens if the country is full
wage war and kill everybody in another place to invade and settle there ,that would be the natural solution

In the past conquering countries encouraged the people to have many kids to be used as cannon fodder

or settling farmers needed many sons to provide labor,
one would have thought that we had progressed from that

But judging by many peoples reactions, many still cling to the old self centered or invasive philosophies

Answer 7

the earth can handle billions more humans before things start to get crowded. and as population control, nature does that by itself, why do you think most of those countries are rampant with aids and lots of other brutally nasty diseases?

Answer 8

whats makes our 1st world nation so much more important than a 3rd world~~~~

what do you think aids was invented for?~