If it were up to you to decide what to do about overpopulation, what would your solution be?

Answer 1

I guess launching a few nukes would be too brutal, not to mention risky. I might initiate global suicide, rather than eliminate a few billion here and there.

So the rational decision would be forced birth control, get a negative birth rate going...but even that will be drastic. Whatever is chosen, it will be monumental and cataclysmic...

Answer 2

first off, what is the capacity of the earth to hold a population, I don't know.

there are vast areas where people could live though life support for them would be a priority, food, water, removal of wastes and moving product and raw goods for manufacturing to those areas.

limiting the number of children does not work, look at china and the problems they are having. They have taken to killing some born children and still the population grows.

in Brazil, police walk through the streets and shoot homeless children every night and the kids keep coming in to the cities to beg.

to deal with over population, and i'm not saying I have the wisdom to do this, you need to find and dedicate land to food production and to preserve that land at all costs and quite building homes and cities on it

you must also have laws that are enforced, prisons that are designed to punish and be the worse place a man can be. A society is build on moral strength, not weakness.

I could go on, but if we can even achieve this much, it will be a start

Answer 3

Education

Answer 4

This may sound kinda weird, like im not a space nerd or anything but, i truly think NASA should be doing much more reserach on finding a planet thta humans will be able to live on. and then modifying it, and building so it an environmentally friendly human safe place to live, because not only over population but with all thhe destruction in the world the terrible thing is we'll probebly need it some day

Answer 5

Good question. I have thought about this before,
However I just do not understand how we, the plant earth, can still labeled overpopulated.
I mean I hear over and over how people study and prove that "so many thousands" of people die every day in countries that have no food, "thousands" of people die every year of cancer, car wrecks, murder............... and so on.
AND I have also heard that people are not having babies like they used to, like back in my grandmothers day it was the norm to have 12 to 15 children per family, then in my mothers day it was the norm to have at least five children per family and then in my day it is the norm to only have three or two children per family.
And then in some countries I have heard they are only allowed to have one child per family.
And then there are the big numbers of people who have decided that they do not want to have children ever.
So in given the facts by people who say the information is fact.
Sigh,
Oh, sorry....... to answer your question. I have no clue I am still trying to figure out how we are still labeled as being over populated. I do not know.

Answer 6

My answer would be as bad the one they had in the novel,
"Zero" They set it up for zero population growth, only a child could be concieved after a death. If you had a child without permission both adults where sterilized and baby terminated. This can not happen for the people with not give up the control, but this is the only way to have zero population. Hardcore that's me, I could never do something like that.

Answer 7

If we can't keep 12 yr old from having babies how do we dare to force adults.

Look at China, they limit 1 per family and that is the most polluted country in the world.

What should be done is educate educate and educate our children as to what our planet is going through . We need to save our plant and all of it's resources. By conserving we can prosper.

Answer 8

I would allow those who wish to cross to do so with dignity and grace. I am not afraid and neither should anyone else be. Why live in an aging diseased vehicle but change cars every 3 years? Think about it. If life is happening faster than in Biblical times, perhaps we should be learning more in less time instead of trying to become immortal with clones and spare parts.

Answer 9

thats a good question.....i think i would limit the amout of children each family could have, i know it sounds a little commy, but, if the world was in danger, i think it would make sense. maybe like 2 per family or something like that, and i would provide free "spaying and nuetering" for all mankind....that way, people who dont want kids or already had the limit in the family, could get "fixed" and not have to pay. Also, you could cap the baby having age....cut back on grandmas having babies.....i dont think there would be any other option other than to let nature take its course, and allow illness and famine do its thing, or let manmade chemical processed foods make our children infertile for us.....but i think my way really would be the only good fix....lol.

Answer 10

Appoint a team to investigate the options and report back to me. Then choose two of my best colleagues and between the three of us decide what the best solution would be.