To prevent serious overpopulation: couples can have no more than 2 children at the most.
And at that, only married couples can reproduce.
To discourage people from marrying and having too many kids, marriages should be much much more expensive.
Also, once you're married, you would need to get a license to have a child or two children - the license, too, should be very expensive in order to further discourage couples from having kids.
This law should not only apply in just the US, but all across the world.
THOSE WHO WOULD NOT OBEY THIS LAW WOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH, INCLUDING THE OFFSPRING THEY MADE.
Consider the following info:
OVERPOPULATION
Overpopulation is a term that refers to a condition by which the population density enlarges to a limit that provokes the environmental deterioration, a remarkable decline in the quality of life, or a population collapse.
The term population density denotes the number of inhabitants dwelling in a specific area, for example: 100 inhabitants per square Kilometer.
The impact of human populations on the environment has been severe. Some animal species have been extinguished or forced to live in inhospitable regions by the advance of urban areas; pollution is a problem that is increasing gradually because we are using more cars. Emerging countries industrialization is not paying attention to environmental issues because of the feeding demands of their ever-growing populations.
The human overpopulation has been credited to diverse factors, as the increment in life-span, the absence of natural enemies, the improvement in the quality of life, and the accessibility to get better goods.
Every year, more than 81 million people add the world-wide population. Every 10 years almost one billion inhabitants are added to the world’s population.
CURRENT EFFECTS OF OVERPOPULATION
Due to the opening out of human settings, 16 million hectares of forest are chopped down each year.
The accelerated growth of the human populations has propitiated the destruction of natural habitats of many species. People are invading the habitats of those species, replacing them to inhospitable places and condemning the native species to the extinction.
The speed of extinction of plants and animals attributable to human activities is 10,000 times faster than the natural quotient.
About 5 million people die every year from illnesses associated to organic wastes.
Too dense human communities produce tons of solid wastes (organic and inorganic waste) daily, consume large quantities of energy and emit more pollutants to the environment.
Water necessities will increase to 20% by 2025. Approximately, one half of wetlands around the world have been lost since 1900.
In USA, consumption of materials (wood, metals, synthetics, etc.) has grown 18-fold since 1900.
The Ozone layer has been gradually ruined by the effect of the CFCs. The concentration of CFCs has been increased as the human population has grown, and the thickness of the Ozone layer has been lesser to the extent that a hole in the layer has been formed. Scientists have found that there are other emissions derived from human activities, which have contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer.
TRENDS OF POPULATION GROWTH
World Population (update:July 2006) = 6,525,170,264 humans
The rate of population growth has been receding since 1963. The rate of global growth before the 1960s was near to 2.4 percent, at present the rate has diminished to 1.27 percent.
If you observe the current tendency, you could assume that all works well, but actually, it does not. Actually this global picture has been obtained taking into account mainly European countries, as Germany and Holland, which hold a negative rate. On the other hand, some countries maintain rates of growth over 4 percent each year.
For example, the Ethiopia's current population of 60 million inhabitants is projected to near 170 million by 2050.
By 2050, India will displace to China from its first place in growth rate, with an increment of 550 million additional inhabitants to its present population of more than one billion.
Pakistan almost will triple its population by 2050, from 142 to 350 million. If the world population continues growing at an average of three children by couple, the global population for 2050 will be of 10.5 billion inhabitants, from whom 7.7 billion will suffer for extreme poverty, lack of fresh water, hunger, illnesses, etc.
In some cases, the five countries at the first level of population growth (China, India, USA, Indonesia and Brazil) will continue in their current rank because the rate of mortality in poor countries exceeds the rate of births. If this tendency upturns, then those countries will have population growths of around five percent by year.
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