What is your opinion on population control?

If we don’t control population than nature will in its own brutal way, disease, starvation, violence fighting for resources etc.

Most of the world doesn’t practice family planning and the result is that 2/3’s of mankind live in hunger squalor and hopelessness. The biggest difference between 1st and 3rd world countries is family planning. In areas with high standards of living most people limit their number offspring to the number they can afford; in areas with low standards of living people do not limit the number of offspring themselves but instead lets starvation and disease do the job.

Best I can tell we are already past the point where the number of people is greater than what the world can sustain. If we continue multiplying than like bacteria in a petree dish we will eventually poison ourselves with our own waste.

I’m not sure what the maximum number of people the world can sustainably support but it is probably closer to 1 billion than the 6.8 billion people there are now.

Honestly, it depends on where you are in the world. But realistically speaking, at least the US is in NO danger of overpopulation. Might seem that way in big cities, but the truth is that the only reason our birth ratio is staying up above 1.9 children per pair of parents is primarily because of foreign immigrants from places like Latin America reproducing. A recent historical study showed that when a society falls below this number of births, that it is almost imminent that it will fall due to the long-term damage caused by lack of reproduction during a generation or two. This wasn’t just some conservative spouting nonsense: a legitimate study by all kinds of professionals was done on this matter. I’ll have to look it up…

No, I don’t. It might sound CRUEL, but nature and other humans have a tendency to help take care of any children born beyond their parent’s means. Disease, starvation, murder, war…it all sucks, but it happens, and will probably never end as long as humans exist.

I’m sitting on the pointy fence on this one.

Population control would be ideal for people who are unsuitable parents, who keep breeding babies after babies which out having the best interest of their kids at heart and only want money from the government.

On the other hand, people are going to age so you need babies to be produced to continue the balance. Currently we have an aged workforce already, and the baby boomers (anyone over 45’s) absolutely detest our generation of working Ys and Zs. (but that is another topic for another time) :)

I do believe if we are not careful, all our natural resources around the world will eventually disappear from human beings’ over usage, so population control could be a key to save or prolong these resources.. Not sure how feasible the control will be. People do not like to be told what they can do and cannot do.

On a personal note, I’m not ever going to have a child, if push comes to shovel and the person I marry one day wants a kid, would rather adopt then pop a kid out.

I think it’s needed. I mean, in wild animals, controlling population by themselves doesn’t really matter, because wild animal are often killed naturally, as a means of prey, injury, illness etc. But because us humans have so many laws preventing death for us, way too many people are surviving over the age of 80 (that sounds cruel, but you get what I mean). Probably about three quarters of a wild animal’s offspring are killed naturally or by humans, so these animals NEED to breed lots. Humans don’t, because the amount of people who die each day, compared to the ones who are born, is way out of balance. So if we control population, by, say, limiting the amount of children one can have, then this will stop us people from killing ourselves and everything else on this darn planet out. And yes, I did just compare humans to animals, because we ARE animals, so it’s a fair comparison in my eyes. If anyone’s gunna take offence to this comparison, they’ll learn to get over it :)

~AnimalInsanity