Question Population Control?

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A number of environmentalists are saying that in order to 'save the world' we need some form of population control.

Is anyone in favour of this? Is a low key approach best or should the state mandate who/how much people can breed like in China?

Or will population find its own level?
 

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I suggest we begin with those clueless fucks who attach themselves to the climate change lobby.
 

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Damn right, nature is struggling to keep the populos down. We need to intervene much like China does (about the only thing I agree with when it comes to China).

Start with the treehuggers as they cost me a fucking fortune in wasted taxes.
 

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I am more for the Logans Run type method.
 

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pff nature will sort it out with a well placed global pandemic or something.
 

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Interestingly although the population increase = famine arguement is pretty much accepted in the popular consciousness the reality has been the opposite.

Life expectancy and levels of nutrition have greatly improved at the same time as our population increased. All the major famines have been in areas of political instability and corruption like ethiopia.

This Wiki entry is quite amusing The Population Bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The book contained many dire warnings none of which have come true yet population has motored on :)
 

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In theory yes, in practice, its a fucking nightmare. The Chinese system is a disaster and the country now has a rising problem of spoilt single males and not enough women (never a good combination).

This is the problem with population control; who decides? You start with a simple one child per family model and end up with a generation of badly socialised spoilt bastards. So you start to get clever and look at other criteria; screening out those with high genetic risks for instance. Then you're on a slippery slope and it becomes "higher propensity to commit crimes", or "prone to certain cancers" (never anything as crude as race or intelligence). And some of these things might even make a certain kind of sense, but then those that decide these things truly own the future. Frankly I'd rather have a nice big war.

rynnor said:
Life expectancy and levels of nutrition have greatly improved at the same time as our population increased. All the major famines have been in areas of political instability and corruption like ethiopia.

That's not the reason the greenies are advocating population control though; its not just about food anymore, its about the lifetime damage a human being causes. They've read their Malthus, had their fingers burned by The Club of Rome, so now they come up with other strategies. Scary thing is, in a way they have a point, I just wish they'd start by giving us a good example and killing themselves.
 

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I'd be for the Logan's run solution if I got to see a youthful Jenny Agutter's nekkid body.
 

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Damn right, nature is struggling to keep the populos down.

its getting better tho... virus are getting resistant to anibiotica or mutating to transfer from animal to human and the scientists are starting to panic :)


so dont worry, we will have a equivelant to the black death pandemic soon enough methinks :)

probably not before i'm long dead tho so i really dont care :p
 

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Less kids, less scum, scum is dumb, dumb kills itself, smarter survives, race wins! :D

On the other hand, the planet is fine, it's just the humans that are f*cked and if we limit our numbers, the day the space armada with 10 billion invading forces comes, we'll need every person we got.
 

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Nature needs to be fucked over. Cocky little bitch !
 

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If we want to limit the population we should do two things:

1) Remove all health and safety laws for outside the workplace.

2) Reintroduce all the predators we've killed.


I don't know about you guys but I'm pretty confident I'd be able to outrun a fat nasty chav bitch if we were being pursued by a pack of wolves :D
 

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excelleing within society is less and less to do with the physical abilities of a given person beyond very broad attractiveness/fitness links.
 

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I don't know about you guys but I'm pretty confident I'd be able to outrun a fat nasty chav bitch if we were being pursued by a pack of wolves :D

Unless she was on her way to sign on.
 

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