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Posted: 7/19/2008 5:40:01 AM | | What we really need is a Godzilla or perhaps a Cloverfield-type monster. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2008 7:43:25 AM | Im not worried about population anymore. I think all we need to do is start finding cheaper alternative feul sources, learn how to better recycle, harness the sun, stop polluting our enviroments, maybe make some man made islands that can be reserves for animals, trees and plants. I pretty much think we would be fine.
Then eventually we would travel into space anyways. Im sure if the worlds over populated it would increase the drive to travel. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2008 9:45:35 AM | | People could leave. Any volunteers? | |
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Posted: 7/19/2008 10:41:52 AM | Don't worry mate, it's is all a pack of lies. Made up by Astisocrates and land owners who what yo to feel crushed. Take the UK, most of it is owned land, and not populated at all. They make up the crime figures, well the media does to make us all feel unwell, once we feel unwell, we are disabled and look for a remidy - and they they are Bush, Blare and Hitler.
Believe in your own map, not the one given. Good luck. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2008 10:44:41 AM | | Your it! lol We don't need monsters mate, we need you to get off your arse and start demonstrating. Freedom has always been fought for. Not by monsters, but by the ordinary folk. The monsters are men and women in power. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 4:10:28 PM | Just like to add... I've always wondered how population counts are actually done and whether they are accurate at all to the nearest 1,000 or 1,000,000 even!
Swine flu was an interesting blip but hardly made a dent, try again harder next time Gaia please! | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 10:21:52 PM | Population growth is by and large a societal creation. In the past, countries with a large population had more military strength. Religions needed the believers to procreate to increase their power. This was the main reason for churches to ban birth control and abortion.
Today our society is still based on growth. Population growth means economic growth. Western countries with an educated populace have less kids, but governments make up for it by increasing immigration from poorer third world countries which have become a breeding ground for the west. What is worse is that it is usually the wealthy and educated which leave the third world countries for the west, leaving the destitute behind.
The answer is to change the structure of society from one based on population growth with one based on sustainability. This is actually not that hard to do, but the citizens would have to wrest power from the corporate lobbyists who control the government and media, and who rely on population growth to maintain their economic growth and power.
The other main obstacle to sustainable population is lack of education. Educating the populace should not be seen as an expense, but an asset. The benefits of a highly educated population far outweigh the costs to society in providing that education. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 8:23:28 AM | | We are simply a part of a cycle that has been taking place since the creation of the Earth. Nature balances itself out when needed. Species evolve and species go extinct. The only difference for us is that we have the capability of understanding that and questioning it. However, just because we do does not mean that there's anything we can do about it. We are only a tiny part of the universe and just because we have the ability to ponder it - doesn't give us the ability to control it. Therefore, all that is left is to simply accept it (which of course dictates we stop questioning it). | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 2:22:39 PM | | there is a very simple answer to controlling human population ethically...you cant...the best way to control human population has been and always will be war/disease... | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 6:53:14 PM |
rhaps procreation is the hobbie of choice among people of more modest means.
Sex is the poor man's polo (snobby English expression of course) | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 8:18:55 AM |
The most ethical way to control human population is through contraception and education. But I realize that any kind of sex-education is considered repellent to most religious fundamentalists, but I believe that is the only ethical way that I know of that will control our population. Mother Nature is not as ethical or nice at controlling population.
I agree 100%. A population which is educated and has access to birth control is not going to continue expanding at an excessive rate, while one without those resources certainly will.
I couldn't possibly care less what religious fundamentalists have to say about this (or about anything else.) They are consistently wrong about everything, and therefore their opinions are of no consequence. | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 2:31:34 PM | People make some very time-worn statements about human population and for the most part they simply don't apply.
First of all "Mother Nature" lost control of our population about ten thousand years ago (at least) when we figured out agriculture. In other words , don't wait for her to do something about it. If either has control over the other it's us over her.
Secondly , war and disease are historically only temporary "fixes". The first thing people do when they finish shooting each other is to have sex. It's actually worse because after a war , people just aren't concerned with anything but replacing lost loved ones and they don't usually have the educational infrastructure in place to explain what's going on. No more plows creates a need for more people to do the same work.
No disease has ever wiped out every single member of the human race. There have certainly been some demographic catasrophes but considering that we're nearly up to seven billion now , obviously we can't count on disease to put a cap on our numbers.
The only way we've ever found to limit our numbers is education and money. These two must go together as well since one without the other will not have the desired effect. | |
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Posted: 6/25/2009 12:30:34 AM | How can we control human population in an ethical manner?
Bribe people not to procreate
Have requirements for procreation
Will they work?
nope
I'm still holding out for the zombie apocalypse. | |
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