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Originally posted by anti72
stick your´intelligent , good reasons´for depopulation upwhere else.
love.
[edit on 1-11-2007 by anti72]
Originally posted by Miishgoos
My Opinion
The planet should be depopulated and moved to another world where there are
more resources to exploit.
Possibly several colonies on different moon's and planets.
The result was that the sixfold increase in world population was dwarfed by the eighty-fold increase in world output. As real incomes rose, people were able to live healthier lives. Infant mortality rates plummeted and life expectancies soared. According to anthropologists, average life expectancy could never have been less than 20 years or the human race would not have survived. In 1900 the average world life expectancy was about 30 years. In 1993 it is just over 65 years. Nearly 80 percent of the increase in world life expectancy has taken place in just the last 90 years! That is arguably one of the single most astonishing accomplishments in the history of humanity. It is also one of the least noted.
if the entire population of the world were placed in the state of Alaska, every individual would receive nearly 3,500 square feet of space, or about one-half the size of the average American family homestead with front and back yards.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
if the entire population of the world were placed in the state of Alaska, every individual would receive nearly 3,500 square feet of space, or about one-half the size of the average American family homestead with front and back yards.
Originally posted by Gorman91
Well if you were talking about forced depopulation, that = Nazism, no forfeit.
Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
Why not just cut back on the amount of people our planet has?
I don't understand the rationale behind "WE COULD TAKE OVER OTHER PLANETS AND PUT PEOPLE OVER THERE."
Yeah.. Or we could do some pretty common math and reduce our overall population, thus reducing our overall consumption. Save you the long boring trip, the artificial atmosphere, being eaten by space creatures and everything.
Originally posted by Redge777
The idea of less people is really sound and makes alot of sense
The problem is who decides who lives who dies, who has kids who doesn't
(I say this in jest to illuminate the point.) Shouldn't those who believe in depopulation start with themselves?
Ineffectiveness
Some criticism declare that this policy is ineffective. Stephen Mosher gave a speech in Chinese Martyrs Catholic Church in Markham, Ontario, which strongly criticized this policy. He argued that "Demographers have no conception of overpopulation. What they mean is poverty...Famine and starvation does happen in the world, but it happens as a result usually of government interference with the production of food... We produce enough grain that everyone could eat a couple pounds of grain a day. We have a problem with distributing food, but we don’t have a problem with overall food production. The world today could feed about 12 to 14 billion people." [53] He further argued that China used propaganda and brainwashing sessions to encourage its citizens to agree to abort their child. Comparing Mao Zedong's failure of the Great Leap Forward, he argued that it is government mismanagement and government intervention that led to famine and sortage of food. Mosher further declared that this policy hinders China's economic development, while the Communist Party believes that it is the opposite. He argued that population growth is the main contributor to economic growth.
Stephen Moore from the Cato Institute declares the One child policy as "genocide". He believed that government intervention is ineffective as it creates pollution, food shortage and famines, but free market capitalism is the solution to solving its environmental problems and overpopulation. [54]