Originally posted by Cthulwho
If we were to apply this to humans, at some point overpopulated countries will reach breaking point. When this happens there will be mass starvation, disease, war and death. In order to maintain the natural population balance, as seen with foxes and rabbits, foreign countries cannot interfere. As bad as that sounds it's true, we don't go and feed the fox population when the rabbit population dwindles, and we also don't go and save the rabbits from been eaten by foxes.

Well forgive me but i'd prefer to not have mass starvation! I'd prefer to create programs that would make having more than say 2 children per family a negative thing. Taxing it comes to mind and cutting off child support for anyone who has more than two kids. Note i wouldn't make such a policy retroactive.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
To solve the problem of land for farmming, could we build sky-scrapers of hydroponic farms? Seems like we'd have the ability to do that by now.

Wow you know that's a great idea and I've never heard it before. But I think it would cause the price of produce to bottom out which would mean whoever built the skyscrapers would end up in the hole. And if the government did it then all the farmers would go broke. So that's probably why it's never happened. Good idea though.

@Cthulwho: Totally agree. Star.

good points anti-tyrant but the main problem i forsee is TRASH, WASTE

and there it is skipper, we are human and because we are so evov=lved we are our own worst enemy we have always been and always will be
pride, power, money, religion, sex, rich, poor, envy, jealosy, blood, thats us ...period

Originally posted by Skipper1975

this planet's humans need to make some major changes ASAP...current course is not going to work imo..

Unfortunately, Skipper, i don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

Perhaps it will once we've dealt with this particular issue.

Perhaps this is more important than dealing with humanity's failures.

If we focus too much on our failures, we'll never succeed.

OK i'll clarify why i want a control on the global population. This is how i see the future going based solely on logic.

We keep increasing our population (estimates are 80 million a year), we keep improving our farming methods but at some point we can't do more on that one. The population grows and grows until we hit a big tipping point, suddenly stores of food run out, we can't produce enough, the remaining supplies are dealt out by government in an emergency.

Everyone eats for a while, feel safe and then it all runs out. It starts slow with some people running out faster, they riot, fighting their neighbors for food, even killing for it. Eventually all the food is gone and getting more is extremely difficult because with everyone hungry the infrastructure of countries falls apart. Truck drivers, airplane pilots, workers in factories, all of them are to hungry to work and transport food.

At this point everything goes wrong, medical systems halt, food is gone unless you find it yourself and billions of people die until an equalibrium is again reached. Like my first explanation about the graph however i left a point out. When the foxes reach their bottom, their population is far lower than the rabbits, it has to get very bad before an equal footing can be reached again.

That's the first choice, the second choice is population control, preventing this ever happening.

Global Solutions:

- Stop sending food aid to 3rd world nations.

- Stop sending medical aid to 3rd world nations.


National Solutions:

Stop all forms of immigration for at least a minimum of 10 years.

Begin deporting each and every illegal alien.

Instead of the retarded, "faith based" view of teaching abstinence, mandate birth control education in every school.

It would seem that humanity isn't ready to move into the next space-age.


Maybe once we learn to stop being critics the stark reality of our doomed existence will become apparent.

We can't turn back on this - if we turn back we will use the resources we need to get materials from other planets to support our over-whelming population.

We HAVE to move forwards!

[edit on 7-7-2008 by Anti-Tyrant]

Do i have to make this clear?

We do not have a choice.

Either we put serious time and serious effort into;

A) Supporting the increasing population as it is, so that more minds and more effort can be put into technological advancements.

and

B) Working constantly on better methods of space-propulsion.

Or

We die.

Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
Or, we could single-mindedly work towards getting ourselves out this mess by working together.

Let's face it, people are never going to accept the culling of humans out of nessecity for population control, so instead of focusing on that, i think we should spend time and a lot of effort working on alternative means to ensure that humanity's population can continue increasing.

I'm getting tired of this, i have nowhere at any point suggested killing human beings, i have gone out of my way to say i'm against the killing of a human. Really is unfair to put words in my mouth. We don't need more people than we have at the moment, if we don't start plans to control population then we will see mass starvation of the entire world.

Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
Of course, until we get it into our heads that we need to migrate to another planet, we have to figure out terrestrial solutions, three of which i have highlighted for the purposes of discussion.

Well we don't have the techology for it at the moment. You can talk abot secret tech all you want but i mean the people don't have access to such things if they exist.

Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
If we ensure the population can continue to grow at the rate it is for a further 100 (more, preferably) years, then i know we will have the technological capability to migrate to a different planet.

Population growth helps technology advancment? Whilst i understand the idea we would have a higher chance of creating great geniuses, i doubt it would advance us that far.

Originally posted by slackerwire

I said stop sending aid to 3rd world nations which continually have higher birth rates compared to modern, civilized nations. Let natural selection work.

Say what you like, that will be the cause of their deaths.

Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984

1)I'm getting tired of this, i have nowhere at any point suggested killing human beings, i have gone out of my way to say i'm against the killing of a human. Really is unfair to put words in my mouth. We don't need more people than we have at the moment, if we don't start plans to control population then we will see mass starvation of the entire world.

I believe we do need more people, we need more manpower.

There is always a use for labour, even if it is labouring to create a better tomorrow.

Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
2)Well we don't have the techology for it at the moment. You can talk abot secret tech all you want but i mean the people don't have access to such things if they exist.

Then we protect what we do know and protect what we acheive.

If they aren't willing to give us the technology, then we have to make it for ourselves.

Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
3) Population growth helps technology advancment? Whilst i understand the idea we would have a higher chance of creating great geniuses, i doubt it would advance us that far.

Even a small advancement is better than none, i'm sure you agree.