Population Growth

[burning blue soul]

Anybody with an I.Q. of less than 100 should be sterilised or neutered.

Controversial maybe, but it would help alleviate the problem..........

Also medical advancements are helping to keep the population rising. 40 years ago, infant and child mortality rates were far higher than they are today, and the older generation were also dying at a younger age than they are now.

Western "conscience" also doesn't help. Instead of folk like Bob Geldof proclaiming "feed the world", we should be giving these people birth control. If you can't feed yourself, don't have 5 or 6 kids. Harsh but true.

If you don't agree........see my opening sentence.

If you still disagree.........see my second sentence.

IF you still disagree..........come up with a better solution.

i do believe a guy called adholf famously tried to introduce this a while back. he couldnt get it off the ground though. some doubters, there were!

 

[drthingy]

we ll have a proper flu epidemic soon. thatll knock a few million off. good luck everyone !

 

[pee dubya]

Can't we colonise the oceans next?

 

[pominoz]

Can't we colonise the oceans next?

Cool, we can fuck the oceans up as well (or even more).

 

[pee dubya]

Can't we colonise the oceans next?

Cool, we can fuck the oceans up as well (or even more).

Masdar on water, throw enough money at it and given new technologies it should be relatively sustainable.

Probably have to develop nuclear fusion first to create enough energy to undertake such a huge project though.

 

[intheknow!]

Looks like we're all doomed unless there's a cull of a few billion, so who's going to get it first?

WOW!

Just imagine how many Chinese there would be now, if they had not been as strict with the one child policy? China has been successful in lifting huge numbers of their population out of poverty during their economic progress unlike India.

It's really amazing to see the numbers and realise that in global terms white people are a small minority and are only going to become an even smaller minority due to low birth rates, inter marriage etc etc and the huge growth of other racial and ethnic groups.

 

[johnny on the spot]

Nature will sort it. Ruthlessly.

 

[117 M34]

Anybody with an I.Q. of less than 100 should be sterilised or neutered.

Controversial maybe, but it would help alleviate the problem..........

Also medical advancements are helping to keep the population rising. 40 years ago, infant and child mortality rates were far higher than they are today, and the older generation were also dying at a younger age than they are now.

Western "conscience" also doesn't help. Instead of folk like Bob Geldof proclaiming "feed the world", we should be giving these people birth control. If you can't feed yourself, don't have 5 or 6 kids. Harsh but true.

If you don't agree........see my opening sentence.

If you still disagree.........see my second sentence.

IF you still disagree..........come up with a better solution.

The IQ test is suited for those in the Western world. Many people in Africa/Asia who wouldn't get a score of 100 would be able to do so if they were living in the Western world with Western culture.

 

[intheknow!]

Europe is facing a quite different problem to the rest of the world. We literally are becoming the 'old Continent'. That will bring with it huge challenges and enormous financial costs because the population is ageing and living longer and longer, also birth rates are low. People who say, 'have less children' blah blah blah are missing the point, because in Europe, women like me are not having enough children NOT too many. Who will support the increasing numbers of elderly? Those who expect increasingly complex healthcare and benefits for a good standard of living? In economic terms the old are a drain on resources, they don't contribute anything to the economy because they take welfare in the form of pensions and all the healthcare they need, in terms of the chronic conditions and care needs associated with an ageing population, will place an enormous if not intolerable strain on public spending and health care systems.

A debate needs to happen in Europe, but not about restrictions on the number of children to have but about an ageing population. We need to start thinking more in terms of 'quality of life' and not 'life for the sake of it'.

 

[pominoz]

Europe is facing a quite different problem to the rest of the world. We literally are becoming the 'old Continent'. That will bring with it huge challenges and enormous financial costs because the population is ageing and living longer and longer, also birth rates are low. People who say, 'have less children' blah blah blah are missing the point, because in Europe, women like me are not having enough children NOT too many. Who will support the increasing numbers of elderly? Those who expect increasingly complex healthcare and benefits for a good standard of living? In economic terms the old are a drain on resources, they don't contribute anything to the economy because they take welfare in the form of pensions and all the healthcare they need, in terms of the chronic conditions and care needs associated with an ageing population, will place an enormous if not intolerable strain on public spending and health care systems.

A debate needs to happen in Europe, but not about restrictions on the number of children to have but about an ageing population. We need to start thinking more in terms of 'quality of life' and not 'life for the sake of it'.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwHOHiSn3g[/youtube]