You do know there are ways to prevent pregnancy, right?
In some countries they’re illegal.
But would people prevent birth with things like condoms? Some people actually want 4 kids. lol
Plus they aren’t foolproof. I have unfortunate friends who impregnated females despite using condoms every time.
There’s always adoption.
They probably buy shitty condoms, store them in bad conditions or for too long, use them wrong, or just have really bad luck. And if you are too stupid to use a condom then that’s your fault, you deserve to lose your manhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ
I know it’s old but it’s very convincing
on a side note :
you people forgot that yearly Millions upon millions of people Dies because of several reasons
so we conclude that birth rates are getting higher yet in the same time Death rates are getting ever higher especially during wars
Yes, but death rates only get higher because there are more people on the planet to die. If the death rates don’t raise proportionally to the birth rates, overpopulation continues.
No shit, it’s not a war if nobody dies.
The only viable way to reverse overpopulation is to limit the population. The problem with that is enforcing a population limit globally. Some countries won’t be willing. North America and Western Europe would be able to adhere effectively to a population limit (in majority) but other places such as China, India, most Arabic countries, and parts of South America would be unlikely to comply for various reasons, but mainly culture. Culture’s where a large family is a virtue and having 6 or 7 kids is commonplace.
Unfortunately it’s some of these same nations who are just as equally unwilling to cut down on pollution and increase recycling.
Have no illusions, the world’s population is already at breaking limit. There is not enough land to sustain food resources for everyone as it is.
I myself subscribe to the George Carlin school of thought, which says that the only thing we can do is sit tight and wait for the inevitable self-correction of the laws of nature.
Basically, when a population of organisms grows too large too fast and exhausts its resources, catastrophic mass death occurs. Not just lowering to acceptable levels, but near-eradication. A theory I heard interested me; during the Great Depression (which many people compare our situation to) things were not nearly so dire because there still existed new territory to expand to, land to transform for crop-crowing to allow for agricultural and economic growth. Today we have no such luxery. Instead of an increase in arable land we’re facing a decrease due to ecological changes (erosion, desertification), essentially leading to a decrease in global food output even as the population continues to grow.
As for strict overpopulation, even the strict “one-child-only” policy China introduced in the late 70s didn’t stop their population growth. It decreased it, sure, some people believe China’s population would about 2 billion if they hadn’t.
But anyway, there’s nothing any of us can do except wait for nature to take its course. Not like in some stupid 2012 or whatever where the Earth comes alive and tries to kill us or something stupid. More in that poverty and starvation will spread, as well as shortages of economy-driving fossil fuels, and we’ll all be fucked in some crazy Mad Max world for probably a century or two until everything rights itself.
Personally I’m really hoping it happens in my lifetime (and when I’m young enough to enjoy it) as it sounds really fucking fun. I mean imagine being like Mad Max and shit, wandering the deserted streets and countryside with your trusty canine sidekick and a sawed off hanging over your shoulder, fighting gangs of raiders and scavengers and shit.
Yeah, except that you have to be a thoroughly trained badass fighter to begin with, otherwise you are far more likely to find yourself among the victims, not the winners of civilization’s breakdown.
Or do you honestly expect to instantly transform into an athletic, battle-hardened survivalist and skilled gunman right after the shit hits the fan?
yup ,indeed
I remember reading once a very interesting but creepy Historical event back in the dark ages where the black plague hits the world ,mainly in Europe where it nearly killed 3\7 of Europe population ,imagine if a new plague hits the world again what can we do ?
Legalize all drugs and allow the addicts wipe themselves out. Natural chlorination of the gene pool?
Best idea I’ve heard all day. Of course it would actually result in less crime and lower prison populations resulting in less “career criminals” who learn the ropes in jail, less drug-related violence as the black markets became taxed and regulated as opposed to controlled by gangs, less drug-related death as a result of impure, contaminated, or inaccurately measured product, less middle-east fundamentalism as a main source of their financing drops in cost and is more widely available elsewhere, and less sickness as effective medicines are made available more cheaply.
So, maybe not the best solution for killing off people to save us from overpopulation. But a good idea nonetheless.
This.
I agree withe everything except the mad max part. The world won’t turn into mad max, the world’s gonna turn into Africa. And Africa, well it’s gonna be an even bigger shithole. There isn’t going to be any fun in slowly starving to death while some rich asshole is enjoying himself by eating caviar from one of the world’s last salmon.
That’s another issue, most of what we do to the world can be undone, perhaps not quickly, but it can still be undone. Extinction can’t. When the world goes to shit nobody is going to care about the dying polar bear on the last of the icecaps, or the very last whale being harpooned by Japanese fisherman. Eventually the population will rebound but those species will never come back which will have a very very severe impact on the world that it won’t come back from until long after we’re gone.
Go to Madagascar and shut down everything.
On a side note I know a way we can stop all people to stop breeding, we mass-produce D&D rulebooks and dice and make it popular.
Make a vaccine?
You sound like a dick. Unless you’re being ironic.
I say we just let natural selection take its course. I know many will starve, and many more of us will die… just like any species when there isn’t enough food in the ecosystem for everyone. In the end, we’re no different from any other animal on the planet.
As with my previous reply, if that’s your opinion you’re a dickhead of colossal scale.