Solving the Biggest Issue Facing the Planet Today

We control the growth of pretty much every other species on the planet and yet allow human population to grow at an alarming rate. We help people, through medicine, to have more kids.

Most countries of the third world recognize the problem and are trying to control population growth. In the developed nations, however, growth is a seldom talked about problem. After all, if you can afford to have kids, shouldn’t you be able to have as many as you want? Nobody seems to notice the vast amounts of farm land being consumed by Urban sprawl or the increases of pollution and stress brought on simply by our growing numbers. How long will it be before we run out of trees to use for paper to wipe our bums?

One problem is we are living longer, and trying to find ways to live longer. We are curing diseases and seeing once sterile people give birth to quadruplets. When will it end, and how?

If we do not address the overpopulation problem soon, we will have a mess on our hands. Animal shelters euthanize surplus numbers of pets, what will we do with excess people?

Actual Suggested Fixes

• In Logan’s Run, a 1976 film, the population was controlled by killing everyone who reached the age of 30 years.
• In the 1973 film, Soylent Green, people are encouraged to enter “Euthanasia” chambers and drink poison.
• In many fictional films, books, and television shows, they have used a “Lottery” system to determine whose turn it is to be put to death.
• Many movies and shows suggest that people deal with overpopulation by inhabiting other planets. This may or may not be possible, but is certainly the option most people would like to see as opposed to the others.
• Mandatory birth control be put in place for people who have had more than 1 child.
• Death sentences for people who have had more than two children.
• Allowing people to pick and choose how long they live. If they select to have no children they are allowed to live their full lifespan. If they select to have one child, they are allowed to live to the age of 60, if they have two children they are killed at 50 and so on.
• War. Killing off everyone you can, to make more space for the remaining people. War happens now, but often for control of a specific region, rather than simply for population controls.
• Some countries have passed laws on the number of children a family can have, and fine people who have more, China is one such country.
• Offering cash for men who have vasectomies or women who have tubal ligations.
• Some films and conspiracy theory fans have suggested that AIDS and other health issues where Government made population control measures.
• Stopping support payments (eg. Welfare) for people with more than one child.

I want to note that Genocide, the selective killing of a group of people based on race, is NOT a form of population control, it is an excuse to execute people based on hatred, most wars also fall into this category.

In Reality…

A lot of people deny that we will ever reach the stage where we need to enact or enforce any kind of population control on humans. Many do not even see a problem, insisting that there is still inhabitable land in Montana, for example. If we squish people onto every inhabitable square foot of land, where will we grow food? Where will we dispose of our waste. Will we allow any wild spaces?

If we continue to try to find ways to live longer, and at the same time insist on having kids, how soon until the scales are tipped and the government is forced to act? What control measure will they take? This is not about being politically correct, and allowing people their “Rights” to have kids, if it goes past a point, there will be no “Rights” involved.

Even one child is growth, because unless a parent dies during child birth – the family is now larger. You cannot count your childs’ birth as a replacement for your parents death, YOU were that replacement long time ago.

There is a real problem, even the United Nations has warned that barring Nuclear Threat, the number one concern should be world overpopulation. We need to act today, ourselves, BEFORE the Government will decide our fates, or the fates of our children.