[Politics] Are there too many people 2020

[Saltydog]

 

[1066familyman]

If you have a look at the evidence, there's a strong case to be made that the real problem is not population numbers but, rather, rates of consumption and, most particularly, the consumption of a narrow sector towards the top of society.

Exactly this.

 

[A1X]

I don't think many would argue there aren't probably too many people on the planet. The question is what do you intend to do to change it? As I see it, these are your options;

A. Enforced euthanasia on a criteria of your choice (e.g. age, disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
B. Mass sterilisation of young people on a criteria of your choice (e.g. disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
C. Voluntary euthanasia (will this make up the requisite numbers?)

 

[darkwolf666]

Why do people start these type of grenade threads, then not contribute to the debate?

 

[Machiavelli]

I don't think many would argue there aren't probably too many people on the planet. The question is what do you intend to do to change it? As I see it, these are your options;

A. Enforced euthanasia on a criteria of your choice (e.g. age, disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
B. Mass sterilisation of young people on a criteria of your choice (e.g. disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
C. Voluntary euthanasia (will this make up the requisite numbers?)

Good post, although there is another option which seems to be having an effect. This is in general, but three are plenty of disappointing exceptions to this. Invest in education, promote feminism and all it entails (eg contraception, family planning) and redistribute wealth. We've come far on the first two although can go much further, although we've gone far, far backwards on the last one.

 

[beorhthelm]

I don't think many would argue there aren't probably too many people on the planet. The question is what do you intend to do to change it? As I see it, these are your options;

A. Enforced euthanasia on a criteria of your choice (e.g. age, disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
B. Mass sterilisation of young people on a criteria of your choice (e.g. disability, fitness, race, religion, intelligence)
C. Voluntary euthanasia (will this make up the requisite numbers?)

there's also an option of returning to an agrarian life, without modern conveniences. most the western population would starve, so we'd stop consuming so much, and those left could live on for generations without worry.

 

[Seagull]

https://populationmatters.org/ is good source info on this subject
A large number of humans could live on the planet if we lived sustainably but that seems hard to make a norm given the disparate living conditions of current humanity. Covid restrictions show what could be possible though in terms of changing the way we live. In Japan population is estimated to fall radically (maybe by 30m) & the reproduction rate of non recent immigrant British, I have read, is about 1.7 so it seems economically advanced society naturally produces solutions.