What's your answer to the world population growth?

[Giraffe]

I have been reading Dan Brown's Inferno and whilst it is a jolly good read which I would recommend the overall theme is an interesting one. Simply put the world's population is growing at such an alarming rate and forecast to continue and therefore how can we sustain this with increasingly limited natural resources. In the book WHO (World Health Organisation) are trying to thwart one or two radical scientists who believe the answer is a worldwide disease being spread.

In the past such diseases, together with world wars have kept the population lower, but with the advances in medication keeping people alive and generally thwarting old and new diseases to a much greater extent the population can only go one way.

The graph below is a fairly scary picture.

So what is the answer?

 

[Titanic]

 

[Insel affe]

I have been reading Dan Brown's Inferno and whilst it is a jolly good read which I would recommend the overall theme is an interesting one. Simply put the world's population is growing at such an alarming rate and forecast to continue and therefore how can we sustain this with increasingly limited natural resources. In the book WHO (World Health Organisation) are trying to thwart one or two radical scientists who believe the answer is a worldwide disease being spread.

In the past such diseases, together with world wars have kept the population lower, but with the advances in medication keeping people alive and generally thwarting old and new diseases to a much greater extent the population can only go one way.

The graph below is a fairly scary picture.

So what is the answer?

Well the lovely Americans voting in Trump is a start, next Le Pen and Geert Wilders.... add Kim Jong-un, Bashar al-Assad and Putin into the mix I think there is a pretty good chance a nuke will be dispatched within the next few years and the rest will follow.

 

[sparkie]

Antibiotics will be near useless at some point in the future and then we'll enter the Age of the Germ.

 

[Lush]

Contraception available to all and empowerment of women so they have choices other than perpetual motherhood.

 

[Lush]

Alternatively, chop off men's goolies

 

[Brovion]

Alternatively, chop off men's goolies

Agreed. Off with goolies. It's the only sensible way forward.

 

[kentgully]

Fat birds

 

[beorhthelm]

there is no answer that is politically or ethically acceptable.

 

[Giraffe]

Fat birds

I fear in a lot of countries with extreme increases in population they like them a little on the fat side.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Get them all to watch Palace games every week. They'd soon lose the will to live.

 

[DavidRyder]

42.

 

[SeagullofMalaysia]

Harsh death penalties for criminals will somewhat help

 

[TimWatt]

Contraception available to all and empowerment of women so they have choices other than perpetual motherhood.

This

 

[Fungus]

Massive over-consumption by the countries also needs reducing. Population is only one factor; it's sustainability that's the issue.

Anyway, I did my bit and had the snip. No kids for me.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Education.

Japan has the highest enrolment of children in primary school, and has the lowest fertility rate in women of 1.3 children per women. As the enrolment in primary school education reduces, the fertility rate rises, you can see this across the world. It is inextricably linked.

 

[happypig]

Put Jeremy Hunt in charge of the WHO

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Africa
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DR

 

[StonehamPark]

Easy. Just put gems in everyone's hands.

 

[Bigtomfu]

Involuntary euthanasia?