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We are Numerous. That is the real problem.
Would we be having inane discussions about immigration, global warming, oil depletion, shortage of food, high gas costs, and traffic congestion, if there were 80% fewer people around?
The human population is now over 6.6 billion humans.[1] There are many of us, more than have ever existed in the last 5,000 years of recorded history.
Given that we have so many problems -- environmental, social, political, energy, food -- it seems that the main problem in the room is that there are too fucking many of us multiplying like rabbits and mice, burping out more humans to repeat the same process all over again.
The solution, population control, "is the practice of limiting population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate."[2]
Solutions I can think of in 60 seconds...
War with nukes
Disease - make a new one like AIDS or Ebola or Bird Flu
Pay people to have one kid
Tax breaks for fewer kids
Public education about condoms and birth control in all schools, government agencies and offices, hospitals
Make the cost of living really high (cities)
Okay, obviously I don't want ALL of the solutions above, but they are population control solutions. Then again, wait a second.
Isn't overpopulation clouding the bigger issue of wasteful consumption by Americans and Europeans and Japanese? You'd need 4 or 5 Earths if all 6.6 billion humans lived the same wasteful lifestyle as people living in these three places.
As the AT&T ad campaign would say, we call it
Houstokyondon
Osakamilangeles
Berlineattlagoya
-timmy
1. Current world population of humans is at least 6.6 billion, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
2. Population control, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_control
food
limit the amount of food available
(ethanol anyone??)
Good discussion of overpopulation over at TOD
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3402#comments
Good commentary. Let's have more here!