Animal overpopulation

Vanilla Gorilla, I can totally understand the distrust of Boomers by Millennials. My generation inherited great opportunities by all of the hard, and unselfish, work our previous generation left us. And, what did us Baby Boomers do? We selfishly took our great pension plans, moved to places like The Villages in Florida, and voted in politicians that are against pensions, good health coverage, and decent wages so we won't have to pay as much income tax.

So, if the movie 'Logan's Run' were remade today, instead of 30 would the kill age be 60? You know, I just can't find a legitimate argument against it.

 

Off topic but I read the other day this place has one of the highest STDs rates in the country despite the average age being over 65

 

ignoring the promiscuity argument, i suppose this still makes sense just because everyone there has had 65 years to catch an STD rather than the national average of 35 or whatever it may be.

 

I heard it was because it's more normal now to get divorced and have new relationships in later life.

 

I think you know what it really means.

Its not going to be driven by the full spread of the remaining 65+ ladies equally. And guys that age are either already dead or have that look like they are one sharp jolt away from a stroke

You know, that 5% of the female population that have always been there, always worse than the guys are......

 

I think the OP has an issue with people

 

Its not about Boomers vs Millenials

If you want to somehow cut the human population. Trying to do that by stopping the newborns doesnt make sense, you would just end up with depressing Children of Men scenarios, a world with an even higher % of old people, then 50 years later, suddenly a world with next to no people

This is why the Greta Thunbergs of the world are so scary to some. She is only one catch phrase away from getting a billion people to ask themselves, well, why cant we afford a house? Why are we spending so much on old peoples healthcare? At the cost of what? Our own survival in the end

PS: If you havent seen Children of Men, watch it

1. Its a damn good movie
2. In one way, one of the scariest movies of the last 30 years. The life of one newborn more important that the population of an entire country

 

In America at least this topic has become an alt-right dog whistle. Someone is telling you white English speakers it's wrong to have kids. It's the great replacement theory.
Great Replacement - Wikipedia

Also a lot of are Bible nuts and god tells you to be fruitful. Yeah that is written by men in a time when there is no birth control but rhythm method and people die from wars, accidents, and disease all the time. The life expectancy was low then not because everyone died young just most people who die die young. People lived into their 90's to 100's in some cases if they were lucky and ate. The world always needed more people. Human life was more like other animals. For example a snake will lay dozens of eggs at once. If they all lived there is too many snakes. Most don't live. So even people who sell reptiles will stop making them have sex at some point since it's much drain on their resources.

Humans need to think of this concept too. We are smart enough to not die now and smart enough to control reproduction while still having sex.

 

I knew a lady who died a year ago. In her 70s..cancer.. Did not undergo any treatment. Just let it run its course and it was all over quite quickly. That is admirable to me, and I hope I would do the same.

 

this is literally fucking eugenics, and there is enough space overpopulation is a complete fucking myth praised by psychopaths and people who love passing the buck onto others. fucking nasty

 

But look how FDR era politics are demonized even within the Democratic party.

I dont really see it as a boomer problem though, I see it as a money problem. Democrats are more subtle about it but most of them are there to represent their corporate donors, just like the Republicans

 

The problem with overpopulation is the impact a lot of humans have on the environment. It's not like as long there's plenty of space left there never is an overpopulation problem.
Overpopulation is not praised by anybody, so that's a curious wording. Maybe you ment population control is praised only by psychopaths and 'people who love passing the buck to others'? Seems a retarded generalisation as well.

 

AS long as there is money to be made---humans will keep procreating until it's standing room only on this little space ship we're on. Hell, there will be enough food and water for several hundred billion peo---oh------wait----

 

well in the US most wild animal populations are controlled by hunting...ducks, geese, deer, ect because there is not enough forage or food to support large numbers, so poulations are estimated and numbers of harvested are estimated based on previous years numbers of hunters. Tricky with people because you can't hunt them, so state sponsored sterilization was floated in the late 70's by a Nobel Prize winner and in the US it was universally rejected. The only thing that will result in a large drop in the world population is a great plague like the flu from early times or the Black plague. Maybe starting now with Corona virus in China, but I agree it is a world problem that is probably unfixable.

 

Yuck. That would also make for some of the most leathery pot roasts ever, Vanilla.

Once birth control was something being talked about. Even fiction authors -including film makers and comics authors- mused on the subject of overpopulation leading to an unsustainable state of things and eventually a worldwide oppressive regime, this issue was taken dead seriously but at some point the discussion stopped and even china revoked the one child policy and now we even have politicians trying to repeal legal abortion. Who are those responsible of this state of things, I have an idea or two about that. Who profits from an overcrowded world ?
Those who need cheap workforce or thrive over widespread misery.