What do you think is a viable solution (S) to the overpopulation problem?

Hello,

My name is Jessica and I recently graduated from griffith Uni (On the Gold Coast, QLD), with a Batchelor of Arts, majoring in creative writing and journalism, and I'm writing an article on overpopulation, and I was just wondering what environmentally-friendly solutions you see as being viable ways to either combat, or lessen the impact on the Earth?

If you could get back to me ASAP, I would really appreciate it as I want to send the article off for hopeful publication in the Gecko (Gold Coast and Hinterland Environmental Council's) newsletter as soon as I can.

and note: if you don't want to be quoted for your user name to be used, simply let me know in your response.

Thanks,

Jess

 

for people to be informed, and aware of their responsibilites as a citizen on this planet, and conscious of the affects they have on it, its as simple as that i think. people just need to stop crapping out litters of children like its nothing, and treating children like toys and cute things to give mommy something to do while daddys off being a slave to (insert greedy corporation here) share the kids you got and form some communities instead of everybody havin their own and teaching it to be just like you, isolated from nature and real community. try raisin a kid with some real love from a village, and try realizing that everybody else gets a little less room and a little less happiness for each new needy person you bring into the world. and stop marvelling when a couple has 15 children or whatever, society should FROWN and shun upon that stuff, and just wake up to the overpopulation problem first and foremost. im starry eyed dreaming of america to wake up i know, but its just common sense to me. read the book there is a tommorow by david nazar, it talks about this problem a bit and many other very interesting things... i promise you wont regret it.

or adopt a kid, or spend the cash on a charity feeding the hungry people who are already alive on this planet, or helping them or the planet somehow. take care of the humans walking the planet right here and now first off, and teach them to live in harmony and with some kind of love, and then worry about bringing more people into this dreadfully imperfect picture. if they insist on having children, reduce their impact by growing their own food and practicing sustainability wherever its possible, just being aware and working with things to make them better..and spreading the good word of sustainability to help balance things out. or maybe people could make use of their land, and put organic gardens everywhere instead of maintaining a lawn *shudders* i see no reason why all that arable land goes to waste, but it does and nobody is really into gardening or connecting with the earth and that which feeds them, and their really missing out i think. gardening is an incredibly fulfilling thing, and very healthy... the world could be a WHOOLE lot greener in many places, and then itd have much better energy imo. im a dreamer what can i say......

 

Women should stop pooping out all those babys.

 

haha overpopulation cannot be stopped. sex sex sex its a natural internal drive for a human to have sex whenever. we have no "mating season" thats why females ovulate at different times. and you never really know when you are going to do it. thats why you must have sex all the time.

 

Don't have intercourse, use a comdom and birth controll pills if you do, if you still get pregent have an abortion.

 

Man, that is such a good idea. I wish i lived in a place like that.

 

Hi guys / girls,

Thanks all for your responses. Much appreciated!

 

people should be more careful. and actually care about what they do. and think about their actions before they do them and how it can effect the world. it may not effect the whole world, or everyones lives, but it will effect that one person they mades life. that can go for nething. its a solution to so many problems. peace~

 

Advocate improving education for girls in under-developed nations. There is a correlation of fertility to level of education of women and countries with lower literacy rates esp. among females tend to have higher fertility rates. Also higher edu. means better employment and less dependency on the dowry.

Speaking of the dowry, campaign to have the dowry eliminated in countries like China and India and support employment opportunities for women so that they are not "valued" solely by their dowry. So many Western household are dual income earners, this basically eliminates the need for a dowry, not so in many other parts of the world. Without employment opportunities wives-to-be must come with dowries to offset the cost of supporting her. The dowry causes girls to become a liability and is one of the causes of female feticide which threatens to imbalance the male to female ratio in the population and discourage population management as parents will try again to have a son. In these cultures sons stays with the parents and takes care of them while the daughter moves in with her husband's family further causing a stronger preference for male children.

Because of these 2 factors mechanisms are needed to offset their effects by paying ppl to not have kids at all, paying ppl who commit to one kid only and paying considerably more if their only child is a girl. These kind of trust funds are already in place in some regions of China and India to encourage ppl to not abort female fetuses. Think of it as a retirement fund, money to see you thru old age so you don't have to rely on offsprings.

Also, set up a mechanism so that ppl in their senior years can live independent. People in poor nations, where pop. growth is the highest cannot afford to save for retirement and so depend on their offspring in their old age.

In the West we have retirement funds and now even reverse mortgages. Reverse mortgage is the process where you can live off the equity of your home once all other savings are exhausted, this is more attractive for childless ppl who have no heirs to pass the house on. Programs like this gives seniors independence and ppl will therefore have less reliance on offsprings.

 

While I appreciate your noting that female humans don't go into "heat" we now have such a thing as contraceptives. But ya, the need to procreate is definitely strong, those who create the most offsprings (viable ones) pass on their genes to the next generation.

 

We have to fucus on socio-economic disparity in the world and on the lack of education not only in the third world, but also in the so called "developed" world.

 

thanks for all those replies! much appreciated.

I'll post the article up when I'm through, if you'd like.

 

the problem these days is that evolution is stagnant and birth rates are outpacing death rates (simply put more stupid and weak people making more stupid and weak babies) so heres how we let nature correct this problem
-complete breakdown of society( if you cannot learn to provide food, shelter, healthcare and protection for your self then natural selection dictates that you do not deserve to exist)
-a world wide pandemic (avian flu should do the job quite nicely)

with inferior people killed off by warfare, disease, and famine there will be a hand full of hearty, highly intelligent, strong people to carry on and rebuild civilization. or we'll just go completely extinct.

 

Now see, that kind of thinking is what results from believing evoluion. I'll bet you want to put inferior races of people in concertration camps and kill them. You're talking like Hitler himself.

 

i couldn't agree more, really this is the only way to effectivly stop or slow down overpopulation.

 

Thanks, guys. I think your methods are a little harsh, though!

 

There is no population problem. It's all propaganda put out by the Global Elitists as an excuse to push international law and eugenics. The people behind the population myth could not care less about you or the environment they are helping to destroy, and it's about time you people come to realize this.

 

I have a solution for the overpopulation and hunger problems. Start eating babies. That is all. Of course you know I am kidding.

 

Hi all,

Thanks for your comments today, and I have to ask: Pressed_rat: do you have any evidence to back that up? if so, please post it, I am very interested in reading / and perhaps using some of it!

Jess.

 

Sorry for not reading other people's threads but:

Stop sending medical and agricultural aid to third world countries. They are in poverty because they are overpopulated. Our life preserving methods are too effective, we should send aid in the form of helping people find stable ways to live instead of simply preserving life. Sadly, we in the western world thrive on preserving life instead of improving its quality or dignity.