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What is the solution to overpopulation?
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Nightmares
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Restrict how many children someone can have
I think 2 max lmao
I think 2 max lmao
KaydeeKrunk
The Late Great Turt
Kill everyone. Or make the Purge real. When a species is over populated we usually hunt it and try to use it for stuff. So I mean Soylent Green anyone?
visibleghost
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education, stopping child deaths (so people will have to have less children in order for some of them to survive), making poverty a smaller issue etc. (in parts of the world where not many are educated and poverty is a big problems people have more children because of reasons. (for instance they need more children to bring in family to the family. also education stops as many children being born because through education the people can get a better paying job, don't have to have many children etc. also young women who are in school don't have as many children as women the same age who are not in school.)
as for our resources the western world needs to stop using so many resources. we would have enough food for everyone if we changed how we eat and treat food. a crap load of food is thrown away, food that could have been eaten. and meat is bad in many ways. other than that it's bad for the environment and those stuff it also takes up a lot of space.
basically, on the fields where we grow food for animals that we later kill to eat we could instead grow veggies and stuff that would give more food than meat would. (because since the animal also is alive n stuff you know it burns calories but, like, carrots or w/e don't burn calories sO you don't lose anything from growing stuff that you later eat yourself, but when you give it to an animal that you intend to eat later you lose Food Energy lol. idk if this made sense but. ye.)
as for our resources the western world needs to stop using so many resources. we would have enough food for everyone if we changed how we eat and treat food. a crap load of food is thrown away, food that could have been eaten. and meat is bad in many ways. other than that it's bad for the environment and those stuff it also takes up a lot of space.
basically, on the fields where we grow food for animals that we later kill to eat we could instead grow veggies and stuff that would give more food than meat would. (because since the animal also is alive n stuff you know it burns calories but, like, carrots or w/e don't burn calories sO you don't lose anything from growing stuff that you later eat yourself, but when you give it to an animal that you intend to eat later you lose Food Energy lol. idk if this made sense but. ye.)
Nightmares
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dude my moms from nigeria we did nothing wrong :///put it in places in like Europe or the US, not just poorer countries uwu.
Yeah, why just poor countries xD
I vote for all countries lmao
misakixx
Senior Member
dude my moms from nigeria we did nothing wrong :///
i know you did nothing wrong but last time i checked it had almost 200 million people like wow. o_o and i did mention the west but that country was one of the first to come to mind since i recently found out how many people lived there and i was just like omfh so many. o_o i would enforce it in my country too if i could. im half dutch and like 17 million people on this extremely tiny land mass and really hate it here theres literally no nature or pretty scenery. >,<
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i didnt say just poor countries. i mentioned the west too but those 3 countries are the first to come to mind when theres overpopulation. i dont think its needed in countries like mongolia tho where its literally almost empty. feeling like everyone is skipping the west part while reading my comment tho. smh >,<
Fleshy
Senior Member
I'm going to address other factors not just "overpopulation" because that isn't the only problem, nor really the main cause of the problems the the world is facing in regard to this. To find a solution to a problem such as overpopulation, you really need to be aware of the causes, why are we experiencing overpopulation? Most people automatically think that it's due to having too many children, and don't realise there's other massive factors, like the decline in death rate - such a massive proportion of the population are elderly (60+), this is something we caused, due to advanced in medical care and suchlike, we can't exactly go back on it now.
Space: Build ALL houses upwards, housing is a big problem, especially in the west where most people are greedy and want a nice reasonably sized house with a garden, but if all living areas were multi-story apartment buildings with hundreds of floors, you'd get 200+ houses in the space of 2.
Food: Distribution of food and other resources, we have way more than enough food on earth to adequately feed everyone, so that nobody goes hungry or starves to death due to lack of food, however, the distribution of said food is a massive problem, again mainly due to the greedy west. Also, less meat and dairy consumption would be a good thing as the amount of food and water that goes into feeding animals for people to consume could feed everyone in the world, but instead the animal goes to feeding a few. Also, the amount of space used to farm animals is ridiculous.
Education: This is mainly an issue in less developed countries, but not exclusively. In many countries the job for a woman is simply to get married and have children, and starting this at such a young age leads to many, many children in that woman's life, we really need to do more than what we're currently doing to bring education to countries that don't have it. If a girl is educated, she will learn that getting married and having children young isn't her only option, there's other options for women.
I would also like to say that a one child policy is NOT a good idea, not at all. China abolished their policy for a reason, in attempt to lower the number of female infanticide (killing of female babies). While it did lower the number of children born, it also led to a significant gender gap as well as other problems. When the one child policy was implemented in China, many couples valued male babies over female ones, this led to many unwanted baby girls, and since only one child was allowed, the fate of these female babies often wasn't a good one, with orphanages becoming way overrun and filled with baby girls, others wouldn't have even made it to an orphanage. Is this really something we want to be advocating? I'm not denying that it worked to some extent, but the negatives out-weigh the positives to me. Not only that but policing what someone can do with their body to such an extent really doesn't sit well with me at all, there has to be better options.
I could say so much more on this topic, but there's no point in me blabbing on anymore. At the end of the day, we let it go too far, people should have been trying to seriously do something about the world's problems long, long ago, now we're in deep **** and there's likely no way we're getting out of it.
Space: Build ALL houses upwards, housing is a big problem, especially in the west where most people are greedy and want a nice reasonably sized house with a garden, but if all living areas were multi-story apartment buildings with hundreds of floors, you'd get 200+ houses in the space of 2.
Food: Distribution of food and other resources, we have way more than enough food on earth to adequately feed everyone, so that nobody goes hungry or starves to death due to lack of food, however, the distribution of said food is a massive problem, again mainly due to the greedy west. Also, less meat and dairy consumption would be a good thing as the amount of food and water that goes into feeding animals for people to consume could feed everyone in the world, but instead the animal goes to feeding a few. Also, the amount of space used to farm animals is ridiculous.
Education: This is mainly an issue in less developed countries, but not exclusively. In many countries the job for a woman is simply to get married and have children, and starting this at such a young age leads to many, many children in that woman's life, we really need to do more than what we're currently doing to bring education to countries that don't have it. If a girl is educated, she will learn that getting married and having children young isn't her only option, there's other options for women.
I would also like to say that a one child policy is NOT a good idea, not at all. China abolished their policy for a reason, in attempt to lower the number of female infanticide (killing of female babies). While it did lower the number of children born, it also led to a significant gender gap as well as other problems. When the one child policy was implemented in China, many couples valued male babies over female ones, this led to many unwanted baby girls, and since only one child was allowed, the fate of these female babies often wasn't a good one, with orphanages becoming way overrun and filled with baby girls, others wouldn't have even made it to an orphanage. Is this really something we want to be advocating? I'm not denying that it worked to some extent, but the negatives out-weigh the positives to me. Not only that but policing what someone can do with their body to such an extent really doesn't sit well with me at all, there has to be better options.
I could say so much more on this topic, but there's no point in me blabbing on anymore. At the end of the day, we let it go too far, people should have been trying to seriously do something about the world's problems long, long ago, now we're in deep **** and there's likely no way we're getting out of it.
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Tensu
Senior Member
More seriously though, there is plenty of room in the United States and the rest of the world for cities. We can build skyscrapers and even earthscrapers (look it up, it's pretty cool). There is plenty of room in the world for people, a surplus in fact. There really is no issue with overpopulation at the moment and probably not in a VERY long time. The real issue is that we can't make these cities happen because we simply don't have the money on this earth.
Even without the cities I've mentioned, there is still room for people. Many homes are selling constantly, and there's plenty of space for people who needed, but the thing is, we don't have the money to make it happen. Yeah, there's plenty of space, but how would we get water, food, electricity, and funding to build cities without money? The real issue isn't overpopulation at all, it's money.
This is why it's so important to contribute to charities and give money to the poor. They're really fine where they are, they just need money. You can't just complain about overpopulation and not do anything. If we take action soon, we can actually help out the situation, we probably will never solve the problem fully, but we can and should make an effort to help out.
Even without the cities I've mentioned, there is still room for people. Many homes are selling constantly, and there's plenty of space for people who needed, but the thing is, we don't have the money to make it happen. Yeah, there's plenty of space, but how would we get water, food, electricity, and funding to build cities without money? The real issue isn't overpopulation at all, it's money.
This is why it's so important to contribute to charities and give money to the poor. They're really fine where they are, they just need money. You can't just complain about overpopulation and not do anything. If we take action soon, we can actually help out the situation, we probably will never solve the problem fully, but we can and should make an effort to help out.
TarzanGirl
Senior Member
Birth control and encouraging people to have fewer children.
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Are you serious? The problem isn't physical space, it's about resources.
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Are you serious? The problem isn't physical space, it's about resources.
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