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post 1503427001 05-03-2017, 10:31 PM
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Wanting intelligent answers, how do we (humans) plan to manage overpopulation?

I've wondered this, surely the heads of most major governments have sat in a back room somewhere and wondered where this will leave us in the next 20-30 years.

We're over 7 billion now and will hit 8, 9, and 10 quickly.


I'm not looking for the tinfoil hat answers please, no rothschild enslavement bs, but can an intelligent person tell me what they have heard about overpopulation on Earth?


I've heard vague concepts a while back about how the population may stop growing at some point due to some reason I can't remember, like it will naturally cap out at 10 billion or so and it's not as serious of an issue as I remembered, but who knows how true that is.


Thoughts?
post 1503427071 05-03-2017, 10:32 PM
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nuke mexico, india, china, indonesia, nigeria, brazil and pakistan

problem solved

nobody will miss those countries anyway

throw the states of california and ny in there too just for fun

tbh There is no humane way to resolve it. As resources become more scarce, increased competition, poverty, and warfare will follow. Overpopulated countries will suffer from dramatic income inequality and economic problems due to rioting and crime from the unemployed. We are like bacteria in a petri dish. We will continue to grow and overpopulate the environment until we reach the carrying capacity, and then it will start to level off. It will be a chitty, miserable life for most people after that. The dream is that technological advancement will keep pushing that capacity line higher, but the truth is that we will eventually hit that line. Our technological gains are diminishing now relative to the growth.
post 1503427151 05-03-2017, 10:33 PM
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post 1503427171 05-03-2017, 10:33 PM
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Poor people dependent on the government should not be allowed to have children, not sure how that would be monitored/enforced though but it would help curb over population.
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post 1503427251 05-03-2017, 10:34 PM
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Step 1
- make everyone sign up to misc
Step 2
- make them all post for 1 year
Step 3
- round up all the reds
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- tie their feet to heavy bags of garbage and chuck into the mariana trench

Solves overpopulation, the slowing of misc and the garbage problem, all in one.
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post 1503427261 05-03-2017, 10:34 PM
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post 1503427291 05-03-2017, 10:35 PM
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Well overuse resources until we can no longer survive and the population begins to decline. During this time we will all probably go into panick attack mode and it will be survival of the fittest. Then when most of us are dead, this will give ample time for food and resources to replenish and the cycle restarts. I think
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We'll let the poor die in the streets while protecting the fortunate as best as we can.

That's the plan for everything.
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The same way we've dealt with literally every other catastrophe, by letting people die fight it out for the resources and letting everyone else die. I'm not sure why people are all up in arms about this. Hundreds of thousands of people die everyday from famine and disease, why exactly do you think it'll change?
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people wonderd the same thing when we hit 1 bil in the 1800/1900s.

don't worry about it, it'll all buff out. lol
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Originally Posted By wincel⏩
nuke mexico, india, china, indonesia, nigeria, brazil and pakistan

problem solved

nobody will miss those countries anyway

tbh There is no humane way to resolve it. As resources become more scarce, increased competition, poverty, and warfare will follow. Overpopulated countries will suffer from dramatic income inequality and economic problems due to rioting and crime from the unemployed. We are like bacteria in a petri dish. We will continue to grow and overpopulate the environment until we reach the carrying capacity, and then it will start to level off. It will be a chitty, miserable life for most people after that.
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Poor people dependent on the government should not be allowed to have children, not sure how that would be monitored/enforced though but it would help curb over population.
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Step 1
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Step 3
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Step 4
- tie their feet to heavy bags of garbage and chuck into the mariana trench

Solves overpopulation, the slowing of misc and the garbage problem, all in one.
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Originally Posted By 5percentnatty⏩
Well overuse resources until we can no longer survive and the population begins to decline. During this time we will all probably go into panick attack mode and it will be survival of the fittest. Then when most of us are dead, this will give ample time for food and resources to replenish and the cycle restarts. I think
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We'll let the poor die in the streets while protecting the fortunate as best as we can.

That's the plan for everything.
Originally Posted By PastorGaines⏩
The same way we've dealt with literally every other catastrophe, by letting people die fight it out for the resources and letting everyone else die. I'm not sure why people are all up in arms about this. Hundreds of thousands of people die everyday from famine and disease, why exactly do you think it'll change?
Originally Posted By sillydawg⏩
people wonderd the same thing when we hit 1 bil in the 1800/1900s.

don't worry about it, it'll all buff out. lol
Does anyone have any ACTUAL researched information?

and lol @ "hundreds of thousands die every day because of famine" LOL.
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You can already sense world leaders are doing chit about this..china with the building of artificial islands, the seed vault in the north pole, Bill Gates with his mysterious vaccine business that killed thousands on Indians and his wife who is a birth control advocate. I think once the population gets to around 15b chit will get real, something drastic will happen and it'll go back down to 2-4b
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Originally Posted By wincel⏩
nuke mexico, india, china, indonesia, nigeria, brazil and pakistan

problem solved

nobody will miss those countries anyway

throw california in there too just for fun

tbh There is no humane way to resolve it. As resources become more scarce, increased competition, poverty, and warfare will follow. Overpopulated countries will suffer from dramatic income inequality and economic problems due to rioting and crime from the unemployed. We are like bacteria in a petri dish. We will continue to grow and overpopulate the environment until we reach the carrying capacity, and then it will start to level off. It will be a chitty, miserable life for most people after that.
I just can't wait until it's a post-apocalyptic world where we have a bunch of wanderers, and I'll be one of the badass wanderers who don't make waves, but when **** gets down to the nitty gritty, I show I am not someone to be messed with. I never kill anyone but I make sure they know I have that choice. The entire time I'm trying to find the one guy that will make me clear my conscience and will enable me to live my life without guilt. He is my brother. I have an Angel Arm that can destroy entire cities in one blow. I will find my sanctuary in knowing that my brother will be dealt with, and I will have to worry no more.
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A) By producing more food. We've been doing that very well for the last half a century.

B) More advanced countries have alarmingly low fertility rate. The population in Europe and East Asia (Japan, China, Korea) is shrinking.

The only reason we are growing here is because of immigration, mexicans and rednecks. We'll build a wall and put a stop to that nonsense soon.



Overpopulation itself is not a problem. Overcrowding in big cities and overusing water is.
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We will collapse as a society within the next 100 years, population will plummet and we will start over. Something will occur either a huge natural disaster, nuke war, not enough food/water ext
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The planet's carrying capacity for humans is supposedly like 10 billion with the limiting factor being food supply.
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Originally Posted By Hadtodoit⏩
I've heard vague concepts a while back about how the population may stop growing at some point due to some reason I can't remember, like it will naturally cap out at 10 billion or so and it's not as serious of an issue as I remembered, but who knows how true that is.
In most 1st world countries they have a negative growth rate of the population. When you have XBox and birth control and no need to generate kids as a form of income/retirement planning, it kind of weeds itself out.
post 1503428171 05-03-2017, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted By ProteenBrah⏩
The planet's carrying capacity for humans is supposedly like 10 billion with the limiting factor being food supply.
There is no hard limit in carrying capacity. We don't know. We have been pushing our food supply up, and up for decades due to GMOs. Crops are bigger and more resistant. Thank Mosanto for that. (But **** them for their ****ed up patents screwing small farmers over.)
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Glass the entire Middle East and North Africa... that should help some.
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Once we have The Crusades II that will buy us another few hundred years
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Originally Posted By Hadtodoit⏩
Jesus christ, combined IQ of about 40 with all these replies lol.

Does anyone have any ACTUAL information that's worth reading?

and lol @ "hundreds of thousands die every day because of famine" LOL. Did you guys go to school
You seem smart. How do you think the human race is going to work together to solve such a problem?
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Originally Posted By Hadtodoit⏩
Jesus christ, combined IQ of about 40 with all these replies lol.

Does anyone have any ACTUAL information that's worth reading?

and lol @ "hundreds of thousands die every day because of famine" LOL. Did you guys go to school
So why make this thread if you were just going to ridicule all our responses?
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Chinese and Indians are to be decimated [look up the meaning].
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Originally Posted By Hadtodoit⏩
Jesus christ, combined IQ of about 40 with all these replies lol.

Does anyone have any ACTUAL information that's worth reading?

and lol @ "hundreds of thousands die every day because of famine" LOL. Did you guys go to school
Any practical solution to the problem is going to be considered "inhumane." I suggest you watch Dr. Albert Bartlett's video here if you want a good discussion of the point.



Go to 16:18. Here he is talking about increasing population in the US, but you can extrapolate much of this to the world. Barring some serendipitous breakthrough in technology that further improves the carrying capacity of the earth, we are a train wreck in not so slow motion, and any action taken to reduce population will inevitably infringe upon basic human rights or things we aim for and consider "good".

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Originally Posted By IronRooster2⏩
In most 1st world countries they have a negative growth rate of the population. When you have XBox and birth control and no need to generate kids as a form of income/retirement planning, it kind of weeds itself out.
This seems to be the most intelligent response ITT


Basically, it could be possible that in 20-30-40 years, most third world countries become developed, educated and advanced, therefore most of the worlds birth rate begins to decline and match the birth rate of western countries.
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The only way is put people on Mars / being able to live in space...the earth isn't going to last forever so putting man in space is the best option..trump already ahead on this by giving Nasa the go to put people on the Mars, which is the first step
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Historically, communists always talked about the dangers of overpopulation before they started rounding up political dissidents by the millions and slaughtering them.
As usual, communists in America are talking about the dangers of overpopuation but the dissidents here have guns.
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Originally Posted By 5percentnatty⏩
So why make this thread if you were just going to ridicule all our responses?
I shouldn't have called out all the posts like that lol, it's not that that they were dumb (well some were) it's just that they aren't educated responses.

As in, it was just a complete guess.

"We're all going to be savages and fight it out" is that a researched response? Or just a guess. I'm just hoping for researched responses if that makes sense. My bad lol.
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great depression coming boyo

many will die
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