Over population and your personal responsibility.

No, The earth is overpopulated! THERE ARE TOO MANY HUMANS.

In theory, I think a two-child policy would be beneficial, but I'm not sure about the idea that Earth is, or is becoming, overpopulated in terms of the amount of land or resources available. Increasing the number of people in the world may be bad for other reasons, which I'll explain below.

At the moment, I have no plans to have children. I don't believe that there's an ethical obligation to have children (unlike some moral philosophers, who believe that increasing the number of happy people in the world is obligatory), and doing so would increase my impact on the environment, which would negatively affect both human and nonhuman animals, and there's also a chance that my child may wish to eat animal products at some point, which, again, would increase the amount of suffering in the world.

The Earth itself is not overpopulated and indeed with a global birth rate of 2.6 (i think), output of key resources like food actually increases faster than the population globally. If you look at fertility rates by region then actually only Africa has a fertility rate above 3.

The problem in todays world is not production but rather the distribution of land and capital.

So in answer to your question, i'll be having 3 children.

Then why don't we use space efficiently?

How dare you, I'm an Arts graduate.

Well I chose to be gay, so I've done my part.

How is it possible that a birthrate of greater than 2 could be indefinitely sustainable? Food production can't increase indefinitely, and it's basic common sense that housing can't increase indefinitely.

How did you work that out?

Because people eat animals.

Well, there's your problem.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I study demographics.

I've been lucky enough to meet lots of kids so I know how ****ty they are. That's my bit. Maybe one day other's will realise it too!

Preach that to the third-world countries, as they're the ones mostly responsible for increasing population.

No, I'm being serious. I don't care what you study, I want to how you came to the conclusion.

Housing and roads ECT.. Are human constructs. Its near impossible to run out of room and therefore their number is only limited by the availability of capital to build them.

A birth rate of more than 2 is sustainable because expressed as a percentage it increases at a slower rate than the increased output of most resources.

Silly people.