Over population and your personal responsibility.

I'll put it bluntly. The planet has a finite surface area. Food production uses land, and therefore it cannot increase indefinitely. Even if you refuse to see that we are overpopulated now, if we continue to increase the size of our population, we will eventually reach a crisis in which we can't increase our food production fast enough. Why not curtail population growth now, before we reach that point? Why forego the ounce of prevention in favour of the pound of cure?

And how exactly do you suggest we stop the increasing population?

And how exactly do you suggest we stop the increasing population?

Various ways: better education surrounding the topic of overpopulation, better availability of contraceptives, and perhaps some sort of government encouragement of families with two children or fewer. (Policies that strictly limit the number of children families can have generally don't seem to work well.)

A good first step would be convincing people like Rakas that there is in fact a crisis here, and that having 3+ children is doing society a disservice.

And how exactly do you suggest we stop the increasing population?

Tell the many millions of air heads that the gene pool REALLY doesn't need their genetics.

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Multiple factors. Whereas the rest of the world has developed over the past 40 years, Africa has gone backwards with the help of the IMF.

We could stop subsidizing births and helping Africans with food and medicines.

Tell them or make them?

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Enforcing population controls on yourselves or others cannot be the answer. The fact is that in developing countries where there is no social security, people are compelled to have many kids (in many cases they try for a son after many daughters) so as to have financial and shelter security in their old age. You cannot bring down birth rates until there is faster international development via the creation of more equitable international economic institutions. The IMF, the World Bank or WTO are dogmatically free-trade and their structural adjustments have already wreaked havoc on the infant industries of developing economies.

EDIT: I plan to have no kids. Cant stand the blasted things.

I agree with you, but, they are NOT blasted things. They are actually really cool, fun and loveable people....quite frankly, they are a lot more intelligent than a vast majority of adults.

I prefer other animals over humans but cute children (the behaved ones) are some of the very few humans I can stand

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I'll put it bluntly. The planet has a finite surface area. Food production uses land, and therefore it cannot increase indefinitely. Even if you refuse to see that we are overpopulated now, if we continue to increase the size of our population, we will eventually reach a crisis in which we can't increase our food production fast enough. Why not curtail population growth now, before we reach that point? Why forego the ounce of prevention in favour of the pound of cure?

I agree with you, but, they are NOT blasted things. They are actually really cool, fun and loveable people....quite frankly, they are a lot more intelligent than a vast majority of adults.

Responsibility of people in developed countries is to reproduce more as there is either no net increase in their countries or even a population decline.

I'll put it bluntly. The planet has a finite surface area. Food production uses land, and therefore it cannot increase indefinitely. Even if you refuse to see that we are overpopulated now, if we continue to increase the size of our population, we will eventually reach a crisis in which we can't increase our food production fast enough. Why not curtail population growth now, before we reach that point? Why forego the ounce of prevention in favour of the pound of cure?

Not true at all. Africa has developed enourmously over the past 50 years. Vaccinations rates, women in education, and economic development have improved hugely, child mortality and fertility are down.