No, just the less affluent have mandatory sterlization. Same thing, and with socilaized medicine it's easy...
A lot of us have forgotten the "Be fruitful" part, but that in no way means we have any right to pick and choose who lives, who dies, and who ever gets the chance to do either. The ironic thing about this whole limiting overpopulation argument...just like Reagan said back in the 80's while addressing the abortion issue...everyone that's for it is already here! lol!
I called BS the first day of class and never paid much attention after that. Studied just enough to pass the class. Which was very little when you consider that EVERY STUDENT had to pass the class to graduate. They couldn't make it too hard.....
The irony I felt, was that it (reading the stuff above) was like I was reading propaganda from someone to the left of Bernie Sanders. "The elites are coming, the elites are coming. They have everything. That's not fair. They are going to decimate us and play us for fools..." (In no location does it say that, I'm using that to describe what it sounds like to me)
That all said, KPC seems to have watched the vid, and assuming what he notes is correct, then that would be a very clear example of why NON-MSM "information" sources are the genesis of FakeNews in many cases.
That all said, I'm all for the increased use of birth control and education about or assistance with the use of contraception. Makes sense on every applied level I can see. Not so much from the sense of managing population control, but of maximizing allocation of things like - jobs, food, education, transportation in the years to come.
The graph sources is BBC.
Lots of space out there and when push comes to shove, nobody will care about whether or not a grizzly bear or wolf becomes extinct...
Carrying capacity is more than just the amount of land or space. I agree there is a lot of land that could be occupied but that's not carrying capacity. If there were too many people we could just limit everyone to 4 sq ft of land but that doesn't mean you can live in 4 sq. ft. If one runs this overpopulation thing out it's not inconceivable that the suffering will be neighbors fighting over resources. Man, that wouldn't be happy times...back to cave men.
To reproduce is among the most basic, and strongest instincts of every animal, including humans. Sterilization at birth will never fly (nor should it), and "birth control" doesn't appear to be making much of a dent in the continued increase in population.
The planet may reach it's max capacity to support life, and if so the population will suffer as a result. Population becomes weak and unhealthy, and a plague of some sort follows killing off a huge percentage of the population. Mother Nature can be cruel, but she is also efficient.
Then, the planet will heal and it all begins again...
Convincing teenager boys to stop...well, doing what they do. I'm not sure on that one. I just threatened them in my gun room when they came to pick the daughter up for a date. She is 22 now and there was no teenage pregnancy at my house...success...I like to tell myself that.
As wealth increases in developing countries, families will have fewer kids like most European nation's, Japan etc.
Fertility rates I thought are also on the decline.
Thomas Malthus was wrong IMHO, food supplies outstripped the rate of population growth. JMHO, I don't think this will be a problem.
Carrying capacity also relates to a natural ecosystem. Our species, through technological advancement, has skewed that into a new reality - we can curb the effects of some natural disasters as we are not hunter/gatherers anymore.
At the end of the day it boils down to what you believe, science and man or an omnipotent being. If the later, then that plan will play out regardless. If the former, we'll mass erradicate ourselves anyway before it gets out of hand and reset the game to "ready player 1". In the meantime - pop a top, it's quitting time!
As a Christian and a member of a 11 child family I firmly believe in going forth and populating the world with good people. I didnt get my chance til later in life but no doubt my two kids will grow to be great adults. They already have achieved a lot.
With all the evil forces at work here on earth; in heaven and hell why not fill earth with as many good people as it will handle?? Good peepstake care of their home, develop means to make it a better place. The advances in food production, disease prevention have been astronomical since 1 AD, just counting people with no reference to their value is useless. The predictions from the 60s (Ehrlich) were wrong. Allowing women to have as many babies as they wanted, he said, is akin to letting everyone “throw as much of their garbage into their neighbor’s backyard as they want.” Yeah great way to insult my folks Ehrlich. Mom is till alive nearing 95 with over 195 direct descendants, none in jail, all living productive self-supporting lives, many in the medical industry, some farmers, geologist, judge, attorney, safety directors, actuary, welder, plumber electrician, dentist, vet you know typical low lifes from big familes...
As a hunter and fisherman I have seen much better hunting now than I did as a teenage growing up. Just look at the successes of the American model of conservation, turkeys, wooducks, cranes,swans,eagles, antelope, deer, deer did I say deer have all come back. Fires no longer burn on the Ohio river, cars run cleaner fuel than ever, solar, wind, water power as well as clean NG is all over the US (now one of the biggest exporters). I have worked with folks of just about every race ,creed religion and orientation, many get along just great.
Kenneth Watt ,Barry Commoner, Peter Gunder, George Wald, predictions were proven to be very wrong. Same thing for Al Gore more recently
So stop it with the doomsday crap, its time for the enlightenment and celebrating humans achievements. Yeah more work to do but I have every faith we will get there once those profiting from the doomsday news are called out and removed from any positions of power.
And thus we see the very fabric of why society has degenerated into the pit of slime it has become. The very erosion of the family unit...
Same can be said about the fish consumption advisories. Yep grind up the whole fish including the parts people don't eat and you find some contaminants. Don't even get me started on the poor evidence surrounding lead in venison, also a reproductive issue. Higher lead levels in general population than the study candidates, plus no ZPP (the measure of lead metabolization in the body, demonstrating a possible risk). So they threw out all the donated venison, keeping starving folks away from precious protein, including meat donated by archers since they weren't tracking how it was harvested..
That's science put to miss use...government based health care.
I have never heard of lead in venison. Where is it supposedly coming from? The deer drinking water from Lake Erie? LOL.
Bucks and bulls just follow along.
There, see, we agree! Only I said "nature" rather than disease, but you catch my drift.
And for the record, us humans will be fighting over water WAY BEFORE the fight for land space ever becomes a major issue...so maybe we should be more concerned with that subject. No viable water, no life..
