What do you guys think of the possibility of limiting how many children a mother can give birth to? In my opinion, in places like Africa and India, where there is lack of birth control, we should help focus on that. Apparently, Earth can only support about 10 ~ 20 billion people at max, and at the rate we are growing right now, it could reach that population in 2025~2030. (I have no sources for this, it's a rough estimate)
This has it's drawbacks though. You could never have a sibling, and families would be much smaller. What do you think?
AIDS is already a big issue in parts of Africa, which means if they limit their birth to just one child, their population could plummet at an alarming rate and larger parts of Africa would eventually be deserted, or settled by others. This, of course, would cause a whole new chaos in the world, in the battle for this land.
Problem isn't number of children born as much as it's the distribution of them, though. Think we're lacking kids a bit in Denmark, don't really recall where I heard it, though.
I don't know what my opinion is about actual laws about how many kids you're allowed to have. Better information and distribution of preservatives is a far less severe cut into normal people's lives that could potentially help reduce the amount of children born in densely populated areas...
... Am slightly creeped out thinking about what would be done to the potential excess kids...
It also depends on the culture. Just look at what happened to China, for example. They had this law in effect, but because of their culture favoring male children, Chinese parents often killed their female babies and kept trying for male ones. This means that there's an entire generation that can't really reproduce due to an extreme lack of mothers.
One per mother would decrease the worlds population by half in one generation...
That wouldn't be too bad...
I don't know what my opinion is about actual laws about how many kids you're allowed to have. Better information and distribution of preservatives is a far less severe cut into normal people's lives that could potentially help reduce the amount of children born in densely populated areas...
It's a shame that humankind is too selfish to actually enroll these kind of things...if we weren't, this would've been done years ago.
If the whole world did it, it wouldn't be good at all, for obvious reasons. If only certain countries did it, it still wouldn't work because people would just move to other countries that didn't have birth laws. Eventually it would just lead to legal chaos.
It would for (probably) the economy, the elderly, everything that relies on a steadily replenishing source of young people.
Seeing the world's population halved might not be too negative, but if it happened in just the time of one or even two generations it'd probably have some negative consequences.
It's a shame that humankind is too selfish to actually enroll these kind of things...if we weren't, this would've been done years ago.
The limit on kids or the proper implementation of decent sex ed?
-sigh- I don't think the UK will get better sex-ed any time soon. There were plans to lower the age that a school teaches sex-ed but a massive outcry snuffed that out. The reason for the outcry? sex-ed from a younger age would 'sexualize' children.
Overpopulation is quite possible - you reach a point where there isn't enough food or supplies to keep people healthy but still keep them alive and Voila! overpopulation.
- Lack of breathable air due to trees being cut down and too much carbon dioxide - Flooding because of melting glaciers due to global warming - Lack of food - Lack of fresh water - An apocalypse (Possibly 2012, although most likely not...there's also asteroids and comets and stuff)
