Are there any morally right ways to slow "overpopulation"?

[Puppies04]

I can only comment on Britain as I feel I have no right to discuss others countries policies but immediately stopping all forms of child benefit (including the proportion of tax raised to pay for them) would be a good start. There are far too many under educated and lazy families in this country that feel that it is the rest of society who should pay for their lack of responsibility.

My wife and I are holding off on having kids for a few more years until we are financially stable enough to give that child the best upbringing possible and I fail to see why it should be any different for anyone else.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Skipped the borring pages so you guys could read my amazing post a little sooner. Depopulation won't happen unless nature does it with disease or some other method, so get over it. We need to develop new technologies to cope with having more people. BOOM TRUTH.

So it alright that some people thinks its OK have their own little soccer team and dumps the responsibility of raising them to the society because they are terrible parents?

 

[Arkaign]

I think China and India are also working on Thorium reactors.

Yep, amazing stuff, and we have tons and tons and tons and tons of it. What's really special about the Thorium cycle reactor is that after a cycle, nearly all of the material can be re-used. Hence if a fuel cycle takes 100 "units" (arbitrary stand-in there), and you have a 20,000 unit supply on site, after a cycle (let's say 8 weeks), you can recycle 97 units from the initial cycle, meaning the subsequent refueling actually only takes you 3 additional units. That's a gross oversimplification, but the basics are correct.

If only people weren't so scared of nuclear power. Of course a nuclear-dominated energy economy would still require a good bit of oil for plastics and various other components and processes that can't be readily substituted, but at least we wouldn't be wasting so much of it just burning it into thin air. We can recycle a plastic jug, but we can't recycle gasoline after it's been burned. And on the flip side of that, we'd need to simultanoeously manufacture billions of additional batteries and electric motors to replace gasoline and diesel equipment globally, establish superior battery recycling technology infrastructure, and so on and so forth. Not easy, but better than .. well, oil's gone, let's just give up, roll over, and go back to the caves.

 

[bononos]

Go study Australia.
Don't know what they are teaching people over there but they aren't willing to have kids.
They have less than ~23 millions people.
Less than Texas, more than Florida.
Seeing at how the minorities are growing fast in Florida, it will probably bypass Australia in a few years.

If you are thinking that Australia is such a huge continent that could support >100 million then you are wrong, it is a dry place and it is already slightly overpopulated relative to its natural resources.

 

[rayfieldclement]

I been thinking about this and by 2050 the Earth will most likely be depleted of most of its natural resources.

Oil will probably be hoarded and etc.,

Are there any morally plausible ways to even attempt to stop overpopulation?

What I mean is that no mass killing or purposely spreading enhanced viruses around the globe.

Encourage people not to have sex.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Encourage people not to have sex.

That's like curing a heroin addict by only telling him not buy or steal more dope. Ain't going to happen.

 

[sdifox]

just get rid of the religious groups that are against contraceptives. Or better yet, just revoke their tax free status.

 

[Malfeas]

As the population increases, it will reach a point where all forms of population control are morally acceptable.

 

[Sonikku]

Register with the Democrat party: You get sterilized

There you go. Half the population no longer breeds and only the good half survives. Social Security/Medicare/foodstamp freebies also take a nose dive in spending.

I've solved like 95% of the worlds problems in one stroke. YOU'RE WELCOME.

 

[amish]

nobody liked my Ender's Game reference...

 

[Hugo Drax]

I'm sure that'll work. Poor people never have children when they are already poor. India? What's that? Did you mean to say Indiana?

You are comparing two different countries, two different environments.

I would even go one step further. A Tax credit if you show the use of implanted birth control. Lets say 250 dollar stipend a month. with proof of birth control management.