Is it normal that i feel something should be done about over population

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Is it normal that I think that there should be international conventions against people having more than one child?
With this planet quickly running out of clean air and water and soon will not be able to produce enough food to feed everybody, isn't about time to curb the number of children a couple is allowed to have, since few seem to be able to do it voluntarily?
If a couple is allowed to have 1 child, the population will decrease until it reaches a sustainable level without hundreds of thousands (millions?) having to die horribly to reach the same goal.
It amazes me that only one country on this planet has taken any steps in this direction.
One would think that human beings were smarter than animals, which, with no natural enemies, will overpopulate an area until they are killed back to normal levels by disease or starvation. I guess not.

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  • hairyfairy
    10 years ago

    It would`nt be so bad if it was the healthy, intelligent people that were breeding, but no, it`s the stupid & unhealthy that are cluttering up the planet with their diseased offspring, & bankrupting the health services of the civilised world. We need to get back to Darwin`s law of survival of the fittest, otherwise who knows what the human race will be reduced to in a coulple of centuries.

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    • RomeoDeMontague
      10 years ago

      This is sadly true. Idiots fuck all the time and don't care to think or stop about what their actions do to others, the government and the world. An intelligent person would wait till they have a substantial home and income to bring kids into this world. Not some stupid fucking 16 year old that is not even out of school yet.

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  • oogliebooglie
    10 years ago

    Everybody here needs to watch Gattaca because it is totally relevant to this conversation and to what science is doing today.

    Anyway, I believe education (esp. for woman) and innovation in science (re. renewable energy) is the answer, not restrictive policies.

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  • Lost_In_A_Cubicle
    10 years ago

    It's SICKENING how people reproduce without thinking it through first. Something NEEDS to be done in the developing countries and for the poor in developed countries. I feel bad but it should be illegal to have more than 3 kids. India?? Why are you multiplying so freaking much?

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    I think we should just start killing the fucking dicks in prison with 4-6 rape/peadophile and kidnap charges. Who people amazingly think we should leave in the world. That or just let the morons sacrifice themselves to these people to keep the monsters appeased. Like those women who say "I know who murdered all his ex girlfriends but I want to be with him". Like fucking really? No fucking common sense left in this world. For fuck sake. That do not listen when you tell them "That sounds like a bad idea". Than shows up a week later dead and you wonder "Gee who could have done it"? I think only people of a certien income should be allowed to reproduce. The issue is enforcing these types of laws though.

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  • robbieforgotpw
    10 years ago

    Get out of here eugenecists

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  • codeine
    10 years ago

    its normal but nearly impossible...think about it, people are living longer than ever before, human rights are improving, and its basic human nature to want more...its pretty much too late for that

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  • Im-A-Beast
    10 years ago

    The world will one day be over populated, and when that happens, I hope that they do something like that. With majority of America's family's having one or two children, why can't every family. I hate when I see a family with 4+ children, just because they want kids. But I bet its pretty hard to support all those children with the economy today.

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    • thegypsysailor
      10 years ago

      Just exactly what world do you live in? The world I live in is already overcrowded. Just yesterday I read (yes, I can read things other than IIN) that Europe's forests were at saturation level for CO2. In case you don't know it, trees absorb CO2 and expel O2; oxygen. You know, that stuff we need to breathe.
      There is not enough food produced today to adequately feed the present world population and much of even the USA does not have potable water from the tap any more, let alone most of the rest of the world.
      If we don't change our ways soon, very soon, this planet will not be habitable for humans, which is perhaps a good thing, as we are surely destroying it as fast as we can.

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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    Yes, because absolutely no-one has died as a result of China's one-child policy...

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    • oogliebooglie
      10 years ago

      I feels the sarcasm.

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    • charli.m
      10 years ago

      And it totally hasn't set them up for disaster with an aging population and no one to care for said population...

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      • NotStrangeBird
        10 years ago

        Don't forget it's a nation of only children too.

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