Our population grows beyond the capablility to sustain itself.

The cause of this global crisis, climate change and our own ignorance has led us to the point that there are 7 billion people on this planet, but not enough money or resources to sustain them all. Not to forget that most of the people still use things that break down the environment around us, even with all the alternate solutions. Our population grows too big. THAT is the cause of this global crisis, as well as the climate change happening. Ironically, this is what killed off ancient civilizations as the Aztecs, the Mayans and the Romans. Since I was painfully made aware of this matter, I am almost rejoiced with knowing someone died. It was for the well-fare of our civilazation. This isnt just a sad excuse to kill people, but to prove that we are capable of doing what must be done, regardless of the situation.

I can think of three things to do:

1. (quite extreme) Extermination, or World War III. This will not only reduce our numbers, but also makes people think of what they are doing, how they got into this mess. Too much people just live their lives in ignorance and selfishness.
2. (also quite radical) Sterilization. This will prohibit us from further overpopulating the world.
3. Nothing. This is the most easiest solution, as it involves doing nothing, proving anyone who chooses this too lazy and ignorant to let live.

Options that are out of the question:
4. Space/Sea Colonization. We neither have the technology, nor the intelligence to do this. Besides, moving the problem doesnt solve it.

I doubt that this post will save us, but at least I have made people think about this matter.

Option 1. Extermination, or World War III. 2
Option 2 Sterilization. 9
Option 3 Nothing. 12
Option 4 Space/Sea Colonization 9
Option 5 (Combination of aforementioned options) 8
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Comments ( 20 )
  • LyeByMistake

    Technically there is enough to sustain us, for quite a bit too.

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    • Treehugger29

      We continue to stuff the planet with our waste, and our numbers just keep increasing. People say: "Things are so expensive these days." That is because we cannot cope with the amount of growth. But, I guess this post was aimed to deaf ears. It happens too slow to be noticed for most of you.

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      • Tommythecat.

        You tard.

        Things are expensive because the corporate elite are fucking our economy by removing all the money and stuffing it into their bank accounts, thus removing it from circulation.

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      • LyeByMistake

        Clueless.

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    • GreyWulfen

      Let's just see what happens if we run out of fossil fuels in a few decades.

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  • robbieforgotpw

    Go away u eugenics pusher. Maybe u and your family should be the first to be eliminated

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  • ilovetoiletrolls

    Well all the options are psychotic so I choose "do nothing".

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  • Holzman_67

    Your Title Grows Beyond The Capability To Capitalize Itself.

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  • Parky_Parker

    I don't want kids. So in a way, I'm already helping out.

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  • CountessDouche

    I'm voting nothing since we're long overdue for a pandemic

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  • Your posts are hilarious.

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    • Treehugger29

      Said the ignorant mind.

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  • Crvsades

    1 child policy is probably the most efficient and at the same time the most humane measure. 2 people making 1 child, that means in 30 to 40 years the population will decrease at least 40%, not to mention there's a lot of people who don't want children at all.

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  • howlsilver

    Finally, someone who cares. Ive been thinking of that too. Im a nature lover and hate the ignorance of destroyers. People and nature must have give and take relationship but its not whats happening. They are happy to accept what nature gives to them but angry in returning the favor. If the cycle stops and insufficient to sustain, the destruction will continue. Conflict will occur. The majority will only understand and realize the importance of something if they loose it.

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  • GreyWulfen

    I think we should globally regulate the number of children someone can have and have stricter laws, i.e. you must be financially stable before getting a child.
    What bothers me is just that today, you need a license to drive a car, but every fucking one can have a child without any limitations.

    We should definitely do something against overpopulation - otherwise, nature will do something about it, and it surely won't be a 'humane' solution.

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  • Jaydods39

    We need to hurry to live on other planets...and also a one child policy is great

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  • RegGuy

    All these people who are concerned about overpopulation all seem to be extremely helpful in suggesting what happens to other people. If you want to save the world from overpopulation, go jump off a cliff. It will be more productive in the long run.

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  • KeepsakeDoll

    I remember reading a short story where winning the lottery gives the person permission to have children.

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    • shuggy-chan

      that is a theme in alot of post-apocalyptic society stories. and there is something close to that in china, with the one child law they had

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  • Incomplet

    Pretty sure there are stats somewhere on the web that show that post-war periods actually have shockingly high natality rates and that wars can sometimes result in the increase in a population beyond predicted results (given a few decades time). I think this was the case for Russia post WW2 or something, but don't quote me on that, I haven't studied history for years.

    Sterilisation is ridiculously difficult to enforce. Who will be sterilised? How will you force/encourage people to give up reproductive capabilities? I guess a restriction on the maximum number of children is plausible, but what would happen if someone breaks that law? What happens to the kid? What if one woman is pregnant with multiple foetuses? A restriction on children could also result in high taxes for the later generation, who have to pay pensions for the large numbers of elderly.

    Doing nothing will result economic strain for a possibly indefinite period of time. The poorest people will die first, resources get so scarce that people of the "working class" will die and it'll only leave the richest of the rich. But they'll eventually die out because there are so few of them and there's no way they could establish economies of scale fast enough given their usual professions (bankers, CEOs etc). These guys could buy their way through centuries, but eventually they'll have to do something with their hands.

    Honestly, I think random sterilisation at birth might be what would happen in the future. Actually. It probably won't be random, people are going to try and buy their children's fertility before they exit the womb. The government might enforce something like "every 4th pregnancy will have a forcibly sterilised child". Number is prone to variation and this concept won't exist in labour-intensive economies.

    Adoption agencies are going to be overrun and children will probably be sold, and randomly sterilised people will have higher suicide rates than the non-sterilised.

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