What would you do to end overpopulation?

Let's say you're in charge of the entire planet and overpopulation is a bigger problem than ever. What would you do to end it?

I would..(Comment below) 9
Nothing. It's too late to fix it anyway. 7
I don't believe in that. 14
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  • You'd only be able to do it by taking away freedoms. If that was needed then I'd make it so that you can only have one child. Not everybody wants children or has them so that would reduce the population atleast a bit.

    Or I would make it so that only certain people were allowed to have children. If you have a criminal record then you can't have children, so thieves, murderers, rapists, drug abusers, and so on can't have children. Those that can have children must be evaluated on if they're capable or not.

    If people have children that aren't allowed to then they are given prison time, lengthy prison time, same goes if you have more than one child except for the cases in which you are carrying another child for another person who is allowed to have children but can't due to medical issues.

    Essentially you'd have to take away freedoms for any method to work for definite.

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    • Mytwin295

      I like your plan so far but what if one person was having twins?

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      • Hmm. I would suppose it would be fair to let the people keep their children without punishment as it was out of their control if they had twins.

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        • Mytwin295

          fair enough.

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  • westoptic

    Voluntary sterilization programs. Free birth control and condoms to everyone. Actual sex education for children (none of this watered down, bullshit abstinence only crap)

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  • Tommythecat.

    Nothing, I love the idea of the world becoming so full it goes nanners...

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  • Ellenna

    Educate the women in underprivileged countries, including but not restricted to contraception: statistically it's been proved that educated women have less children

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  • I have had a very good idea for years that does not involve killing people.

    Sterilize people. Start with sex offenders and child abusers, they shouldnt have kids anyways.
    Also sterilize people who previously drank or did drugs while pregnant, since they should also not have more kids.

    I would then give a $5000 reward to anyone who volunteers to be sterilized. This may seem like a lot, but it will save signifant money in the long run. All the crackheads and welfare moms will want that money.

    Killing people to fix overpopulation is unacceptable though.

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    • anti-hero

      A welfare mom is going to take a one time lump sum of $5k? No way, she can milk a lot more out of the system than that.

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      • Freedom_

        If they want their drugs bad enough they'd do it.

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        • anti-hero

          A real welfare queen only smokes weed, cigarettes and drinks liquor.

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  • Fall_leaves

    Our planet has it's own form of population control.

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    • Ellenna

      Which is?

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      • OtherSide

        Zombies. Just before the population reaches the critical mass, there will be an apocalypse.

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      • Fall_leaves

        natural disasters

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        • Ellenna

          I don't think they reduce the population by much. I think the death toll so far in Nepal is around 6000 which is terrible for Nepal but not a lot of people when you consider the total population of the earth

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  • horny_simpletons

    Kill the bitch that wrote the stalker story on here. Fucker should be shot.

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  • howaminotmyself

    Wonder why someone put me in charge. They must think I'm magic.

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  • icant_

    Kill the sluts.

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    • westoptic

      You're the ones getting them pregnant. Kill the slut fuckers!

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  • thegypsysailor

    I'd start with all the politicians, then eradicate all the racist assholes like carminepersico and suicidePOS. Soon after those miserable creatures would go the pedos, murderers, rapists and all religious fundamentalists, militant or not.
    We could continue with the very wealthy, as there is no way they got there without doing so on the sweat of others.
    Then we could take a breather and see where we are and how much we have improved things.

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    • derpyderp

      Yeah, we wouldn't want any racist assholes.
      Or any abo's (its OK, there's none around to hear us call them that so it's not racist...)

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      • thegypsysailor

        It really comes down to what's in a person's heart. I neither dislike nor support eliminating all the Abos to alleviate overpopulation. Nor is there any intent to denigrate, belittle or show malice toward the people when I use the word. It is a simple contraction of another word.
        That YOU don't like it, well truthfully, I don't give 2 shits. You obviously would prefer to rant on me and laugh with carminepersico and suicidePOS about their disgusting and immature contributions. Really, that shows what's in your heart doesn't it?

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        • charli.m

          You really can't see he's not agreeing with those trolls, he's just pointing out yourhypocrisy?

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          • thegypsysailor

            MY hypocrisy?
            Your country has set up concentration camps on Nauru and in PNG against the UN conventions and I would bet you've not stood up personally and shown YOUR displeasure with the policy.
            Let he who is without sin.....

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            • charli.m

              I'm not the one who is openly racist, princess.

              How do you know what I have and haven't done? Have I ever even openly supported those things? Oh that's right...you assume what you want...then make your witty little "ass...u...me" quip at other people.

              More hypocrisy. And straw clutching. Your attacks on Australian policy are just pathetic. I'm the one you have a problem with, why do you insist on making lame attacks on something over which I have no control? Do you see me blaming you for American shit? Shall I go blame you for the war in Iraq? Ask what you did personally to stop it? Oh wait...that would be fucking retarded. And I, unlike some I could mention, am not.

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        • carminepersico

          You are just a closet racist, who doesn't have the balls to say what you feel. I know plenty like you.

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          • thegypsysailor

            I don't have the balls to say what you feel? Are you shitting me? I guess along with your immoral racist comments you haven't read a single one of my posts.
            If you weren't such a pitiable example of the worst of humanity, I'd laugh.

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            • carminepersico

              Ha ha, you believe in morality? You are truly a pathetic piece of shit, who should be tortured to death.

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    • carminepersico

      The only people left would be dick sucking,liberal assholes, who couldnt defend themselves.

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      • thegypsysailor

        I've managed to do so quite effectively for 60+ years, without sucking dick or giving credence to small minded assholes like you.

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        • Ace9

          Dude, how old are you?

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          • thegypsysailor

            Well, the dinosaurs had died out before I was born, but the Romans had yet to conquer Gaul.

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  • Nokiot9

    I would do anything drastic like genocide or a controlled pathogen. But if I had my way, there'd definately be birthing restrictions in this country. There'd be an IQ or intelligence/common sense test u gotta score high enough on to qualify to have a kid. U also have to demonstrate financial stability. How the hell they'd enforce it... Idk. What do u do to someone that had a kid that wasn't supposed to? Make them get fixed? Lol yeah, pray I never become ruler of the world guys.

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  • Nokiot9

    Adopt a child. Try to get others to do the same, people are so mother fucking selfish. "I MUST PROPIGATE MMMMYYYY DNA OR MY LIFE IS A WASTE!," with the thousands of little girls born in China each year that are fed glass and pins and needles because girls can't move away and make the family money, and all the. Kids still starving all over the planet,.. You wanna bring another one in? When there are so many orphans in this world that need a mommy and daddy? That shit alone, says volumes about humans as a species.

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  • Arm0se

    Have everyone take an intelligence test and a physic evaluation. Those that pass will be tested for drastic genetic imperfections. Then they will be tested, and tested, and tested again, just to be sure.

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  • gloryholeflasher

    I would do whatever I could to eliminate the social stigma of being gay/lesbian, and encourage such relationships, at least in so far as removing all socio-economic sanctions against that lifestyle.

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  • OtherSide

    There won't be any need for the leader of the world to do anything.

    The zombie apocalypse is inevitable. It will end overpopulation for us.

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  • umph

    STOP all help / subsidies to the countries / peoples which have a high birth rate.

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  • green_boogers

    I would impose China's one child policy on Africa, India, Mexico, and the U.S.

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  • Riddler

    Going to tag this for later and come back to it when I have a good answer.

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  • zsdworknman

    Birth rates in most developed countries are down you could limit amount of children based on ability to provide for them although it sounds a bit elitist it would help. One other issue is the elderly population has skyrocketed so you could actually put an age limit or a euthanasia system in place for those with dementia or Alzheimer's to thin that group out . I love my grandparents and would never want it to come to that this is purely hypothetical.

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  • LizardSkin

    World war 3 will take care of it. Russia & China vs NATO.

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    • Ace9

      Do u think they'll make a video game out of it?

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      • LizardSkin

        Yeah, when a form of Atari comes out again once civilization has to be completely rebuilt.

        The kids will complain about the graphics. smh.

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        • Ace9

          Whimpering losers... I grew up with that stuff.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Nazca Booby rule.

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  • carminepersico

    Kill all the blacks, that would solve all the worlds problems.

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    • Ace9

      Not cool, man.

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      • carminepersico

        Why not?

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    • modernism

      I'm not even disappointed in your comment. I'm disappointed that at least two people thumbs-up'd it and agreed with you.

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