ariesl

Winter's Coming for the Boomers: Part 2

Isn't the real problem overpopulation? I believe it is. Unfortunately, even though it's a problem that should be simple to solve, we probably won't. That's because of most of the world's peoples beliefs in religion and/or cultural traditions. I fear we probably are doomed to see starvation and disease do the job of controling the Earth's swelling population. The attendant suffering of that outcome is a far greater sin than birth control or even abortion (though I'm no fan of the latter personally).

If you look closely at China's success over the last 15 years you will see that it happened after the Government implemented their draconian but effective population control laws. It's too bad it can only be done in a totalitarian country because the results are spectacular. Compare the Chinese people's lives today with the 1980's when hundreds of millions were starving and there was no wealth or even a middle class. Compare their lives today with the people of Africa, the Middle East, or large parts of South America.

It is quite easy to have great faith in God (your choice) and still understand that we individually decide whether to have children or not.

No matter what your political leanings are, it's obvious that with a billion or two fewer people on the planet, peak oil, global warming, climate change, large scale extinctions of species, wars and starvation in the third world would be way smaller, or even nonexistant, problems!