holy crap.

I AM ME · Post by **I AM ME** » 10/19/2005, 2:07 pm

yeah i'll leave it at what i said aswell, this isn't the right thread.

Obviously i've been enjoying my Soc. and World Religion classes. I think i might major/minor in sociology and minor/major in psychology.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 10/19/2005, 2:11 pm

It's a tremendously tough issue to tackle.

The human population, at its current rate of reproduction (an average of something like 3 children per pair of parents) will double in size by around 2050, within our lifetimes. 12 billion people on Earth. Food, energy, work, shelter, every single one of these people is going to need these things, and with such high affluence in developed countries being mimicked and demanded by developing countries, the strain on resources is going to grow both by population and by individual. More people demanding more for themselves. :\

And who's to say that they can't demand such things? How can we morally tell people not to have the family they desire? This is a well nigh-impossible task in our own culture - trying to do so across cultural boundaries is even harder. :no:

Overpopulation has consumed me for about nine months now, but I can't honestly see any enforcable solution. It's deeply distressing. :freak:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/19/2005, 2:23 pm

Awww. I'll render you sterile, if you want!
*scissors*

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 10/19/2005, 2:43 pm

You're a sweetheart. :love:

I AM ME · Post by **I AM ME** » 10/19/2005, 3:35 pm

Hopfully once other countries begin to cath up to us economically they will also adopt our ideas of smaller families. Not that this will solve the problem, but it will slow down the effects. Plus in some countries such as China, because of the family limit laws, there are many more men in China then women, which should again, limit births.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/19/2005, 3:44 pm

joe_canadian wrote:You're a sweetheart.

I'm just doing my bit for humanity :sugar:

Is the beginning of november good for you?
0:)

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 10/19/2005, 5:11 pm

The probability of having large families decreases drastically and in clear correlation with education. Decreasing general ignorance specifically in the area of global development would have a decided impact on the issue. There is no 100% fix, but I think this is the best possible thing that can be done.

I disagree with that. If you look it up, Utah has the highest youth rate in the United States. It also has one of the highest higher levels of education rates.

Post by **faninor** » 10/19/2005, 5:46 pm

I'd say, in general, that quote is probably accurate. Education isn't the only factor, though. Utah would be an exception.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 10/19/2005, 8:25 pm

They're just super fucking horny and they're so religious that they get pregnant so that they can have sex.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/19/2005, 8:40 pm

every time i see this thread i hear "holy crap, ghandi. forget about prom."

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 10/19/2005, 9:00 pm

happening fish wrote:every time i see this thread i hear "holy crap, ghandi. forget about prom."

? Is this from a movie or something?

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 10/19/2005, 11:15 pm

it's quite a phenomenon how wealthy countries populations are actually leveling off, and yet poorer countries are rapidly increasing.

what i see happeneing eventually is that the labor pool in the states and other rich countries will shrink dramatically and will force companies to go to the poorer countries and pay better for services rendered. that and of course a great migration to the rich countries to fill voids in the labor market.

this is a reason why i see the southern migration into this country as a good thing.

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 10/20/2005, 1:51 am

pit_girl1 wrote:
happening fish wrote:every time i see this thread i hear "holy crap, ghandi. forget about prom."

? Is this from a movie or something?

i think its from a show

Clone High

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/20/2005, 11:47 am

Yeah, Catherine the Great catches Ghandi removing a number of socks from the crotch of his pants and dumps him :lol:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/20/2005, 11:53 am

No dry porkin' for you.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/20/2005, 11:54 am

The dryest love of all... abstinence.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/20/2005, 11:59 am

My eight inch Abe wants to talk to you.

He's in my pants.

Come on everybody, let's go out behind this building and I'll show him to you.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 10/20/2005, 4:42 pm

nobody's gonna come up with some super-fix for overpopulation. We'll just keep going until there's another plague or we nuke the hell out of each other. Should be interesting.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 10/20/2005, 6:55 pm

It'll take less than six months for our current population to replace those lost in all the wars, plagues, famines, and disasters that occurred in the last century. :\

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 10/20/2005, 7:04 pm

yeah, but they'll get BIGGER

or the world will just end.

one of the two...