[Munch's Master]

havoc IS right. But unfortunately this is a case where the right thing to do is also the wrong thing- the backlash.backfire/whatever term you want for it that'd result would be immense. As it does basically inhibit human rights. But so do many other current policies being put in place for our ssupposed safety/protection/benefit of society.

Limiting childbirth would turn the world even more Orwellian than its rapidly becoming, but the population crisis does need to be tackled. There's only a handful of solutions:
1) Mass Culling/when you reach a certain age youre killed. Highly radical, not advised at all and no society would toleate a government doing this anymore.
2) Limiting number of children. Possibly the most effective, certainly the quickest fix yet 2nd most unpopular. Human rights activism would increase, potential civil unrest. It would work and could be the best solution, but the ethics of it are highly problematic.
3) As Max suggests,educating people about population control. Slow, but it would work in theory. Problem is some people wouldn't care- theyd have the attitude of-"Meh, if everyoen else limits it its ok for me to have a bunch of kids, right?". Some wouldnt care to start with/take no notice. It'd require an enforced law to go along with it-perhaps implement it to preced #2, but then you'd have the government conspiracy/slow brainwashing argument and there'd still be unrest.

4) More gay people, and allow adoption but not artificial insemination. While the "genetic child" thing is a nice thing to have there's tons of kids who need adopting, and if gay couples were adopting the population would dwindle. Problem is you'd need to prevent artificial insemination for all, so the infertile would probably claim discrimination and gay couples who wanted genetic children would cry homophobia. Also not easy to induce a mass gay movement in society.


It's not an easy solution at all, and its why, as horrible as it is to say, the human race NEEDS wars/mass plagues. As horrific and grisly and distressing as they are its a natural population control. War is skirmish now, not mass battles. And health improvements mean killer bugs like Swineflu and Birdflu kill thousands instead of millions. It's a horrible reality but these natural population culls are needed. It doesn't make them justified or right, just means the human race needs them to avoid overpopulating. And we are definitely headed for a mass overpopulation spike.