we all know it's tough to overide a huge, & strong biological urge. it's built-in, by evolutionary process?
The logical means would be to infuse whatever grains, etc we export to "starving" nations with substances to at least temporarily sterilize the people that eat them. I say temporarily, because once they're able to feed themselves with locally grown stuff, then they could successfully reproduce right up to the limit the local food supply would support.
Y' know, that might not be a bad approach for inner city school lunches, too.
Tom
Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.
Religion has really helped f--- this up. Be fruitful and multiply. That directive may have made sense many years ago, but now helps create an overpopulated planet.
The verse says in total “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion” over all creation (Genesis 1:28). Note that it doesn't say that there's no end to it. Man has completed the task and the earth is full. There is no command to keep multiplying after the earth is full.
I see the only caveat to the command given to Adam and Eve is the one you added, which is found nowhere in Genesis or anywhere else in any of the half a dozen versions of the Bible I've seen. So does that mean that another version of the Bible will be dictated soon which clarifies, or are you just pulling that out of your ass, like all the other Bible-quoters?
Will you please quote the verse that says man is to keep breeding until mass starvation overwhelms the earth? God gave a command to 2 people and now there are 7 billion. Are you saying man is to just keep breeding forever?
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
let's face it, almost all, if not all adult human men & women love sex. it's so uplifting, enjoyable, etc. etc.
in the past without the guts of a goat or sheep or something similar to prevent conception, then conception could result.
time of the month for the female was also a factor. and certain "religious" practices also had an impact?
but now, with some 7.2 billion people, more or less, then do we need to approach the problem from a new direction?
we know people like sex. just look around. we see the effects of sex every day. they're walking the streets, some begging.
is there a problem with the basic design? or, can we overcome any basic design flaws with technology?
what we might have here is a failure to address some fundamental problems that might be creeping up on us?
as a societal effort should we be holding back on populating the earth as quickly as possible, or moving faster in that direction?
How well did the one child work out for China?
i think they implemented the option, voluntary or not. (there was penalities otherwise, taxes can be hell).
we all know it's tough to overide a huge, & strong biological urge. it's built-in, by evolutionary process?
Gus, you are a little behind on your current events and recent history.
One child is a disaster for China. They have an aging population and not enough people producing enough to take care of them.
They also have a shortage of women. Since the Chinese has a preference for boys, there we selectively aborting the girls, leaving a shortage of girls for the next generation.
As for penalties, if a woman became pregnant a second time, the penalty was government forced abortion and government forced sterilization.
Does that sound like a Utopian design to you?
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
Population problem? NO evidence such a problem exists.
Which planet are you on? This is absolutely nuckin' futz. Look how many people are starving in Africa, Asia, or even in our inner cities
Gus ... the end game is famine leading to wars over the scraps. Malthus predicted the end game in 1798 with his book. He was correct then, nothing has changed 'cept technological (including medical) advances pushing carrying capacity outwards. One day we will encounter or create a bug we can't stop and about 98% of the earth's population will be dead within a year or less. It's not "if", it is "when." I suspect you know that the same as I do. Whole lotta people are whistling as they pass the graveyard.
Tom
Those starving in Africa, Asia and our inner cities are a self-inflicted problem by the so-called starving people themselves. Darwin keeps trying to scrub the inferior parasites of the species from the planet and the do-gooders keep rescuing them from themselves putting further strain on the resources of the planet.
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