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"The fundamental driving force for humanity is the genital friction that
produces more people. We are plague mammals, and plague mammals multiply
fantastically until just before the last generation." - Lynn Margulis
 

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Mother Nature will take care of it soon enough.


She always has and she always will. It will not be pretty though.





dont mind
if Father Time gets off his arse, and makes a decision sooner than later then ..
 

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It's increasing exponentially, but so is the cost of living due to limited resources. The more expensive raising a child becomes, the less likely people will choose to have a child... so it seems. Like SilverTrain, Fuzzy thinks that it will take care of itself.
 

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Do people in underdeveloped countries have children in the hope that a greater brood might help support them, in the near term or long term? Is having many offspring a status symbol somewhere? Or is it just: sex feels great and whoops! there's another one. I agree with Fuzzy's comment that cost contains proliferation, particularly in those cultures where the parents are concerned about giving their children material goods and opportunities as opposed to the reverse.

It's interesting that overpopulation was on everyone's lips and all over the media in the 1960's and one seldom hears about it anymore.
 
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And global warming was on everyone's lips before the financial collapse however it's existence is real and the consequences are building every year.
 

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about population control. It's been increasing for years...

understatement of the day !

how would you go about controlling it.

I wouldn't dream of trying to control it.
I think nature will take it's course, regardless of our intervention(s).

Those who are controlling it, or trying to control it are the ones that worry me but...

> It's those lurking under the radar, meglamaniac / power-mad and greedy people in positions of power, and scientists (with good intentions) involved in genetic engineering we have to watch out for, but in the latter group - theres nothing much we can do, except hope that someone with common sense and integrity blows the whistle on dangerous experiments before it really is too late.
 

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The thing is that food production has been growing faster than the population. There are in fact over a billion overweight people and 800 million under nourished.

So the questions have to address threats to our ability to feed ourselves and to address the existing inequalities.
 

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Mother Nature will take care of it soon enough.

She always has and she always will. It will not be pretty though.


Very true, I just hope whatever happens, happens before it becomes a real problem with real consequences and sadly we are right at the precipice of that situation.

So what do we think will be the great planetary leveler?

Will it be Climate related or it will be a pandemic? I think it will be the latter, we have had several narrow escapes in the past decade, our luck is bound to run out soon enough, even with the advancements made by the CDC!


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