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1590679 No.1590679 [Reply] [Original]

"If we don't halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity--and will leave a ravaged world."

What do you think, /sci/?

>> No.1590686

I think that choosing who and who cannot have children will lead to riots.

Also Eugenics will never work.

>> No.1590690

Population growth is presently slowing in most developed countries. It seems that the best solution would be modernization. I mean, who's going to have fifteen kids if they don't really need 'em?

>> No.1590699

>>1590690

>> Implying people only have kids cos they need them

Honestly, I know pakistani families who have fucking 13 kids. I live in the UK.

>> No.1590700

>>1590686
>I think that choosing who and who cannot have children will lead to riots.

There doesn't have to be a person dictating who reproduces and who doesn't, it could go the way of a conscious decision of the population to cut down on birthing their own children and start adopting the children of others more often.

>> No.1590704

Access to health and education seems to work.

>> No.1590705

industrialization kills population growth

we're going to stabilize at around 9 billion people on this planet, OP. Go look up some projections.

>> No.1590707

>>1590700

>>conscious decision of the population

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>> No.1590710

>>1590690
lol wtf.

>> No.1590718

i think we should do, as 1 human race, for 10 years anyone can have babies, same laws as today. then, for the next 10 years no babies. and so on....

i have no reasons or rationale to present

>> No.1590744

>>1590707
I like to speculate!

And of course by "conscious decision" I meant "bleary-eyed unconscious mass-movement fraught with chaos and lemming mentality, fueled by propaganda and confusion, moving at an incalculably slow and irregular rate, eventually resulting in a cultural change of some sort that everyone seems real proud of." Not sure how else to re-phrase it but I think you get what I mean. Kind of like the green movement.

>> No.1590763

Nature will do whatever the fuck it wants, regardless of what we do

>> No.1590768

>>1590763

>> Implying humans aren't a part of nature

>> No.1590774

With modernization of the world it'll top out at around 9 billion.

Don't you read any books?

>> No.1590786

>>1590774
Who the fuck reads books when the internet is clearly superior?

>> No.1590805

>>1590774
I just thought /sci/ would have an interesting discussion about the quote in OP post. I read tons of books.