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Overpopulation--this is a story you never read about on TV or in the newspaper. But it's there. You can see evidence of it all around you, as well as on TV. Yet, there is nothing a politician or business leader or church leader CAN say about overpopulation which will sound good AND be meaningful.
As recounted by Grist's The Truth Everyone Knows, the US government had a public commission named the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future in 1970. A very interesting discussion is posted there.
Such as: "By avoiding a fraction of the projected population increase, the emissions savings could be significant and would be at a cost, based on UN experience of reproductive health programs, that would be as little as one-thousandth of the technological fixes. The reality is that while the footprint of each individual cannot be reduced to zero, the absence of an individual does do so."
Here, we would like to share ideas about how to reduce the human population in a humane way. We don't care whether you like the idea or not--it will come humane or not within the next 100 years.
The usual diseases which killed off humans in the past included disease, natural disasters, famine, and war. Can you think of a better fix?
If so, chime in!
Forum topic: Human overpopulation cures
Further reading:
How many people is too many? @Alternet