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Comrade Tovya said:

Rath said:

appolose said:
Oh my, what have I done? :)
If overcrowding really is such a problem, I think either imposing limits or even sterilization would do. That would circumvent the moral objection, for me.

 

Interestingly I am against both on moral grounds.

I think that both compulsory sterilization and legal limits on the number of children you can have violate the rights of parents. However optional (and free, or perhaps even with incentives) sterilization and incentives for having fewer children are decent ideas for controlling the population in my opinion.

 

I understand what you are saying, but let's just put this in perspective.

There isn't a food shortage in Africa because of a lack of food to feed them.  There is foot shortage because dictators steal the food that UNICEF and other humanitarian organizations deliver to them... they do it because they want to starve rival tribes.  Africa is a tribal continent (one of my close friends is the son of a leader of one of the dominant tribes, so I know a thing or two about this subject)

And even more importantly is this:

We are not running out of land or resources on planet Earth contrary to popular belief.

The state of Texas alone has 172,044,800 acres in it.  Considering the average home is on a .12 acre plot, that means approximately 8 families of four (which is a global average) can fit on a one acre plot comfortably.

Therefore, 32 people can comfortably fit on a one acre plot (with a front/back yard and average size home).

Now, take 32 and multiply that times 172,044,800 acres, and you come up with...

5,505,433,600 people can COMFORTABLY fit in the state of Texas alone... in other words, 5.5 BILLION people can fit comfortably in Texas alone, leaving only 10% more people to fit into the rest of the globe.

There are a total of 36,480,000,000 acres on planet Earth... yes, that means that Texas only encompasses 0.004% of the Earth total space.  So if the entire planet can fit on less than 0.5% of the Earths land, how is that we are running out of room?

Silence is golden.

8.8% of the worlds land( thats china and india) houses 1/3rd of the world population(1.3+1.1billion).The problem isnt land itself but disparity in the distribution of land. Russia/Canada/Australia have 23.4% of the worlds land but only around 200 million of the world population(thats barely 3% of people who have 1/4th the world land area). Africa has food problems partly becuase of illetracy and how the west has exploited it- the french with rwanda, the US with somalia/libya etc. and debeers with every diamond producing nation there is. Giving countries oil for food is not a way to save them. Its a means to weaken them to the point where they have to beg for basic resources to give up whatever natural resources they have.