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Originally Posted by Corey
Fix Men after their first child (why men? it takes women some time once pregnant before they can bear again. men can go from women to women if we need a sudden boost in population.) . at least for the time being till population comes down.
(fix - no children)
Its unfortunate that it has to come to these step but what else is their when we refused to control our population on an individual basis?
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This may all sound good in theory - but how can things like these be regulated in a practical way? Over-regulation of society as a final solution to the "refusal of people to control population on an individual basis" has never worked in the past, and is extremely unlikely to work in the future. Population-economics of that variety is not as simple as planning for natural resource use. The arguments against your expressed solutions, will be put forward by your opponents on the basis of social, political, cultural (and some would even say moral) dimensions, that would prevent such measure from ever being considered.
I am not denying or overlooking the very real problems which face the question of sustainability - food crisis, energy crisis, environmental uncertainty (weather/climate) and all varieties of crime and corruption, but the fact remains that history will demonstrate that all experiments of formal state-sponsored social engineering have always failed. Individual leaders may have at times appeared to have come close to taking over-regulation to the point of absolute dominance almost to a practical reality, but these have seldom if ever outlived the leader (a most recent example perhaps in Turkmenistan).
Survival and propagation of
Homo sapiens is fundamentally and irrevocably entrenched in our DNA as a species - no amount of reasoning, logic and preaching on the basis of environment, resources, climate, sustainability, etc could ever convince the majority of what you recommend...