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Population control - not controversial I hope.. Page 3
Doubt if she'd agree. Not unless she likes living in (comparative) poverty.
But hey ho!
Quote: billwill @ July 31 2008, 2:36 PM BSTMost people who think we can send surplus population to other planets haven't thought it through. World population rises by at least 93,000,000 per year, so just to stay constant you would have to transport 93,000,000 people away from earth each year. For a reasonable ramp-down of world population, sending another 93 million away per year would be a great idea.
This I suspect is far greater than the number of people carried around by airlines each year. So it would be an incredible effort and gawd knows what it would do to the atmosphere/pollution on poor old Earth.
If we're at the point where we can terraform a planet and transport people, it wouldn't be a large stretch of the imagination to move a hell of a lot of people to the other planet and the idea is more to make a colony, not move the entire earths population. It's to sustain the human race more than anything.
It is Paul, it is.
Another way would be to ban f**king for a few decades or so. My wife has proved that it can be done!
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 31 2008, 5:21 PM BSTI just think there are too many humans on this planet
Nah, there's still plenty of room. I guess the UK at 246 people per square kilometer might seem a little crowded, but here in the States we're at a comfortable 31. Plenty of elbow room.
But I *am* in favor of getting rid of all the stupid people. That should give us all a little breathing room.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 31 2008, 5:42 PM BSTAnother way would be to ban f**king for a few decades or so.
I'd rather take the Logan's Run option.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 5:45 PM BSTNah, there's still plenty of room. I guess the UK at 246 people per square kilometer might seem a little crowded, but here in the States we're at a comfortable 31. Plenty of elbow room.
But I *am* in favor of getting rid of all the stupid people. That should give us all a little breathing room.
When I was learning America history, the country was obviously very underpopulated, and when they started building houses and farms, and colonies increased, they had people complained about there neighbours 15 miles away because it was getting too cramped.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 31 2008, 5:42 PM BSTAnother way would be to ban f**king for a few decades or so. My wife has proved that it can be done!
Quote: Paul W @ July 31 2008, 5:47 PM BSTWhen I was learning America history, the country was obviously very underpopulated, and when they started building houses and farms, and colonies increased, they had people complained about there neighbours 15 miles away because it was getting too cramped.
Everyone had a hundred acres and a tiny house back then. Now we (and by we, I mean I) put a 3,000 square foot house on 1/6 of an acre and then erect an 8-foot privacy fence around everything.
There's always Alaska: 600,000 square miles and 600,000 inhabitants.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 5:45 PM BSTNah, there's still plenty of room. I guess the UK at 246 people per square kilometer might seem a little crowded, but here in the States we're at a comfortable 31. Plenty of elbow room.
But I *am* in favor of getting rid of all the stupid people. That should give us all a little breathing room.
There's a view in the UK that the entire (non Red Indian) population of the USA could be got rid of to the great advantage of the rest of the planet! Then the Red Indians could have their buffalo back and their whole way of life! It's a thought, eh?
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 31 2008, 5:55 PM BSTThere's a view in the UK that the entire (non Red Indian) population of the USA could be got rid of to the great advantage of the rest of the planet! Then the Red Indians could have their buffalo back and their whole way of life! It's a thought, eh?
Does the world really need *that* many crappy casinos? But I am a fan of buffalo burgers and jerky.
(You might find a tomahawk lodged in your back if you used the term "Red Indian" around a Native American.)
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 6:00 PM BST(You might find a tomahawk lodged in your back
Why, do they all drive helicopters now?
Quote: ian_w @ July 31 2008, 6:06 PM BSTWhy, do they all drive helicopters now?
The Tomahawk is a sea-launched missile. But the U.S. Army has named its helicopter models after Native American tribes: Kiowa, Chinook, Apache, Comanche, etc.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 6:00 PM BSTDoes the world really need *that* many crappy casinos? But I am a fan of buffalo burgers and jerky.
(You might find a tomahawk lodged in your back if you used the term "Red Indian" around a Native American.)
Maybe so, but each bullet I fire kills ten 'injuns' no matter where I point the gun! You see, I've done my homework in that paragon of American culture, Hollywood! 
Quote: Griff @ July 31 2008, 6:07 PM BSTThis isn't a universal view in the UK. I like America and Americans, just don't like their politicians and politics, but then I don't like ours either.
True, not a Universal view!
You know, I reckon nobody likes politicians.
Certainly, politicians don't like each other either, I know that.. well, under some circumstances they may 'like' each other, but only when they are helping each other fill up at the trough.
Population control is the subject which dare not speak its name amongst politicians.
Even the most brain dead of politicos must surely realise that overpopulation is at the heart of most of the problems besetting the world - and yet they run a mile when the matter is mentioned.
I think this is going to be a very useful yardstick for judging the worthiness of those asking for your vote in future:
Will they consider debating publicly the necessity for population control? If yes, keep them on your list. If no, strike them off as being simply out to get power at any cost.
I read somewhere, a few years ago, that 3/4 of human beings that have ever lived are alive today*. It took me a while to get my head around. At first I thought the article was about being immortal...
* it might not have been 3/4. It may have been 1/2 or 1/4. But I think it was 3/4.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 2:23 PM BSTI've never spent a dime on Doritos (hate 'em) or Snickers (allergic to peanuts) but the money I've spent on beer would probably be enough to send a midget to live on Mars for a week or two.
That is the best excuse to give up drinking ever,
Paul Daniels, and Ian Hislop I'm going sober for you.
Hmm I'd drop bombs designed to home in on working TVs at random.
But only when Jeremy Kyle is on.
I'd also poison White Lightning, B&H, and fried chicken sold by angry hairy men near schools.
Also I'd replace all emergency payment officers at jobcentres with hungry tigers.
And I train packs of savage baboons to murder and eat anyone playing music on their mobiles on the street. Then release them all.