CNN - The world's population is nearing 8 billion. That's not great news
It took thousands of years for the global population to hit 5 billion, which happened in 1987. Some 32 years later, we're closing in on 8 billion. This explosive growth concerns leaders at the United Nations, who created World Population Day in 1989 to raise awareness about the problems caused by overpopulation. The holiday is observed annually on July 11. Some areas are actually losing population According to the UN, 27 countries or areas have seen their populations shrink by 1 percent or more since 2010. This drop is caused by sustained lower levels of fertility, most notably in countries like China amd[sic] Japan. In fact the global fertility rate fell from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 in 2019 and is projected to decline further. But these shrinkages are dwarfed by population booms in other regions. The population of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, is projected to double by 2050.
The Guardian - Global population of eight billion and growing: we can't go on like this
Crucially, the vast majority of the extra 3 billion human beings that could be added to Earth's population will be born in Africa. Today there are about 1.2 billion Africans. By 2100, there will be more than 4 billion. Our growing population crisis therefore needs to be tackled there as a priority: by boosting women's rights, by making contraception easily available and by improving education for all. The remarks of President Magufuli suggest that this is going to be a very hard task. Nor have the actions of Donald Trump's White House helped. By slashing funds to international birth control programmes, the US is now undermining hopes of limiting Africa's population growth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @01:12AM (9 children)
Of course you can, you need migrants to keep your 401k equivalent to be worth a shit before the eventual collapse.
Even then, what are you going to do about people breeding like rabbits? Mandatory state enforced homosexuality and sterilization? Start killing off people that don't some criteria?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @01:36AM
Well, killing them may be a bit too much, but they definitely should some criteria.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:09AM (1 child)
lol, was buying smokes one morning and some customer at the counter said something about being worried about the state tracking everybody's sexuality or something. was surprised this is still a conspiracy trope
the yahweh religions are the experts at this. they do mandatory state-enforced heterosexuality
instead if we worked at bringing the rest of the world up to modern standards, including full reproductive rights, malthus could be averted
or we could do it the capitalist way with n-day
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 12 2019, @12:19PM
Nuclear war is supposed to be capitalist? Not "modern standards, including full reproductive rights"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:33AM
We can't go on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0Jmy-JYbA [youtube.com]
90 million views can't be wrong, can they?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:39AM (3 children)
There it is: sign an LGBTQ oath, or take your chances in a lottery for the Antarctic colony, where we're sending every person over the 7.5 billion population mark as a brave new self sufficient colony, learning how to deal with the rigors of cold life, like we might find when trying to colonize Europa or Titan.
Sure, some of them may die, but it's a sacrifice worth making.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday July 12 2019, @12:34PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @05:20PM (1 child)
If we are going to use the same 'solution' we will need 4 Earths for resources. Try again.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 13 2019, @03:59AM
We have one Earth with vastly more resources than your "4 Earths".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:51AM
It isn't a problem at all -- America just needs to open its borders. Problem solved. /s