Overpopulation

How should overpopulation be dealt with?

Natures natural adjustment mechanism is disease. But that is being interfered with. People are living longer than ever due to advancements in medicine so much so that it isn't sustainable anymore.

>>80
You directly stated this.
You've got to wonder when the last time a person who talks about overpopulation went into the country side.

You think taking a leisurely glance at the countryside disproves overpopulation, as though space is the only requisite to preventing overpopulation.

If this is not the case then it's because you can't piece together a logical argument and there is no telling what the fuck you're trying to say.

Let's stop calling it a "over-population" and call it what it really is: Delicious food is expensive and scarce.

>>82
America alone throws away 40% of all food it produces. Food is not scarce, we have way more than we need or use and we've have even more if we could undo the damage of "organic" food lobbyists.

http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf

Diseases are adjusting themselves to deal with our medicine; I think what remains is that sanitary conditions have improved and that is what truly stops the spread of disease.

Overpopulation is an obvious result of longer lives. I see the solution coming via virtual reality. Eventually conscious will be separated and stored on networks. Human bodies may be preserved (the reality is only few would be kept for a long time). It gives everyone the best way out; to have their own individual reality which is equally as hollow and meaningless as what we created.

It's tragic, perfect, and not overly far-fetched.

>>82
>>83
Waste and excess doesn't change the fact that too high populations will result in a reduction in standards of living. They are 2 separate factors.

Anyway, frivolous spending on food which then sits in the fridge until it is past its sell by date is human nature, just like sex, you can't change human nature but you can invent things to compensate for human nature. This is where the difference lies, we have few solutions for laziness but we have solutions for sex, just by getting Africans to use rubbers we could prevent an enormous amount of suffering.

>>8
Nature doesn't have an adjustment mechanism, this implies it was engineered which is a philosophical matter and not a scientific one. If god (or allah, buddha, new age bullshit or whatever) exists then I am pretty sure they have created this universe for the express purpose of us being rational and using science to solve problems, or they would have not engineered it in such a manner as to suggest this, so for the sake of argument we should be investigating it's nature rather than it's creator.
That's another problem, since the religious folks are the ones that are continually repopulating at an increasing rate. How many of them would be fundamentalists and reject rationalism and science, I have no idea, but to be sure it's going to be a rather large chunk of that group.
other factors include the inclination of poor couples to have large families, prohibitions and poor access to contraception aswell as factors that reduce the ability to supply the population such as drought, war or oppressive regimes using starvation to pacify a population.
I'm not sure how much it would cost to produce, but there's environmental factors involved when it comes to disposal of birth control and whatnot. There really doesn't seem to be a way around it. You'll get called a monster if you suggest to cease all aid to third-world countries, which I would not disagree, but this population boom is vastly unsustainable in the long-term.

It sounds like now would be a good time to seriously consider colonizing other celestial bodies in space, and subsidizing national space programs have vastly increased technological advances in the past. There also needs to be a hold on privatization of certain industries as well since that has killed R&D big time.

>>69
Resource depletion, climate change, overpopulation, they are all happening.
Well, of course they are. No person with a sane opinion on the matter is denying that.
If you grow old you will see it.
Only if current trends continue.

It's not really overpopulation per se, it's over consumption which leads to over pollution. Land is plenty, modern farming can make food a non problem. It's western countries that need to downsize their appetite.