To reduce over population in the world, show drastic measures be taken? (see details)?
412362
I would have to agree with Bacteria Boy. Population is kept in check by diseases for example at our time right now AIDS is the one that slow down population explosions around the world. Also, if we practice population control like having only a small amount of children and practicing safe sex by using protection and adoption we can slow down population growth. It has to be done at a global scale to even make a difference because of population explosions that occur even after population zero.
193703
Educate the individuals. Eliminate secret systems and complex systems of taxation and confusion in government. Tax consumption, so that an individual's work (and life) is valued more than their group wastefulness. Institute population control measures so that there are fewer people, thus increasing the perceived value of each person. (by birth control and normal attrition, not through war, George) \nMinimize the material requirements of individuals in a country, and you minimize how much that country will need to take or subjugate itself to other countries. (conservation)\nYou can't ensure that individuals are safe. You can minimize the things that put the general public in danger, and you can educate the individuals to protect themselves. Civil liberties and freedoms are only as good as the people who take advantage of them. If we only use our civil liberties and freedoms to consume the world around us, fighting over every last morsel of food, fresh water, or chrome rims, then why should our children have any respect for us, or even imagine there will be anything left for them? I'm not as worried about what foreign threats will do to us as I am worried about what our children are going to do when they find out how our obliviousness has stolen their future.
1003459
Yes it needs to cut the fat and get rid of the department of Housing and Urban Development, Education, Agriculture, and that is just what we could get rid of on the first day and nothing would change in the country except that we would save money.\n\nthese departments actually do nothing.
480751
Prevention is the only way that I see as a real solution. \nIt starts with raising your children to respect others and treat everyone as equal. Equally deserving what life has to offer.\n\nIt has to start with the parents. I am sure there are other ideas but all those are remedial.
835888
Basing this on rough statistics you'd be looking at a maximum current population of about 60 million, give or take a million.  That is of course assuming that all other aspects remain the same.
734952
it's called population control...fits right in with natural selection!
376298
nope...resources are being consumed and very little left.no more space for more human species.its very hard to live since poverty is present in any sides of the world now.miserable lives arec waiting for 95% of the newborns....just think about the world situation
708784
That's called eugenics, and has been tried in the US. It failed. See the link below for information about the eugenics program in Virginia - this is just one example.\n\nWe need to use social pressure, as they do in China, to discourage over-population. Particular cultures and socio-economic strata have a disproportionate number of children. We need to teach all Americans that they should only have one child each - that ensure a  zero growth population.\n\nExtra children should be taxed; there should be no tax incentives for having children. Similarly, welfare benefits for larger families should be reduced.\n\nOver time, this will lead us all to a more prosperous nation.
626960
An just how would you enforce a population cap without using inhuman methads?  Those countries that have tried to regulate births frequently use inhuman methods and still fail.
720934
The Earth is in danger of becoming almost totally inhospitable for most higher life forms.  Unless we start being more intelligent and get population and resource management under control, the Earth will do if for us.
617961
i don't think it's currently the number as much as it's the location.. people are multiplying in regions incapable of sustaining them. ironically, birthrates are often decreased in agrarian areas.
626512
High birth rates are a global problem.  It would be better if everyone limited themselves to one or two children.  That kind of global thinking won't happen, though, until education is valued by governments and all people are made aware of the world overpopulation crisis.
47389
- There is possiblities to overpopulate on the earth.\n- But think more population always leads to more destruction.\n- The nature will become imbalance because of over population and often tragedies like tsunamies, earth quakes might kill scores of peoples.\n- Wars and Malnutrition also will become a major cause for the destruction of human lives.\n- So There is possibilities to control overpopulation of human beings to balance the earth.\n- Scientific figures might say what will be population after 100 years or thousand years.\n- But the God and the nature decides what to be on the earth and what should not be.\n- Dont forget there is also the possibilites to exist no human life in this planet.
425126
The government is unfortunately less inclined towards preventing problems, such as overpopulation, and more inclined towards fixing current ones, such as providing food for the ten children in a family.  I definitely hear what you're saying though, and I think a tax benefit should be given as incentive for not having children.  Talk to your congressman.  Unfortunately, though, I doubt you'll make any progress on this problem under the current administration.
757772
I think there's a screw loose in all humans that acts as a form of population control. This, of course, is aggression. For all the sickness and famine and natural disasters, we're still spreading across the globe in a hurry and the failsafe to keep our numbers down is war. Nasty, but it seems to be the case. I could suggest alternatives (Olympic-style competitions to attain land or what have you) but I doubt anyone would adhere to them. Perchance the best hope we have is space travel, whereby the human race can spread as it needs to and will have less need to club each other to death for the sake of a patch of dirt.
609960
The world's population is following a very standard growth curve, which every population of animal follows.  It begins with a lag phase, then exponential growth, and then, as the species begins to reach equilibrium with what their environment can support, begins to level off.  We are just starting to level off - world population growth is slowing.  It is projected that the world will top out at 9-11 billion people.  This will not be an overcrowded situation - humans currently occupy only a tiny fraction of the planet.  Doubling that will not be a serious problem.\n\nThat being said, obviously there are limits to how many of us earth can sustain.  The biggest problem right now is that the birth rate is way too high in places that cannot support their population.  This problem will correct itself - it has to.
9976
they help the world from being overpopulated