what can we do about overpopulation in asia?
397633
Put a stricter restriction on how many children a couple can have.
999975
Police state....can anyone say that?  No, no government should restrict the size of a family.  To have children or not is the sole right of the people involved, not a government.  Look at the Chinese government, they restrict their families to have only two children.  What if those two children are girls?  They get sold or sent to an orphanage so the couple can try for a boy.  Absolutely ludicrous!  Over population is a concern, but I think the biggest concern is not being able to feed your family, ergo, people are regulating themselves, well, with the exception of the religions that say you can't use birth control. (you know who you are) <g>
634043
The overpopulation of the planet is the biggest disaster ever. We are just now beginning to experience the horrific consequences.
65866
There aren't any medicines that can prevent it - that's why it's such a potential problem. Here is what has been recommended in Asia:\n\n1. Exercise regularly\n2. Eat nutritiously\n3. Don't touch birds (a lot of people in Asia buy live poultry in the street markets and take them home to kill them, etc.)\n4. Wash your hands often\n\nSome people here were getting Tamiflu shots, but I don't know if that even prevents it. And a lot of people aren't eating chicken at all anymore.\n\nHope you stay well and safe.
904945
Overpopulation is the elephant in the living room that no one's talking about.  It's one of the biggest global threats.  I think people avoid the subject because it involves birth control education, including abortion.  \n\nThe Bush administration has instituted the Global Gag Rule, which restricts foreign non-governmental organizations that receive money from the USAID's family planning program from using their OWN non-U.S. money to\n-provide safe abortion services\n-impart any information about abortion\n-engage in public information services about abortion\n\nBush says this is because he doesn't want US money paying for overseas abortions.  But Federal law has barred the use of US fund for abortions since 1973.\n\nHere's a good site with lots of info:\nhttp://www.populationconnection.org/
381521
His/Her way of controlling overpopulation, no wars over race, ethnicity or religion and we would just be overpopulated.  Also God has to look down and have something for entertainment!!!
233769
Why not promote family planning to countries that are experiencing high growth rates?  Promoting newer renewable  energy resources?  Promote and fix education systems?  \n\nI think everyone is trying to already.
1172588
Here are several sources that are involved with wildlife conservation in asia.  That have all made an impact in there own way, but there is no one group that can do it all.  It is an individual effort from many different sources.  I hope these help you out.
179650
No, but I do think that people should RESTRICT the number of children they have. If most couples restricted themselves to only two children, the our population would go DOWN, because some of these children would die in birth or from disease before they reached reproductive age.\n\n"Do we need to keep adding people to the planet?" The word "need" is, in this instance, subjective. Economically, it would be a very bad idea to stop adding people to the planet. For our /species/, it would be a very bad idea to stop adding people to the planet.\n\nAs for the website you referenced, what good is it for the Earth's biosphere to return to "normal" (a very subjective condition anyway) if humans aren't around to enjoy it?\n\nWe should probably restrict ourselves in the number of children we have. It is crazy to have 10 children in an age where overpopulation is so prevalent. Of course, this might also depend on where you life. It would be worse to have so many children if you lived in India than if you lived in the U.S.
446446
China is breeding itself into non-existance.\n\nWhy?\n\nWell, for years and years and years, they have had a rule about having a MAXIMUM of children per couple limited to 2. In China, males are better then females, more respected then females, and so, when they are limited to 2 children, they choose boys. If the wife is pregnant, and they find out it is a girl, more often then not they aborted the pregnancy.\n\nNow, that is coming full circle as there are way more men then women in China.\n\nIt's getting harder to procreate.\n\nAs for the other two... Yeah. I ain't touching it.
668433
In India, efforts toward population containment have given way to mandatory sterilization and inevitably fueled a bias against female infants.  In other words, the limitation set upon offspring has created a desire for strictly male progeny.  During the course of such legislation, well over one million female children have disappeared, falling victim to abandonment or outright slaughter.  China also continues to enforce regulation mandating that a couple bear no more than one child.  Again, the policy strongly induces the desertion of female infants, a condition alleviated only by their widespread adoptions into the United States.  In the end, I feel that working to restrain poverty in the cited countries would suit the cause of lessening the fertility rate, ultimately arresting this abuse and destruction of humanity.
508920
We are not under populated. Land or size of a country has nothing to do with a country population it is the resources that is needed. We are running out of water and areas that can sustain population. \nIt is call "Carrying Capacity" look it up you just might learn something. \nAlso, the USA is losing a quality of life do to over population. 300,000,000 at a 1.25 rate of growth. Traffic, smog, the in ability to fix roads, educate children, health care you name it we are losing everything. Those are the things that made this country the best place to live and we are losing it fast.
12287
There is a phrase that scientists use called Carrying Capacity which is the amount of a species that the environment can hold due to limiting factors which are any biotic (living factors) or Abiotic (nonliving factors)factors that restrict the existence, reproduction, or distribution of organisms. When the number of a species reaches or exceeds the carrying capacity then limiting factors begin to take effect such as the amount of food available. Also when the carrying capacity is exceeded competition begins for food, shelter, and reproductive rights. There are three types of growths: stable  growth, rapid growth, and slow growth.An example of stable growth would be the U.S. an example of rapid growth would be China. Since not all countries have the same growth rate it is hard to say whether there are too many people in the world. So really it is a matter of opinion. In some countries there are to many people, such as third world countries, but in other countries there are not too many people. As for what we can do about it, there is nothing we really can do besides what China does (limits each household to one child). What happens is when the carrying capacity is exceeded there is not enough food, shelter, etc. for all the individuals in a population. As a result those individuals die and the population's size eventually falls below the carrying capacity(which is what happens in most third world coutries). This is referred to as 'Survival of the Fittest'. It's horrible to imagine but it's the truth and theres not much we can do about it.
284304
Isn't two enough? Do you really want to contribute to the world's population problem? Any more than two is a selfish act in my humble opinion (unless it was an accident). If every couple had only two children, the world population would remain constant. Live by example. Concentrate your resources into making the two children you have into the best possible humans they can be. Don't dilute your resources on more kids than that. It's not fair to them.
939968
The premise was that overpopulation exhausted the earth's resources so people had to eat energy bars made of processed human flesh.\n\nIf the anti-contraception religious fundamentalists have their way, it will be sooner rather than later.
504863
Overpopulation is one of the worst problems in India. India has very high Gross Domestic Product value but beacuse of overpopulation India's per capita income is quite low. Population growth according to some recent research can also be positive for India. Europe, Japan and China are losing people and that will create a workforce shortage. Number of elderly people would increase and they will demand their pensions. That would actually be bad for their economy. However, I believe that India will overcome all this challenges, like it always has. For example - countless number of invasions and tremendous ethnic diversity.
863637
Gandhigiri is the only solution.\nWe should gift the Arunachal pradesh, bihar, kashmir and nagaland to china.\nWe should not have sucha plague like states in india.\nChina will definitely give us Tibet in replacement.