What is the Ideal Total population of the world ?

[Telstra]

so that there are enough resources to go around ?

And should the government reward people with no children lol

 

[zoltanspawn]

There's debate about whether there are enough resources to go around, when thinking solely of humans.

But if you include the other species also dependent on the Earth, there is no debate that resources are lacking. Hence, the current human-caused mass extinction of species.

Governments should reward negative population growth on this basis. They will not, obviously, because governments don't enact policy based on ethical imperatives, but instead on wealth-creation.

 

[Telstra]

Japan and Korea should be rewarded for negative human population growth.
China should be rewarded for introducing 1 child policy. Religious groups such as Catholics and pro life groups ... etc should be punished for encouraging population growth.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Japan and Korea should be rewarded for negative human population growth.
China should be rewarded for introducing 1 child policy. Religious groups such as Catholics and pro life groups ... etc should be punished for encouraging population growth.

Maybe you could send Japan a Hallmark Thank-You card?

Or make stern remarks online about Catholics?

But sadly, there are no rewards and punishments to be meted out in reality.

 

[HoodedRat]

I'm not sure about the world as a whole, but I think that the population of mainland Britain should be reduced to about 5% of the current numbers. Maybe then the country would have enough space for the return of its previously indiginous wildlife.

 

[vacancy3]

100

IMO....just saying

 

[Telstra]

100

IMO....just saying

100 Billion ?

 

[Cormac135]

One, myself. tbaft.

 

[vacancy3]

100 Billion ?

Oh hell no....one hundred people total

Maybe then the planet would stand a chance
....and the ozone
....and the animals
....and the relics

We've ruined this planet.....let the rapture come.....soon....pleeeeeez

 

[KölnElch]

Half a billion, as it was around 1500. Not more.

 

[Hakuba]

For me I'd be fine with like 10. Tops. (pun intended)

 

[kallipolis]

so that there are enough resources to go around ?

And should the government reward people with no children lol

Ideally people should consume much, much less...of the Earth's resources. Materialism needs to be kept in check.

Note how many people are mesmerised/enslaved by the latest smart phone, or the latest car, or the latest television etc.

In The West diabetes (11) has reached epidemic levels...people, over eating...gluttony leads to obesity.

Human stock needs on going replacement to serve the needs of an ageing population.

Wars, and disease epidemics have a well established habit of culling human life.

Population transfers from one continent, to another have been part of human kind's determination to survive, and prosper since homo sapiens first emerged in East Africa.

Man's ingenuity should not be underestimated when the survival of the fittest is being tested...daily.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

govermints foolkees reward?
govermints foolkees ans co alls a includees numba ofs world ova is?
ans teys terepees?
ans teys spoon feedars
ans shoffurs tak um playsckool
" supportin cast"
ooh tinku

anyway

fun answa how many folkees fit in hospitals world disastar 1 day
"in case astroid cover head wit ya hands tis a govermint tip fa survive"

anyway 2

etc so on yesterday ans

tinku

 

[unloadonme]

Considerably less than it is now. I'm doing my bit by not adding to the next generation.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

We can manage with the current number if we wanted, but it would require a slightly lower living standard than we have now in the west along with a spread of resources.

Personally I am fine with that, but I doubt most people would be - especially from the general attitude of American and British people. Both cultures are far to materialistic to make it work. There is also the issue that many people in developing nations want to have what we have now, and asking them to accept less in the future is also a difficult situation for us.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

^livins standard odd express ans ova cneturees
_wen a rulin elites play golf wit huaman apees ans planet_

ta tink a ages a supa UNI folkees ans co no figa teys ass size
"no say nothin butts"
betta nots or ya nose
"gott ya"

anyway

alls in handbook free a eons

tinku

 

[NotHardUp1]

Japan and Korea should be rewarded for negative human population growth.
China should be rewarded for introducing 1 child policy. Religious groups such as Catholics and pro life groups ... etc should be punished for encouraging population growth.

But your schema has gaping holes in it. How much punishment is due Africa for her relentless overpopulation, and India? And what would those punishments look like? Soylent Brown?

And what of China's "success"? She is rapidly trying to figure out how to get away from her own policy due to the imbalance it has created in the generations. The aging population is out of kilter with the working generation, the same sort of skew that is dooming Social Security in the U.S. And then there is the aborting, both state-sanctioned and off-record, of the female infants in higher numbers. What reward will be appropriate for that policy? Perhaps granting MORE state intervention into the private lives of its citizens? Perhaps banning homosexuality so as to make up for the eruption of gay rights in the West? No?

And then we are left with Japan and Germany vying for lowest birth rates. Let's ignore the real problem, which is material overconsumption in the industrialized world per capita. Let's just pat these two former Axis powers on the head. I'm sure neither country benefitted from near extermination of significant pockets of their citizens and neighbors in WWII. Let's ignore that a low birth rate IS its own reward in terms of lowered demand per capita of its citizens on resources. Perhaps allowing both countries to deploy their obviously brilliant birth control policies directly over a larger population would be an appropriate reward? What say we give back the Sudetenland to Germany and Manchukuo to Japan as prizes?

This is fun.

 

[vacancy3]

Lol

And the duggars should be beaten with a club......American white trash make me puke

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

shrink a human apees a 10cm ans get a real life modarn jurassic or modassic sumthang fa a fun time
_WOOOOOOOF_
" oh lookee so real mor popcorn "
&okay&

tinku

 

[jbrown329]

Lol

And the duggars should be beaten with a club......American white trash make me puke

My rant about the Mrs got me a 3 day timeout on another forum I frequent.