What is the Ideal Total population of the world ?

[versa39]

we NEED to implement a policy like china..only base it on income , if your COMBINED income is less than 50k a year..you can't breed. these people that have -12 dollars in the bank and 9 kids by 8 different dads make me want to scream.( and they get a check for EACH of them since all different )
if you can't support it ...you can't have it

 

[Telstra]

The reward for low birth rate is , you have high standard of living.

 

[kallipolis]

The reward for low birth rate is , you have high standard of living.

Simplistic, and irrational...for your comment does not take into account the effect on social benefit systems from a rise in "dependency," that demonstrates a significant growth in virtually all countries in the 50+ population due to increasing life expectancy.

More people living into old age is a particular challenge as public benefit systems tend to be pay-as-you-go, i.e. retirees' benefits are funded by payments into the system by current workers, whose own benefits will be funded by payments from future workers.

It was politically easy to design such systems when workers were much more numerous than retirees, but now this ratio is changing, especially where very low fertility will shrink the working-age population while the older population expands.

Asian countries such as China are now discussing encouraging the growth of families from one, to two off spring.

European countries such as Germany, and Italy with negative growth in local human stock are relying on young immigrants to boost the expansion of the working population, which is why we are currently witnessing Germany's open arms to refugees arriving in their thousands from Syria, and Afghanistan.

 

[Telstra]

No, all Japan and Germany need to do is,
to import babies or young people from poor countries.
Therefore high standard of living forever ...

 

[kallipolis]

No, all Japan and Germany need to do is,
to import babies or young people from poor countries.
Therefore high standard of living forever ...

That's what Germany is doing...Japan is already encouraging the growth of larger Japanese families, with financial incentives.

After WW11 most Euorpean countries encouraged stock replacement, due to war lsses with financial incentives to produce more children....and it worked admirably.

 

[jbrown329]

That's what Germany is doing...Japan is already encouraging the growth of larger Japanese families, with financial incentives.

After WW11 most Euorpean countries encouraged stock replacement, due to war lsses with financial incentives to produce more children....and it worked admirably.

World War 11? And here I thought it was WWII. LOL, just yanking your chain.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

No, all Japan and Germany need to do is,
to import babies or young people from poor countries.
Therefore high standard of living forever ...

ooh change few words ans hole planet dumbass eiltes got way down size ans no gotta dump a owns pops downs crap hole again

tinku

 

[peeonme]

If we really believe in natural selection it will all work out, when we over populate to far mankind will implode. We may all die off or just enough to level the playing field with nature again.

 

[jbrown329]

If we really believe in natural selection it will all work out, when we over populate to far mankind will implode. We may all die off or just enough to level the playing field with nature again.

 

[Telstra]

I reward Australia and New Zealand for keeping the population low

 

[peeonme]

This is interesting, however I find that we contradict our own science by placing man outside of nature.
If man builds a dam, he is tampering with nature, if a beaver does it, why it's just nature.

Is man just doing what comes "naturally"? If man just evolved like all other species, how can we fault him for doing what nature gave him the ability to do?
If we believe that God put man in the garden and man screwed it up, then man has really dropped the ball,
which is it?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

This is interesting, however I find that we contradict our own science by placing man outside of nature.
If man builds a dam, he is tampering with nature, if a beaver does it, why it's just nature.

Not just nature.

 

[Kabluey]

Want to reduce population growth?
Let women get better educations in countries where they don't currently. Communities with higher levels of education for both sexes tending to have low or negative population growth.

 

[jbrown329]

This is interesting, however I find that we contradict our own science by placing man outside of nature.
If man builds a dam, he is tampering with nature, if a beaver does it, why it's just nature.

Is man just doing what comes "naturally"? If man just evolved like all other species, how can we fault him for doing what nature gave him the ability to do?
If we believe that God put man in the garden and man screwed it up, then man has really dropped the ball,
which is it?

When a beaver builds a dam, it doesn't cover miles upon miles of land. Look at Hoover Dam.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Want to reduce population growth?
Let women get better educations in countries where they don't currently. Communities with higher levels of education for both sexes tending to have low or negative population growth.

The problem is that smart people won't have any children anymore (viz the American Jews) and then everything that's solved is forfeit again.

 

[Telstra]

The problem is that smart people won't have any children anymore (viz the American Jews) and then everything that's solved is forfeit again.

You have missed the important point.
If all the women are educated and in control of their lives, they won't have many children.

 

[Kulindahr]

1,234,567,890

 

[peeonme]

When a beaver builds a dam, it doesn't cover miles upon miles of land. Look at Hoover Dam.

A beaver works within the capacity that nature allows, so does man.

 

[zoltanspawn]

A beaver works within the capacity that nature allows, so does man.

I used to think that if other species like beavers had the same capacity as we do to alter and exploit the environment, they would be just as pernicious. But then I considered the altruistic example of the bonobo, and now I wonder if perhaps a vile nature is somewhat unique to humankind.

 

[peeonme]

I used to think that if other species like beavers had the same capacity as we do to alter and exploit the environment, they would be just as pernicious. But then I considered the altruistic example of the bonobo, and now I wonder if perhaps a vile nature is somewhat unique to humankind.

A beaver will alter the environment to survive, man will do it to exploit and dominate. Both work with the tools that nature gave them.