China, with an eye on the extreme increase in its population – it rose from 600,000,000 in 1967 to 1,400.000.000 in 2010 – brought in a stringent one child per family. This policy has had the desired effect. the population has stabilised and had a slight decline to 1,300,000,000.
A billion and a third is still far too many. But China has relaxed the regulations to allow two children per family. They are focussed on the economic factors.
A View: The simple fact is that there are far too many human beings on this planet. We have to take drastic measures to reduce the numbers. We are having too profound an effect on the wilderness areas and wild-life. We need to limit our numbers or nature will do it for us.
There is no need to adopt such stringent measures as China – reducing family size to two children would be effective.
The economic argument for growth and an ageing population does not hold water. Growth cannot continue at this pace without destroying the planet. We have to sensibly control our numbers and find solutions to the problems of an ageing population. They are not insurmountable.
China took bold and effective measures. The rest of the world (particularly Africa, India and the Arab nations) need to follow suit. The uncontrolled population increase is fuelling the unemployment, poverty and migration crises.
Population control is the major problem facing mankind. The population explosion is what is causing most of the world’s problem.
For the sake of the planet we need to address it!
Read what else I’ve got to say about the environmental destruction that we are causing world-wide – my first-hand accounts!
I’d like to see the revision study of population growth here in UK and some form of social responsibility introduced. I know for a fact that some folks will automatically assume severe right wing ideology, but it’s got nothing to do with politics. What’s needed are stringent measures to curb this, be it economic testing on the parents’ financial ability to raise so many children and even to the extent of probably requiring some form of legal measures to ram home the severity of the issue. I see far too many British Asian mothers traipsing along the streets with a gaggle of kids. The future repercussions are frightening. Back in time people 2nd guessed that about half their children would not survive infancy. However, it is inherent within their society on religious grounds to produce as many as possible. Trouble is this action in itself breeds poverty and is particularly evident in strong working class areas with already cramped housing conditions.
A few months ago I was asked by a social worker if I knew anything about the people whom lived above the shop – there’s 3 floors of 2-bedroom flats above. No I didn’t and later found out that there were 13 people living in one such flat – 2 families, granny’s and all. Just the thought of the queue for the loo in the morning makes my eyes water, but it seems it’s all these people know and society at large is avoiding the issue – probably scared off by the loony left on grounds of “racism” bs. I object to the fact that decent people’s hard earned is going their way in endless family allowance benefits etc. That’s a damned disgrace and I never signed up for that deal.
What is it going to take for us to state sorry, but you can’t have any more kids as you simply can’t afford them. It’s always somebody else that’s got to do the dirty work and never the perpetrators themselves.
There’s a slight whiff of deja vu “don’t look at me, it was him” here Opher, what with being father to 4! But since that ship has long left the dock, it looks like you’re off the hook on this one, eh?
Yes, sadly you’re right. We do need to bring in measures to stop incentivising large families. It is common sense. There are too many people. The population needs to reduce. If only we had been more aware fifty years ago!
This is rather like the climate change issue too. Less of a problem if the long term survival of all had really been taken into account 10 or 20 years ago. It’s all short term policy for profits and politics.
Too true – all short term policies and no long term thinking – all based on growth and profit and no thinking about long-term environmental issues. It is one mad rush without any consideration about where we are heading!