Sunday, December 7, 2008
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In regards to the post made by mm0506. It seems you have missed my main point. My point was, that one day there may be a need for a law that limits the amount children people can have. I am not supporting forced abortions, I only mentioned forced abortions to make readers understand that I do not support them. As for you solution, it does not address the problem, which is overpopulation. The reason parents have to wait such a long time to adopt a child is due to the adoption system. Parents have to fill out forms that must be approved and then go through home studies and finally be selected by a mother. Adoption is a great thing but it does not solve the problem of over population. I'm just saying that if the human population continues to increase, it will reach a point where the earth can no longer sustain the amount of people living on it. This problem can only be solved by some sort of population control, like a limit on the amount of kids a women can have.
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Hrmmm . . . at what point is that, though? What is the maximum carrying capacity of the Earth, and when will we reach that?
And I'm forced to ask: is overpopulation the core problem, or is it a symptom of another problem? You'll note that Earth's population has not been steadily rising for the last 10,000 years. Only in the last 300 years has the growth rate increased severely on a global scale. People didn't just suddenly say, "hey, let's have more kids!" People are simply living longer and not dying early of disease. That's not a random occurrence either. The capitalist economic system, though it has killed millions and caused massive suffering, has also promoted rapid economic growth through industrialism. That's fine, if we want to fully develop our means of production, but the problem is and always has been "how do you stop a system that requires unlimited economic growth (both in production and consumption)?" I realize we have all of these myths floating around about free market capitalism and its connection to the basic ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but at some point one has to take a critical look at the situation and ask oneself where these myths came from.
Create a controlled economy (gasp!), destroy class divisions, and pay people for the value they actually produce, and the population problem will start to go away. Desperation will decrease, free time will increase, real democracy (not this two-party, representative garbage) will be fostered, and a sense of social responsibility will be possible.
Until then, it's individualism at its finest.
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