Climate Change

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Birth control is not a viable solution to world overpopulation.

1. Birth control only limits population growth in the developed world. In the developing world it might decrease the growth rate, but it is still growing rapidly.

2. Birth control is dependent on the type of economy (rural agricultural society still wants lots of children).

3. Birth control is dependent on the economy. When the economy collapses so does birth control.

The only realistic and practical ways to reduce the number of people on the planet from the existing number are:

1. War
2. Plague
3. Holocaust

Also, please note, when a society, like Japan, has a birth rate less than 2 for an extended period of time they "age". This in turn causes the economy to collapse because you have too many elderly people depending on a shrinking tax base to support them. So then you can't (we have yet to see it) have a vibrant economy that is at less than 0 for a growth rate in population. Even if the entire world had a birth rate of 1.5, shrinking the world's population by a billion or so people over the next 60 years, it would cause a global collapse in all of the economies, which in turn would destroy the birth control and birth rates would spike.

Also, in the past wars have not had a big impact on population because the population growth rate is really dependent on women and not men. Historically it is the men who fight and get killed, but within a generation the population has fully recovered and is growing strongly again.

Plague is also not great at limiting growth rate as it generally strikes the young and the elderly.

Personally, I feel all of the overpopulation discussions are Godless and atheistic. If you believe God created this earth, and put man on it, then you also must believe that He is willing and able to care for them. God commanded man to replenish the earth with every intention of providing a suitable home for all of them.

That's not to say, however, that sin will not take its toll on man's population.