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Question: I have a very simple idea to help make the world a nicer place!. 1 small problem, I need all humans to listen!?
The idea would be to get every human being to agree to make no more than one baby per individual or two per couple!. As far as I'm concerned everyone could have as much sex they want within the law as long as they don't make more than 1 or 2 kids!. The problem is that this would never work as a strictly enforced global law!. It could only be done voluntarily by people who could see the sense of it!. I can't think of any serious crises currently faced by our species: environmental, economic, social, political or religious that wouldn't be completely or partially resolved by minimizing human reproduction rates but many people are encouraged by religious doctrine, high infant mortality, racial fears, or any of a host of other factors to have large families and the richest of the rich have a vested interest in the chaos that an overcrowded world generates!. These are the forces I'd be up against!. National governments would have to be stabilized!. All people would have to be educated!. Contrary religions would have to be altered or inhibited!. All wars and war industries would have to end!. And that would be just a start!. Or I suppose we could all just wait and see how many other species go extinct before our population tops out!. What do you think!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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They won't listen because you simply state a goal, not a plan!.

Anyone can state a goal, and then lament that no-one will "follow" them!. It's because there's nothing to follow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

people are self seving tw@ts and the only thing that keeps most of them in line is the threat of prison!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.dont trust any of emWww@QuestionHome@Com

I agree with you that the human population growth is in desperate need of restriction!. The problem is that too many people feel it is their God-given right - if not their mission - to procreate!. Or, they think of children as their "legacy" and have to make mini-me's to do all the things they couldn't do!. Or children are fashion accessories or dolls they can dress up and play with!. Few people stop to think that the world is grossly overpopulated and it would do the planet absolutely no harm if we would cut down on the population growth a little - our species is not on the border of extinction, after all!. But religion and social pressure will make this concept too difficult for many to accept!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I suspect that you are not going to get very far with that agenda!. The problem is that humans are not all that obedient or altruistic!. Having governments control population requires a harsh dictatorship with a privileged elite at best and even in a benevolent dictatorship there are limits to enforcement and corruption!.

Poverty, disease, war, and famine will do a much cleaner job than any compassionate plan by humanity and you get to keep any illusions of democracy you want!. Try to stay out of the way when it happens!. Unfortunately, humanity doesn't have a built in sense-of-overpopulation meter!. that shuts down its reproductive capabilities!.Www@QuestionHome@Com