Are there ethical ways to deal with overpopulation?

[Robert Greene]

Are there any ethical ways to gradually reduce the worlds population, in order to save the environment and resources, for future generations?

 

[JimW]

Yes, radically redistribute wealth so that people feel secure and in a position to make fertility choices. History shows that will lead to stabilisation then even slow decline.

 

[Robert Greene]

Overpopulation is the greatest asset for globalist to tap into an endless supply of cheap labor. Outsourcing and overpopulation go hand-in-hand. That's why you see the decline in western manufacturing.
It also gave investors the tools to become extremely wealth off real-estate holdings. The next generation has to bankrupt themselves, in order to make the retirees rich.

 

[existentialist]

Err...TWO threads?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Err...TWO threads?

overpopulation of threads...

 

[cypher79]

Are there any ethical ways to gradually reduce the worlds population, in order to save the environment and resources, for future generations?

Why don't you start by killing yourself?

One less twat and all that...

 

[existentialist]

Why don't you start by killing yourself?

One less twat and all that...

Ouch! I reckon that could have waited until page 3, or the twelfth "overpopulation" thread by the OP

 

[andysays]

overpopulation of threads...

I can think of a totally ethical way of dealing with that...

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

I think Robert should volunteer to have his vasectomy before having any kids at all.

 

[fishfinger]

I think Robert should volunteer to have his vasectomy before having any kids at all.

He'd have to wait for his balls to drop first.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

The next generation has to bankrupt themselves, in order to make the retirees rich.

Ah. I knew you'd get to targetting the retired people...
So will you be gassing the elderly or injecting them once they become useless in your world? I mean if they cant work they're just another burden in your societal model.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

He'd have to wait for his balls to drop first.

Spewed my coffee all over the phone now

 

[fishfinger]

Spewed my coffee all over the phone now

Sorry for the waste of your coffee

 

[existentialist]

He'd have to wait for his balls to drop first.

Beat me to it by 2 minutes and a page refresh!

 

[Robert Greene]

I'm deleting this thread. The other one stays

 

[fishfinger]

I'm deleting this thread. The other one stays

You don't get that option

 

[Robert Greene]

Nothing wrong with a debate. I want people talking. Some of them have good ideas.

 

[DotCommunist]

Nothing wrong with a debate. I want people talking. Some of them have good ideas.

are those the ones that get to live?

 

[ViolentPanda]

1) What do you mean by "ethical" (some people take it to mean "morally acceptable" or "doesn't incur moral hazard on my part"?
2) Define "over-population".
3) Humans, even as individual beings, are mostly instrumental, and always have been. There's no instrumentalism to saving the planet for future generations. That's altruism, which is rarer than instrumental behaviour.

 

[Pickman's model]

Are there any ethical ways to gradually reduce the worlds population, in order to save the environment and resources, for future generations?

At the risk of repeating myself, the only way is ethics

 

[pogofish]

Are there any ethical ways to gradually reduce the worlds population, in order to save the environment and resources, for future generations?

You don't seem to have any great problem with thread overpopulation though...?

And you don't say here what kind of direct action you are planning to take about it either?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Closing this one.