Population Control

[Babbler]

From the China one-baby policy thread. Does the world need a population control policy? Does your country need a population control policy? How urgent and how strict should population control policies need to be? How high or low should the target population need to be? Is population control good public policy or is it an infringement on one liberties?

 

[Ball Lightning]

I think that it should be strongly suggested, but getting rid of povety would be the #1 way to reducing population boom.

 

[Godwynn]

I think that it should be strongly suggested, but getting rid of povety would be the #1 way to reducing population boom.

Perhaps stopping the boom in population would help get rid of poverty?

Children are expensive.

 

[Bill3000]

Not the world (that's stupid), not my country. China's probably the only case I can think of when such a drastic need to put population controls may be necessary. Perhaps India, but I'm not sure of their situation outside of the 60% literacy rate.

And a population control to incraese the population? That's even STUPIDER. Incentives to have a family assuming population needs to be increased? Sure, but mandating that people have children? That's the worst thing I have ever heard of in my life. We need quality parents, not every dumb person in the world having kids!

 

[Demetrias]

Bill what your suggesting would be one way of doing population control. It would be a population balancing. You have incentives for wealthy people to have more kids and you have decentives for poor people to have kids. Incentive, decentive programs are the only way you could do it for a democratic country. Though India does need a program like the one in China but Bangladesh even more so.

 

[sourboy]

I would say yes on all fronts, as there needs to be a decline before a leveling of population growth, which IMHO will be too high population once reached.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

We need population control in industrializing countries (China, India) and population incentives (tax breaks for families, etc.) for countries with falling populations (France, Germany, Russia, etc.)

Just to even out the population.

 

[Elrohir]

No population control, especially when the population as a whole has not democratically agreed to it.

 

[puglover]

Population control is a potentially violent breach of human rights.

There are so many better ways to control the population. Tax incentives, job benefits for single-child families, etc. People are just ignoring the one-child limit in China anyway.

 

[JerichoHill]

Perhaps stopping the boom in population would help get rid of poverty?

Children are expensive.

No, it doesn't quite work that way. Improving the economy does more to alleviate poverty and thusly lower birth rates than any self-imposed child ban.

 

[Ball Lightning]

No, it doesn't quite work that way. Improving the economy does more to alleviate poverty and thusly lower birth rates than any self-imposed child ban.

Perhaps stopping the boom in population would help get rid of poverty?

Children are expensive.

What Jericho said. Decreasing povety lowers the child birth rate.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

More woman, less men, more choices. Thank you.

 

[Mirc]

No, it doesn't quite work that way. Improving the economy does more to alleviate poverty and thusly lower birth rates than any self-imposed child ban.

Interesting enough, in Europe, most of the poorer countries have the biggest population decrease, and with 1 exception, the richer ones have huge population growth. Is it only because of the immigrants?

 

[Demetrias]

What about welfare mothers? They continue having kids and abusing the system even though we are attempting to relive their poverty and compared to the rest of the world they don't even live in poverty. Sometimes the government needs to step in because the people refuse to stop their own self destructive behavior.

 

[Verge]

We need population control in industrializing countries (China, India) and population incentives (tax breaks for families, etc.) for countries with falling populations (France, Germany, Russia, etc.)

Just to even out the population.

Population incentives rarely work if ever. France has tried multiple methods over the course of history to combat its "demographic doom," and there is no evidence that their approaches made any appreciable impact on population growth or decline.

 

[Demetrias]

Interesting enough, in Europe, most of the poorer countries have the biggest population decrease, and with 1 exception, the richer ones have huge population growth.

Of immigrants which are still poor people or at least begin that way.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

In my opinion, the world would be a better place with more Canadians... but America's population definitely needs to be controlled.

 

[Demetrias]

Only problem would be half of them would get tired of the cold and move down here thus defeating the purpose.

 

[Norseone]

In my opinion, the world would be a better place with more Canadians... but America's population definitely needs to be controlled.

haha our birth rate is up this year...past 2.1 get ready for more americans in your life.

 

[Ball Lightning]

Australian birth rate is like under 2 and creppy down (it went up for a short time).