Thread: Should there be child restrictions

Originally Posted by cygnus

our population is growing exponentially.

Sorry if someone's already pointed his out, but, no, it's not.

It's still growing at a very high rate, but in recent years that rate has steadily decreased as people in developed countries choose to have less children in order to save more money for themselves (lol) so technically it's not exponential growth any more.

I have to agree with Spartiate here, go on about educating the poor masses and all that, and globalizing contraception or whatnot, but the reality is -- it's not going to happen.

Keep dreaming.

A more realistic approach would be to do absolutely nothing.

Baby factories like India and China will be stricken by plague and lack of sufficient food resources, there will be death on a massive scale, and meanwhile the wealthy people in the elite countries, with their much-lower, more sustainable rate of reproduction and better technology, will be fine.

The population will be much reduced (or at least stabilized), and the average intelligence of those remaining will increase!

And what's more, we don't even have to do anything!

Win-win!

Call me a cynic but that's my take on it