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This is why I was so disappointed when the Australian government launched the baby bonus to give out free money to encourage mothers to have babies. Majority of births occurred in low income areas where the mothers were single and under the age of 20. Some didn’t even spend the money on their children, but instead used it to buy plasma tvs, to get plastic surgery or on alcohol and drugs. There should be a test to prove whether people are suitable to be parents: they should be financially, emotionally and mentally ready.

I’m pretty disturbed at population growth, because I know it’s unsustainable. I have two siblings so I’m more than happy to not have children of my own. However, I was horrified when my partner told me he wants a BIG family, at least 5 kids (his grandmother had 12 children!!!). We’ve had many debates and have finally agreed to have two – even though I told him I don’t want to have children. I actually don’t mind adopting children who already exist, but his against the idea of raising “someone else’s kid”. Most of my female friends can’t wait to get married and have babies, but I seem to be the only one who doesn’t give a sh*t

What is more destructive than overpopulation is over consumption and an unappreciation for our environment. That is the core problem. This video makes me further understand why some governments encourage war and death, it is a form of population control. It is better for all governments to be straight forward with a limited child policy than to trick you into believing you have more freedoms than you really do. If they are to punish familes for having many children they should also punish those who overconsume.

I suggest you re-read the post CAREFULLY. Note, just as carefully, what IS said and what is NOT.

A great deal is missed by disregarding the book cited. If specific hand-holding in the references area are required – you’re unlikely to understand or appreciate the answers anyway.

“Those who cannot REMEMBER* the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana, “Reason in Common Sense”
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*emphasis – my edit; otherwise, quote is accurate.

yep, all gonna die

It brings me great grievance know our fate. All this knowledge, and no controlling action to the people. The people that run our government should control the actions of the people in order to keep balance in the world between man and environment.

Environmental ethics should rule given our current state. we’ve become out of balance.

I hate the way this world is being governed, and every one and everything is going to pay the penalty for our actions as humans.

We’re a living virus on this planet. In my own educated prediction, this is the last century of humanity living on planet earth if we continue on this destructive path.

I hope that someone creates a virus or through some contact creates a virus that has predominate effects on the human population.

not bad, you can definetly tell the author went to some length to put this information together, but there are a few things he didnt include; the foremost being the amount of people that die everyday from famine, disease, war, and even natural causes, to counterbalance birthrates. There is the prosepect of building communities on the ocean if we have fully inhabited our cities, there is hydophonic farming if we use up all of our top soil and there is desalinization of the oceans if we run out of clean water, the author didnt mention human ingenuity and technology as a solution to meeting the demands of a larger population.

Let’s stick a tube in our ass and stack up in rows of ten by ten maybe if we stay quiet and use each other’s body heat we might live another hundred years.

Please pass the plastic tomato I want to lick it again.

I find this essential issue hard to face because the future seems so bleak, yet it is extremely important. Humans are dependent on and part of the natural environment. Destroy it and you destroy us. I am grateful to David Attenborough to have put together this Horizon program that speaks about the carrying capacity of the Earth for humans because it puts the issue in simple enough terms that the average person can understand the problem and possible solutions. Each choice a person makes about what to eat, what to buy, what to recycle, how to travel, and how to vote impacts our use of natural resources. Collectively, these decisions can have an extensive impact on our lifestyles and our children’s futures. I am 60 and expect to live about another 30 years. Our decisions matter.

O ya and one more thing Just so people know in the past when the Earth was all around more tropical and warmer the equator wasn’t hotter than it is today tropics will remain about the same temperature because of extreme humidity and distance from the sun. Distance from the sun I say it again because people forget that actually changes and is the most important factor in determining climate factors. That’s all I really have to say about this movie, and I call it a movie for a reason.

This Doc makes me think of our only real solutions; reduce the population, or (only hinted at in this film) become an interplanetary species.

Stephen Hawkings for one believes that “having all our eggs in one basket” will not only stress our natural resources to the breaking point, but also leaves the entire human population open to mass extinction from outside forces.

I agree with both these views, I’m just disappointed that every generation currently living will never see the latter.

most of what you say is missing is in the documentary. After war, disease, natural disasters and so forth the population is increasing by two people per second.

They did mention technology as part of the 3 step solution along with population control and stopping over consumption. But technology alone is just a means of pretending we are smarter than we actually are. It’s like painting a rotting house. The whole world needs to become more educated, not just a few scientists with a breakthrough.

There are a lot of good intelligent people in this world. Let’s just hope there’s enough to outweigh the ignorance.