[ SECRET POST #1775 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1775 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you completely.

[(Anonymous)]

Then I think you and the OP are over simplifying a very complex issue without truly understanding what the implications of such an action would be. The answer to the world's problems cannot simply be limit the births. Do some more research to find out why.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that it wouldn't be a silver bullet - I don't think any one thing could possibly be "the answer to the world's problems" - but taking measures to slow down world population growth could be one part of an answer. I've done plenty of research and none of it has given me any cause to believe that overpopulation is not a global problem.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough point. I suppose the fact that the aging population here is having a massive impact on my future-retirement, pension etc colors my view. I am paying into a pension fund that I know I will never get to see the benefit of but feel obligated to pay as I know it is paying someone else's pension right now. I have enormous worries (as I know globally others do to) about my financial future. Who will pay my pension, will I have to work till I drop? I just fail to see how a drop in birthrates would help this problem. I am no economist, I don't have the answers but all I know is limiting the births alone would devastate our economy. Perhaps there is an answer, perhaps limiting births would be part of it, but I stand by my opinion that the OPs comments are naive and simplistic.

[soledad-moon.livejournal.com]

Who will pay my pension, will I have to work till I drop?

I think the idea of pensions will go into hibernation during the next decade or so and then come back when the population numbers start their projected freefall around 2070 or so. At least that's what the population projections have been indicating for the last two years. Myself, I fully expect to work until I die (even though my husband's saving for retirement for both of us; I'll let him enjoy it). Part of that is financial, but part of it is also psychological. I have a lot of emotional problems if I'm not constantly working.

In any case, limiting births is a step many governments aside from China are trying to do. India has a pretty massive program to tackle their overpopulation problem that involves (among other components) increasing female education and offering money to men willing to get vasectomies. This will probably not do anything in the short term (which isn't all that short when one considers the time frame to fall within at least a 30 year period), but it will ease some of the long term concerns such as sustaining a population when resources within the nation's borders are depleted and importing of basic goods increases at an exponential rate.

[(Anonymous)]

Although for our own reasons SO and I will physically be unable to work into old age, your comment has given me food for thought.

Incidentally as I was haunting this thread, I was also searching sites for unique baby gifts for two couples. The dichotomy was most unsettling.