Hi She-Ra,
Pestilence and shortages of food, water & energy are a consequence of over population, which naturally will control to a certain degree populations.
The political problem is that expansion or growth has always been seen as something of success and hs always been encouraged.
The economical stress now is caused by the fact that consumption has all but stopped growing and in some cases is receeding.
As a solution for population growth, I can only see systems like the Chinese are imposing, which is ironic as China is the most highly populated country in the world at the moment.
I have been thinking a great deal about this and am currently searching for a peaceful way of reducing the population, however, my opinion would be deemed by the Catholic church as obscene. I would encourage women and men (especially the men) after their first child to steralization until the population is reduced to a more manageable number.
With less people on the planet there will be more resources for the world, everybody could die naturally in peace and there would be less need for war.
As for what type of people they wish to remain after reduction I would imagine that people who contribute something will be those who are spared, for example, great minds, intellects, younger, stronger people preferably actively employed so thay can show immediately their talent.
Those people who are of low intelligence, who suck the system rather than contribute to the system can be sacrificed. I also think that the elderly will be spared out of respect of their contribution to society during their 'active' era of their lives.
It's a great topic for discussion.
Best regards,
Steve
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by She-Ra
Yep we've taken over and pushed the envrionment back and other species out.
They could do it cumulatively as it appears they are doing e.g. war (international and civil), pestilence, food/water/energy shortages, currency failure and relying on import for food and manufacturing. But a question is - surely they've got an idea (whether the published figure is really reflective or not) of how many people they want left, but how will they discriminate the 'types' of people they want i.e. how will they be able to keep the workforce they want in a society with so many work sectors? They'll want people to clear up the mess, physical and otherwise, but what else will they want them for?
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