Yuyutsu,
That's too much sense for our do-gooders. Much clearer conscience to let 2 billion exist in misery & suffering than prevent pregnancies so many females can't afford because of the Leftie do-gooders. We have some of those in our organisation. There sending the outfit broke, loss of jobs etc. but their own taxpayer funded allowances are limitless.
Instead of foreign aid in money it should be in sterilising food. No more starvation within five years. Now that would be terrible, wouldn't it ? Imagine do-gooders on high income not having any excuses to board the bandwagon of making a huge tax-deducting show of their benevolence ?

Of course we don’t want diseases, or famines or wars, to bring down the human population. We want it to decline at a steady rate through natural attrition, with a below-replacement fertility level.

We need vastly more work of this sort around the world: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Family-Planning. We need governments to get committed to it, not just the occasional NGO.

But this is not enough. Even if this was enormously successful, it would lower the population growth rate down towards zero, but it wouldn’t take us towards a lower population.

So unfortunately, more draconian measures are needed.

Two-child policies need to be implemented around the world. And hopefully some governments will see the merit in having a one-child policy.

Or we could just do nothing, or next to nothing, as we now are, and wait for Gaia to do her own ‘readjusting’… which she WILL do, big time, in the not too distant future.

Perhaps the likes of XDR TB are part of her plan.

Perhaps the likes of XDR TB are part of her plan.
Ludwig,
Yep ! The less they listen to sound advise the harder it is going to hit them. Do any of our religious posters have any quotes regarding over population from their 1000page manual ?

Yes, I thought Ludwig would be delighted at the prospect of thousands of millions of human deaths.

Oh and there's that old left wing coincidence thing again isn't there?

Dear Jardine,

<<Yes, I thought Ludwig would be delighted at the prospect of thousands of millions of human deaths.>>

Delighted in the fact that there are less of us on this planet - YES.
Delighted in the fact that thousands of millions had to die for that - NO.

The more people are squeezed on the planet, the more regulation is needed so they do not step on each others' toes. Surely you should also be delighted if as a result of having less people we can have less government!

<< Delighted in the fact that there are less of us on this planet - YES.
Delighted in the fact that thousands of millions had to die for that - NO. >>

Absolutely Yuyutsu.

Sheesh, doesn’t that Jardine fellow say some steeyUUpid things!! ( :>/

<< The more people are squeezed on the planet, the more regulation is needed so they do not step on each others' toes. Surely you should also be delighted if as a result of having less people we can have less government! >>

Good point Yuyutsu.

Jardine, our resident antigovernment or minimalist government poster, should realise that the bigger the population, the bigger the need for government regulation and for impositions upon us all.

He should be an arch population-reduction advocate!!