World population must be controlled & the only question is by whom. The UN ? Sorry, I thought that was funny.
Those who provide must be given the task of that control. Late;y, it's the hold their hands out countries which have dictated simply because they could on account of the immoral misuses of foreign aid money. No more money, only goods & only after agreeing to sterilisation after two children if they can't get by without foreign aid.
We don't need to be cruel to be kind, just sensibly firm.

Individual - I concur - Tough love- I learn fastest that way and I've found others do to. Some people aren't even as smart as their pets.

Thanks Belly for creating this thread - also for acknowledgement on Tuesday, 12 June 2018 1:18:07 PM (I initially missed your reference).

Hasbeen - It's a pleasure to hear your first hand accounts. See Tuesday, 12 June 2018 1:47:57 PM

Runner's - I guess India eating cows would have an impact on the supply side. But culture is important for the stability of society. My understanding is India's respect for animals in law isn't shared by everyone.

Yuyutsu - Eating babies?? - not sure about that - it would violate a few deep cultural principles in most cultures - dispassionately though it would address the supply and demand side at the same time - kudos.

Sometimes I quietly read and contemplate your comments - very interesting - thankyou.

So if we generally agree that population in each culture needs to be controlled what's the next step? (and it's possibly culture that does the controlling)

Do we have a world policy of encirclement / blockade around bad players countries / communities in the same way as bad players are managed in other circumstances? What do you all think??

When more recent data comes out, my bet is that it will show a slowdown in world population growth, and an indication that population growth has been levelling off for some time, and will reach a steady-state ZPG by 2100 or so. Birth numbers may even be falling, balanced only by the simple fact that, with better health services, people are living longer all around the world.

Even so, some contributors here seem a bit keen on exterminating certain populations, or at least limiting their capacity or right to have kids - or, presumably, live longer. Perhaps they will have the courage to come out and say which populations they have in mind.

By the way, Africa is about three and a half times bigger than Australia, ten times as big as India. It has barely half the population of India. So it has plenty of room for massive population growth ? Does that put the wind up you ? A lot more Africans ? Take your hoods off and suck it up, boys.

Joe

Loudmouth - Would you be able to point to the posts of those " keen on exterminating certain populations". Otherwise your claims may not have merit.

I agree that some here are "keen on ...limiting their capacity or right to have kids" - see their posts for what their reasons are.

Bad Dog !

People go fishing, they dangle a bait and hope for a bite. I suspect that's what some posters here are doing. Other people fly kites. Same purpose. It's not a big step from " ...limiting their capacity or right to have kids .... " to the "final sure-fire solution".

Just to clarify, the world's population growth is slowing down. Pretty soon, nobody will be able to use it to stoke hysteria. That may be hard for many to get used to. As countries introduce pension systems, there is less need to have many kids to support you in your old age. As health services improve, more kids survive, so a family doesn't have to have many kids just so enough will survive to look after people in their old age. So there is less need overall to have kids. So population growth declines.

As well, as women get better-educated, they delay or forgo getting married and having kids. So the population growth rate declines.

All of these things are happening. Some idiot suggested copying (or at least, some other unnamed countries copying) China's one-child policy. But any half-wit with any notions of demography could have seen that this would be disastrous in about two generations: far fewer young people, all getting used to having just one kid themselves or none at all (being used to being the one-and-only), and all those old people living longer, that have to be supported. So the working-to-dependent ratio massively shrinks. China will start to feel that in the next ten years, and massively in twenty or thirty. Vast numbers of great-grandparents with only one great-grand-child between them.

But keep going on about massive population growth in unnamed countries if it satisfies your inner nature.

Joe