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Originally Posted by Gary L
There's about 6.7 billion people on earth at the moment. what amount would it have to be to become a problem of there being too many?
What would have to be done when it became a problem?
educate people not to have too many children? make it law that you can't have any?
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Some say it's already overpopulated. By around 2040 the population is expected to go over 10 billion.
Education won't work. Ever noticed it's normally the less well educated people in western countries who have large numbers of children (Excluding those who do for religious beliefs) and people in 3rd world countries hardly have any education and rely on large families to look after them in their old age.
Make it law... been tried in China and found to work in some ways, but sociologically failed. Male children are highly prized. Females aren't and it's thought that familes that already have female children in them will have a higher than average rate of abortion or infant mortality. They also project a shortfall of over 30 million women in the country by 2020, which is predicted to result in social unrest.