For some reason it's ok to criticize someone's eating habits, but not their reproductive ones.
It does of course get turned into "this politician want to abort poor peoples babies", but unfortunately that's where we are at as world.
I do agree this should be part of the solution.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/05/bernie_sa...
edit: while I was typing this the parent got compared to Hitler, so there you go. Simply making birth control available is not eugenics, that is what I have heard people suggest
It's not a problem in the developed world. And it's not a problem in the best organized of the developing. So population control would amount to developed nations regulating poor nations' populations' reproduction, which is a difficult campaign to run on.
For some reason yes... like remember the guy with the funny looking mustache?
The problem is everyone who makes some form of this argument tends to think it's the other people there should be fewer of.
Anyway your other point is great: the rich and socialist countries are naturally controlling the population by reduced birth rates, so when someone mentions a comment like that they specifically mean poor and / or brown people.
To get 'natural' population reduction, we need a worldwide policy of wealth, health care, and sexual education. For the last point, it's important to note that it requires deprogramming. To be very blunt, the Catholic Church has brainwashed generations to reproduce as much as they can. That damage has to be undone.
>> To get 'natural' population reduction, we need a worldwide policy of wealth, health care, and sexual education. For the last point, it's important to note that it requires deprogramming. To be very blunt, the Catholic Church has brainwashed generations to reproduce as much as they can. That damage has to be undone.
So I'm a racist for bringing up population as an issue, but you get to point to policy solutions and blaming religion?
Thanks.
Anyone that thinks that "population control" is a good idea is a eugenicist inviting genocide. You would have to be racist to suggest it without seeing it as violent and evil.
There's no wiggle-room here. You made a Hitler-tier suggestion on how we deal with human beings living on this Earth. Reflect upon what you said a little and reconsider how you view the third world.
I don't think anyone reasonably accused you of racism.
The reality of demographics mean population control amounts to rich, predominantly white nations telling poor, predominantly brown nations to have fewer kids. The problem isn't race per se. It's the racial discrepancy making most solutions politically untenable.
Nobody argues that the USA is overpopulated and needs population control, but tons of people argue that the entire continent of Africa is overpopulated and needs population control. It couldn't be more obvious that demographics play a role in who has population control enforced, and who doesn't.
You could just as easily allow people from "overpopulated Africa" to move to the USA and balance things out, but it would be easier for racists to force abortions and sterilizations on Africans than allow black-skinned immigrants to relocate into their communities.
If you're deliberately trying to prevent certain demographics of people from being born, that's genocide. This notion that genocide requires mass-murder is ignorant and dangerous. Eugenics is genocide, full stop.
And no, "population control" cannot ever be implemented equitably, don't even start.
China [1]. Famously. Also, contraceptives.
The USA throws away nearly as much food as it eats. Resource availability isn't the issue - resource distribution is.
And since when was it uncommon for people to criticize people's reproductive habits? Eugenicists have been trying as hard as possible to keep black and brown people from reproducing for centuries now, and ethno-nationalists view race mixing as a mortal sin.
Generally we stick away from these kinds of arguments, due to how morally reprehensible they are. If you think the world was better or easier to manage when there were only 3 billion people on it, that's purely a matter of opinion, but there's literally only one way we ever go back to that population size, and that's through genocide, so no, we don't entertain these ideas.
Exponential grow will overtake any and all efforts that reduce a problem by a constant factor like the 4x proposed by changing eating habits.