Just mix alittle Gaybecome in the water supply, soon only those who subsist on Beer or Bottle water will be straight.

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You sound Malthusian perhaps you should read the "Population Bomb"  by Paul Elhrich.  Anyway, turns out as marginal productivity increases and land is constant we have a diminishing returns effect.  But if we have technology that constantly advances then idea all goes down like a sack of shit.

The Chinese have done just that, and the results so far are disasterous. 

Eugenics has long had a strong relationship with the overpopulation crowd, after all, someone has to play god.

The Chinese apply the law equally to all families.

Europe did it and now finds its own population at risk. 

Nothing works better than opportunity. Europes negative population growth has a lot to do with economics. It also allows new cultures to come in and mix into a static culture, since the popultions will continue to grow globally, this means we can all look forward to new cultures mixing with ours. (Just as it has always been). (Europe's population isn't "at risk" in any human sense, it will be replenished, just not by the preferred races and creeds of some bigots).

However, you're right, overpopulation is a severe problem. Perhaps its time for a Global Flood, eh?  That would make more than few people on this Forum giddy with glee!

Seriously, though, you have to give China credit for making a tough decision. As much as it caused female infantcide, it kept their population lower than it would have been.  Of course, now the sheer numbers are becoming impossible to manage.

I don't think there are policies that can fix the problem (in terms of pop. control), war, disease and famine will be much more effective, as sad as that is.  We in the upper classes and richer nations have little to fear. We will always take the resources fo the poorer and defensless.

However, we will fill tomes on how we have moral responsibility for this and that, and we should do this and that, etc....

I think the population problem will be solved through economics. The US is looking at a shortage of workers after the baby boomers. And the baby boomers are mostly due to advances in health care but people still following the tradition of a large family because of high death rates.

The economics plays in because almost every country has followed the same population growth based on economic growth. When countries are poor and health care is bad people have more babies, but they also die at higher rates. As the economy and health care improve initially families remain large, but then people realize that they no longer need a large family and the larger the family the bigger the economic burden (which isn't the case when people are primarily farmers in an undeveloped economy). After this population growth shrinks and the elderly population grows (this is where Europe, Japan, USA and some others are at right now). Japan and Russia have incentives for families to have babies because of a shrinking population. I really think through economic development and waiting until after each nations baby boom generation that population will stabilize.