Overpopulation

[tanless1]

If the globe is overpopulated and we all need to be controld, why are we not leagilizing drug use(no,I'm not looking to use again) encourage alcohol abuse and smoking by not taxing.....rather we are looking at single payer health care so goverment (elliet)can decide where health care dollars are spent , and more importantly NOT spent. I submit that it would be more cost effecient to subscribe to darwinian rather than orwelling form of evolution.
(This is not my endorsement of evolution vs creationism)

[Pittsburgh]

If the globe is overpopulated and we all need to be controld, why are we not leagilizing drug use(no,I'm not looking to use again) encourage alcohol abuse and smoking by not taxing.....rather we are looking at single payer health care so goverment (elliet)can decide where health care dollars are spent , and more importantly NOT spent. I submit that it would be more cost effecient to subscribe to darwinian rather than orwelling form of evolution.
(This is not my endorsement of evolution vs creationism)

These are the ramblings of a madman.

[Dr Steve]

If the globe is overpopulated and we all need to be controld, why are we not leagilizing drug use(no,I'm not looking to use again) encourage alcohol abuse and smoking by not taxing.....rather we are looking at single payer health care so goverment (elliet)can decide where health care dollars are spent , and more importantly NOT spent. I submit that it would be more cost effecient to subscribe to darwinian rather than orwelling form of evolution.
(This is not my endorsement of evolution vs creationism)


Well, your underlying point is a good one: we cannot continue to sustain the levels of population growth that this world has seen since we became the top predator on the food chain. People resist being told by "outsiders" that they need to quit screwing and having babies. Birth control is viewed by suspicion in a lot of countries anyway. Now, I know ultimately this problem will control itself as it always does when a species outstrips its ability to sustain its population, but it will be a DISASTER. The way we're going, no matter what we do, Darwinian factors will kick in eventually anyway when food and water become scarce. It'll be less evident in the "first world", but we'll all be affected.

Oh, and the sun will turn into a red giant in 5 billion years and will engulf the earth's orbit. Ultimately (and this is off topic) we need to get off this planet if we have any chance of long-term (counted in billions of years) survival. :-)

[sailor]

we just need to spread the population out. there is local overpopulation, not global.

[Marc with a c]

we just need to spread the population out. there is local overpopulation, not global.

you first.