Live long or die happy ?

Originally posted by KailassaThere are three things that have a massive effect on limiting the birth-rate:
The most effective is educating women.

Yes, very good points. Except realistically HUGE portions of the planet are breeding out of control, undergoing wars, famine, etc... There are already over 6 Billion people on the planet, and projections say there will be over 9 billion in 30 years.

Does anyone think we can fix all the problems and educate women and irradicate poverty and instill responsible governments everywhere, in every third world hellhole in the 30 years? LOL. No way.

Instead of focusing on lowering birthrates through education, "helping them" means cheap vaccines and more low grade food to increase population. I say low grade food because the iq is already pretty low in many of those countries, feeding the ever growing masses low quality unbalanced foods like rice will only turn out another generation of brain damaged individuals.

While China has been very proactive, they are about the only ones. There are no real attempts to curb population, but with the economy going downhill, and AIDS, and maybe global warming causing loss of farmlands, nature may take care of it (and nature will be a lot harsher than those evil people that would push birth control and sterilization).

Look at things from a different point of view for a moment.

Is the real problem overpopulation, or governments hiding technology that could help us spread that population to mars and the moon?

Is the real problem of getting old that you're going to get sick and die, or that pharmaceutical companies make more money from treating symptoms rather than the cures?

Is 70-90 really the oldest you can expect to get, or will technologies being developed now extend that to a healthy lifestyle of 150-200?

The saying "Die young and leave a good looking corpse" makes for a great giggle but do you really want to die young? Or would you rather live to see the things you can hardly imagine now, come to reality?

Challenge your misconceptions, stigmas, and preconceived notions, and you may find yourself thinking things that would surprise even yourself.

Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Look at things from a different point of view for a moment.

Is the real problem overpopulation, or governments hiding technology that could help us spread that population to mars and the moon?

The real problem is with overpopulation. Sheesh, those that think there are geniuses among us that could fix EVERY world problem, including death, and they just don’t feel like it truly amaze me.

Wake up, people are NOT that bright. People are the cause of most evil in our world but that doesn’t mean they are smart enough to fix every problem with “colonies on mars”.

What I just do not get is why these people that “love humanity” keep saying “lets breed all we can and just spread the wealth”. Lets NOT breed so much until you brilliant individuals can figure out HOW to spread everything equally and make everyone happy in your utopia. How about that! You fix it first!

Apparently some of you have some amazing, fantastic ideas, show us!

"live fast die young and leave a buetiful corpse" jim morrison

i just figuttred that was the best answer to the title question i could think of

reply to post by Sonya610


First of all I would chose to die happy. That being said I would like to live long because knowing I would chose to die happy means that I would live a happy long life given the right circumstances.

"Lets NOT breed so much until you brilliant individuals can figure out HOW to spread everything equally and make everyone happy in your utopia." - Sonya, I love how you worded that.

I agree with almost everything you are saying. I think spreading the wealth is a good thing though but I think it would be on terms that you could agree with. I'm not thinking spread the wealth as in givings someone the money to feed a larger family. I am thinking spread the wealth as in wealthier family's seem to get a better education. With that education in this case would equal a lower birth rate.

I am aware that we can make public education equal and still find some areas to come up lacking. The big problem to solve would be how to get these students in class and ready to learn. This is speaking strictly for the US, across the would the problem becomes even worse.

On a world level there is little we can do to address the problem. Programs such as this one can be a huge step yet a vary small one unless we can direct attention to the issue.