It has been suggested our world is over populated. If true? What can we do to combat this?

Best Answer

Have fewer children:)

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The obvious answer.

Other Answers (20)

• Education and emancipation of women, religious acceptance of family planning as a humane and positive thing and stable economic and social development in developing countries. Given the CHOICE, many women choose to follow education, careers and personal or financial goals rather than being enslaved baby machines, they simply don%26#039;t have the choice in the situations they%26#039;re in. As we can see from the example of more developed countries, we have smaller families with more support and stability and a decrease in population. Some families will choose many children, some will choose none, but the overall effect is controlled population based on family choice and resources without recourse to state-sponsored fertility police or anything horrible like that. That%26#039;s what I think anyway.
• possibly get the hungry people to eat the poor people, then thats most of Africa and Asia. Instantly 2 billion people less in the world.
  
  seriously now we need to find a planet like our own to live on.
  My biology teacher feels that over population won%26#039;t be a problem for long as he sees us like bacteria. Slow population growth to start with, then shoots up really quickly (were about 3/4 through this stage according to him), slowly levels then dies very quickly.
• That%26#039;s going to be the real human problem in the future, over population. The only real way to solve it before is starts is to try and get people to have no more than 2-3 kids each.
  
  The issue comes when 2 people start having 4-6 kids(I happens a lot) for several generations.
  
  Just imagine how many more billions of people there would be if the wars of just the last few hundred years never happened....
• Wars, wars and more wars. Spay or neuter your lover. Hire more serial killers. Genocide. All of the things we have come to know as wrong, sinful or utterly disgusting. These are the solutions. Death to the overpopulation, or send them into outer space to colonize somewhere else.
• its nothing to do about this. producing is a gift from god. population will continue to grow and grow. we have no control over that just the lord up above. i love to see population. its hard for me to have children so god bless the people who can and who cant. let population rock on
• in my opinion nothing because how are you going to stop the growth of population. It is impossible to do so. What will end the answer to your question is when Jesus comes, the end of the world.
• If you%26#039;ve ever been to a shopping mall on a Saturday, you%26#039;ll know the world (at least the western world) is overpopulated. I personally am combating this by not having any children.
• Well...then the USA has been attempting to rectify the overpopulation for years by utilizing its penchant for bombing brown skinned people all over the world.
• This is not popular but we are going to have to initiate age limits and people are going to have to have small families. There is no other way.
• i think the world does it naturally with the tsumanis and hurricanes that kill many people every once in a while. but thats just my opinion.
• Sacrifice Chavs and have the community gather round for the event, just like the olden days with hanging....would probably lessen crime too....
• Generaly the birth rate falls when the standard of living rises. Better education and greater autonomy for women helps.