The Chinese didn’t need a one child per couple, forced abortion program. They just needed to join the modern world and let its citizens choose to limit their reproduction voluntarily.

The predicted population level is well within the means of the developed world to feed quite well. The one thing that would lead to disaster would be to end further development in the third world. Subsistence farmers who produce as many children as they can to have more field hands are on a dismal path. Increasing the presence of modern agriculture with more of the population free topursue other forms of employment is how to save the future.

Let me type it for you s.l.o.w.l.y. Erhlich has been proven WRONG!

Continuing to argue for his point of view makes you look s.t.u.p.i.d.

There should not be any number of children allowed- only what you choose to have. In other words, there is no allowing or disallowing: you don’t get to say for other people.

More prosperity is the only key to population problems. The only thing most people have in the 3rd world is the (nutritionally limited) strength of their backs. They breed like rabbits to have some percentage make it to adulthood to support them in turn with labour. Until people are well-enough fed, well-enough educated, and prosperous enough to plan for the future rather than simply trying to survive, the population will continue to grow. One fo the worst things that could happen is a sudden population reduction. These things need to be graduated.

Population growth is already slowing, on a global basis. It will eventually taper off and decline when the economic incentive exists. That will be long before Malthusian cannibalism takes over, as long as we continue to embrace technological progress and principles of liberty.

Clearly, doc, you haven’t traveled much. The problem with people getting enough to eat in the third world is not because our natural resources are so much better, it’s how efficiently we utilize them. The majority of mankind’s problems are created by cultural habits which have become (or in some cases always were) pathological. The problem with people in the 3rd world not being healthy and propserous are due to systems which siphon capital (human and monetary) away from rational usages and growth, and into hoarding out of scarcity mentality. Strongmen steal everyone blind, and once they start, can’t get off the tiger, so they continue long past all personal utility. Authoritarians (like yourself) feel morally justified in forcing people to change, all the more so when they don’t comply willingly, with what YOU say is in everyone’s best interest (except theirs).

Dr. Busher- you might want to research a little, maybe watch this kinda cutesy video:
http://romishgraffiti.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/debunking-overpopulation/

I’m thinking mebbie misanthropes just like the idea of being able to get rid of people, make those fools behave rationally.

Hm, sounds like Girl Genius’ “Madboys”…..

Personally, I believe that the world is overpopulated from an aesthetic stabndpoint. But Aesthetics is not a valid reason to espouse policies like forced sterilization, and maintaining crushing poverty through communist redistribution. And a population crash is just as bad as a boom- because when the skilled portion dies off, it leaves the rest stripping the tree bark to feed themselves. This actually happens in north Korea- people are ruining the environment there out of deserate hunger, when prosperity is a few socio-economic changes away.

I’d also say it’s an indictment on the Christian church and “Christian education” that this guy barely gets noticed as well.