Overpopulation - How to solve the problem..?

Solutions to Overpopulation

Better Education: One of the first measures is to implement policies reflecting social change. Educating the masses helps them understand the need to have one or two children at the most. Families that are facing a hard life and choose to have four or five children should be discouraged. Family planning and efficient birth control can help in women making their own reproductive choices. Open dialogue on abortion and voluntary sterilization should be seen when talking about overpopulation.

Making People Aware of Family Planning: As population of this world is growing at a rapid pace, raising awareness among people regarding family planning and letting them know about serious after effects of overpopulation can help curb population growth. One of the best way is to let them know about various safe sex techniques and contraceptives methods available to avoid any unwanted pregnancy.

Tax Benefits or Concessions: Government of various countries might have to come with various policies related to tax exemptions to curb overpopulation. One of them might be to waive of certain part of income tax or lowering rates of income tax for those married couples who have single or two children. As we humans are more inclined towards money, this may produce some positive results.

Knowledge of Sex Education: Imparting sex education to young kids at elementary level should be must. Most parents feel shy in discussing such things with their kids which result in their children going out and look out for such information on internet or discuss it with their peers. Mostly, the information is incomplete which results in sexually active teenagers unaware of contraceptives and embarrassed to seek information about same. It is therefore important for parents and teachers to shed their old inhibitions and make their kids or students aware of solid sex education.

Totototo wrote:
I'm sorry I don't get why you think those solutions are not simple efficient suggestions.*

Totototo wrote:
So...what would be a fast way to deal with it? I don't like where this is going...

Totototo wrote:
So...what would be a fast way to deal with it? I don't like where this is going...

Totototo wrote: unfertilization (which I'm not sure it's a word)

Jakob wrote:
I do not want to discuss if a reduction of a population is needed today.
I want you to imagine it is and we have to find the best tools to do it more and less in a hurry.
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trafn wrote:
The Chinese did try a simple and efficient method of population control with their "One Child Policy." Sadly, it ran aground against their cultural preference for boys and led to a mass genocide of baby girls during the policy's reign. So even a seemingly "simple" idea like this can have unanticipated and catastrophic consequences.

Two-child policy is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children. It is used for some population groups in China, has previously been used in Vietnam, and has been discussed in the Philippines. Although not by law, in 1970s, citizens of Hong Kong were also highly encouraged to have two children as a limit, and it was used as part of the region's family planning strategies.

On 29 October 2015, Xinhua reported the change in the existing law to a two-child policy citing a statement from the Communist Party of China.

Jakob wrote:
So after a short well deserved break in an uncertain climate situation China may choose to squeeze it even further for another 30 years.

Can we think of something that can make it easier for them if they do so.?
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In Europe we help people to take poison if they are too unhappy with life.

trafn wrote:
Also, many cultures still see the "large family" as their main form of social security for their elders.

There is a history to using soap operas to cut fertility. It goes back to Mexico in the late 1970s, a time when the average Mexican woman had five or six babies and Mexico City was becoming the world's largest megacity. Miguel Sabido, then vice president of Televisa, the national TV network, developed a soap-opera format in which viewers were encouraged to relate to a character on the cusp of doing right or wrong—a "transitional character" whose ethical and practical dilemmas drove the plotlines.

His prime soap, or telenovela, Acompáñame ("Accompany Me") focused on the travails of a poor woman in a large family living in a run-down shack in a crime-ridden neighborhood. She wanted to break out and, after many travails and setbacks, did so by choosing contraception and limiting her family size. It was a morality tale, and nobody could mistake the message. The lessons were reinforced with an epilogue at the end of each episode, giving advice about family planning services.

Some accused Sabido of crude social engineering. But according to research by the country's National Family Planning Program, half a million women enrolled at family planning clinics while the soap was on, and contraceptive sales rose 23 percent in a year. A rash of similar soap operas with names such as Vamos Juntos ("We Go Together") and Nosotros las Mujeres ("We the Women") ran in Mexico throughout the 1980s. They were credited, at least anecdotally, with helping slash Mexican fertility rates. Thomas Donnelly, USAID's local man at the time, concluded that they "have made the single most powerful contribution to the Mexican population success story."

Voluntary population control can include:

1. Condoms.
2. Hormonal treatments like birth control pills.
3. Waiting longer to have children.
4. Having fewer children.
5. Not having any children.
6. Same gender sexual activity.
7. Voluntary temporary/reversible sterilization.
8. Voluntary permanent sterilization.
9. Voluntary adherence to a mono-sexual lifestyle (masturbation).
10. Voluntary adherence to an asexual lifestyle.

Tim the plumber wrote:
https://overpopulationisamyth.com/

There is no such problem.