World’s population to fall for first time since the Black Death

I'll take care of it

Well, an aptitude test sure wouldn't hurt.

The truth is, once we outgrow the religious imperative to just crank out babies like it's a contest, and make it legal and easy for anyone to have sex without worrying about impregnation, then there would be little need to regulate reproduction.

It's not really about who gets to reproduce, it's about infant mortality.

Pre-1900 there were just around a billion people, yet it was very common to have 7-10 children. Most didn't make it to reproductive age, so the population wasn't growing at that same rate.

Now infant mortality is low, very low in developed countries, yet it is still common to have 4-6 children. Nearly all of whom will reproduce.

Realisticly, no one needs more than one children. Two would be generous. More than two is excessive.

We must all come to a consensus on how it is decided or overpopulation will diminish the resources needed to survive

1. Enshrine medical rights for women's bodies that allows them to abort pregnancy, and allows doctors to make that decision for them in case of early complication leading to emergency (a conscious woman not at risk would never be forced to accept treatment that would endanger a viable fetus, but a nonviable fetus would never lead to undue risks in a more ideal world than what we live in).

2. We'll start with a democratic system of laws with a philosophy of marginal satisfaction offset by an aversion to suffering taking priority, a good first step would be to simply incentivize education and remaining childless, perhaps with tax credits or guaranteed income welfare.

3. Introducing or reintroducing publicly funded community buildings for education on human reproduction and a distributor of contraceptives.

4. Then, if the majority agrees, we can strip felons of reproduction rights with the outlined and protected by law ability to sue the state in assumption of prejudice based on protected class. Finally, punish people with excessive childbirthing habits, like more than five or six, perhaps with fines and risk of prison time as well as a three strike system for upgrading to felony.

Or at least that is usually how it works. Definitely cannot skip the order in this, though, the education step needs to come first or second and could probably solve this issue alone single-handedly. If we implemented this in reverse order then it would probably just end up in history books thirty years from now as "that time we almost lost entire demographics to racist eugenics" and that would just be awful.

Thanos

Capitalism. You need money to feed kids. People are having less kids mainly because today having a kid is too expensive.

I'm speaking from the context of human survival. I support the continued existence of the human race. You're speaking from a more nihilistic standpoint than I prefer, but i do agree with what you said in general.

Though, forcing everyone to live in DoubleTexas sounds like hell on Earth.

i seem to recall that you could fit 8billion people into a single city double the size of texas

Do you want Mega-City One? Because that’s how you get Mega-City One.

Those twits are at best closet conservatives.

Of course, when the Black Death happened, the world in general was much smaller. People weren’t quite as aware as to what was happening elsewhere. And given that things like infant mortality were much higher, life expectancy was lower, no real contraception etc… people really had no real incentive not to procreate again. So they did.

These days we’re generally more aware and more in control. I like to think that if corona HAD wiped out half the planet, the survivors would see clear benefits: less overcrowding, nature is restoring, the air is cleaner, etc etc. You saw some of that during the pandemic when, for example, the canals in Venice turned crystal clear because of lack of humans.

I’d flip that coin right now. Whoever lives inherits a paradise. Use it wisely and learn from previous mistakes.

Stop down voting him, he's right. Earth day is on April 22, so we would need to shrink earths population to a third in order to make our current way of living sustainable... (Shrink the rich first)