This will start some discussion I'm sure.

aussie_paul · Guru

This will start some discussion I'm sure.

LLD · Guru

I have a cunning plan here.

1. All kids should be sterilised at birth. To get it reversed, one has to pass a test. Rather like a car licence.
2. If later in life the person shows that he/she cannot look after children, they are sterilised again. Rather like losing you car licence.

rgren2 · Guru

LLD wrote:
I have a cunning plan here.

1. All kids should be sterilised at birth. To get it reversed, one has to pass a test. Rather like a car licence.
2. If later in life the person shows that he/she cannot look after children, they are sterilised again. Rather like losing you car licence.

Why not just have retrospective abortion?

aussie_paul · Guru

Another one from approx 1988 I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaobW8UNXo

Aussie Paul. smile

-- Edited by aussie_paul on Friday 9th of November 2018 01:43:13 PM

Tony Bev · Guru

It is food for thought, Paul

It is a pity that we can not talk of politics

My observations from being one of the baby boomers, born 1947 is:-

Basically, no one saw us coming

There were not enough hospital beds, (I was born at home)

We left school, and there were not enough jobs, (I was unemployed for six months)

Now we are retired, there is not enough money, to give all of us an old age pension, (I receive nothing)

In my opinion, it is the same with the population explosion. Basically no one saw it coming

Edit to say that the following link to a news article, may give the population explosion, a breather

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

-- Edited by Tony Bev on Friday 9th of November 2018 11:26:11 PM

Yuglamron · Guru

I have just re-read Dan Brown's book "Inferno" Well worth a read.

Deals with "Culling" the human race before we breed ourselves into collapse. The Middle Ages had the Black Plague, Took out over a third of mankind, was the aids epidemic a failed culling of the human race? Ebola sprang out of nowhere. Another failed try.

Conspiracy theorists bread and butter.

It is basically saying exactly the same thing as David Attenborough. Took how many hundreds of thousands of years to get to 7 Billion and we expect to reach 20 Billion in the next 100 years IF we don't pollute ourselves out of existence.

LLD · Guru

Wars & diseases used control our population. Not any longer - and we are living longer.

Recoup · Guru

Yuglamron wrote:

"Culling" the human race before we breed ourselves into collapse.

Did Cancer just came out of the blue ? Cheers

aussie_paul · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
It is food for thought, Paul

It is a pity that we can not talk of politics

My observations from being one of the baby boomers, born 1947 is:-

Basically, no one saw us coming

There were not enough hospital beds, (I was born at home)

We left school, and there were not enough jobs, (I was unemployed for six months)

Now we are retired, there is not enough money, to give all of us an old age pension, (I receive nothing)

In my opinion, it is the same with the population explosion. Basically no one saw it coming

Edit to say that the following link to a news article, may give the population explosion, a breather

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

-- Edited by Tony Bev on Friday 9th of November 2018 11:26:11 PM

Very interesting Tony, thanks.

Aussie Paul. smile

LLD · Guru

Recoup wrote:
Yuglamron wrote:

"Culling" the human race before we breed ourselves into collapse.

Did Cancer just came out of the blue ? Cheers
I think cancer is a relatively new term. It was called consumption and was used to describe any death where cause was not really known It is only new medical advances that cancer can actually be determined successfully. One of my great-grandfathers died at age 56 of "consumption" which was eventually called cancer.

rockylizard · Guru

LLD wrote:
Recoup wrote:
Yuglamron wrote:
"Culling" the human race before we breed ourselves into collapse.
Did Cancer just came out of the blue ? Cheers
I think cancer is a relatively new term. It was called consumption and was used to describe any death where cause was not really known It is only new medical advances that cancer can actually be determined successfully. One of my great-grandfathers died at age 56 of "consumption" which was eventually called cancer.

Gday...

Consumption: An old and once common term for wasting away of the body, particularly from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Other old TB terms include the King's evil or scrofula (TB of the lymph nodes in the neck) and Pott's disease (TB of the spine).

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=19050

Cheers - John

Dickodownunder · Guru

F.

LLD · Guru

John.

I do remember that consumption is now TB. Should have looked that up to confirm. But I think there is a relationship between TB and lung cancer and can be confused. I'm guessing when my great-grandfather died, confusion between the two was probably common.

LLD · Guru

China has a history of "culling". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_of_landlords_under_Mao_Zedong

They also culled all drug dealers and users in the late 1940s. Got rid of their drug problem for a while.

the rocket · Guru

LLD wrote:
China has a history of "culling". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_of_landlords_under_Mao_Zedong

They also culled all drug dealers and users in the late 1940s. Got rid of their drug problem for a while.

Wonder how they deal with it now

LLD · Guru

the rocket wrote:
LLD wrote:
China has a history of "culling". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_of_landlords_under_Mao_Zedong

They also culled all drug dealers and users in the late 1940s. Got rid of their drug problem for a while.

Wonder how they deal with it now

Shoot 'em. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China