Bix

Most sources estimate the worlds population to be over 7 billion.

More and more people are coming to the conclusion that the growing population is in fact THE largest threat to the survival of mankind.

Carbon emission savings are great but the natural increase in population outweighs the saving because the user base is increasing so much

So what is to be done?

Routinely execute a few million?

Compulsory abortions?

Knob harvesting?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Thermonuclear War. Sorted

Bix

I was thinking more on the lines of something that would allow survival.

artep

...I like the way ya thinkin

Swerv-o

Yup. The rapidly increasing population is the huge woolly mammoth in the room when it comes to climate change/sustainability etc. It is completely unsustainable, and is driving many of the issues that we see today.

But where to begin - that's a good question. The Chinese have failed with their one family-one child policy, and are about to rescind it. The pope won't let people use contraception, and people will normally choose fertility treatment over adoption.

Maybe mass sterilisations or something.


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Pollyana

I quite liked that one too

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Genetically engineered virus that only kills Chinese?

Swerv-o

One that only kills Catholics would probably be better. Fillin' up the world with children they can't afford to feed...


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Bix

A bit harsh to single out one race.

Possibly a selective microbial attack on left-handers?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

..and the Chinese aren't !!

There are billions of the fookers.. statistically there is probably one in my house now.. probably in the spare bedroom.

Bix

Bit of an eye opener............

http://www.breathingearth.net/

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Yellow peril.. we need something like myxomatosis for them.

Bix

As long as it doesn't affect the rabbits.

If we knob harvest there will be a major requirement for rabbits.

roaringmouse

In what ways is it the largest threat, according to "more and more people"?

artep

Oi!