Day by day the size of the human population is growing and exceeding what the Earths capabilities for sustaining us all. Seeing as the human population continues to grow at rates that are way too fast for the natural life-death cycle could we consider the notation that disease are like the natural breaks to the human population machine? Also with the newest outbreak of the swine flu which can be mixed with both human and avian flu, maybe with the idea that we can pass diseases to each other than all in all we each come together to form nature.
If you look back in history you see instances of plagues, famines, and weather conditions that each have altered the human population allowing for the 'fittest' gene pools to continue on. However, I think that instead of relying on the natural brakes we should take the matters of population into our own hands so that we can try to fix it before it turns into a bigger. We see families such as the Duggars which are pretty much baby machines, who say that they will have as many children as God will best them with. When the bible was written long ago they had the ability to have larger families but, in today’s world we physical don’t have the space to be set forth and multiple as the bible stated. I’m not saying throw the bible by the waste sides I just think that we need to evaluate our population growth with regards to the time rather than what a books says that was written for another time to follow with regards for population.
I might not be reading this right, but it seems like you are suggesting that we implement some type of population control. I really don't think that forcing people to have less children is something anyone has the right to do, even though it is a policy in some places, like China (which last time I heard has a 1 child per family law). I don't know what the bible has to do with it, but it just seems wrong to me to enforce population control. Maybe population is a problem, but there has to be some other solution.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure James is right that if some form of population control was put in place, people would not be happy. Maybe another option is to expand to other planets? I think I read that the first gardens were about to be planted on the moon very soon.
ReplyDeleteI feel that our population as a whole is up to individuals to control. Birth control and abortions are already two ways that our society has to control population growth. People, I feel, need to be better informed of what it means to have too many people living on the earth and what will happen in the future.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that population control is an acceptable movement, but it would be hard to implement and many would be against it. A population of insects and other animals can only reach a certain carrying capacity before it starts to decline for some reason or another. I don't see why this wouldn't happen with humans and it is only a matter of how.
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