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cool tree bro
Jul 27, 2010
kill the op

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Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
i think we've established by now that i am definitely going to be gruesomely slaughtered as part of this program.

cool tree bro
Jul 27, 2010
I mean kill the op

right

now

Phlairdon
Apr 15, 2003

If you can't stand up you can't do war!

cool tree bro posted:

Kill yourself.

Oh no, you're not going to get rid of me that easily.

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
pretty easy just have one kid instead of two wow problem solved

BlancoNino
Apr 26, 2010

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

pretty easy just have one kid instead of two wow problem solved

Or adopt and avoid all that having a baby bullshit.

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
Isaac Asimov, who was very smart before he died, worked out how many people could live on this planet. His calculations showed him that, if all the people lived like average Americans (generally considered a high standard of living), then the planet could support perhaps 2 billion people. If we were satisfied with less (the average American would not be) then, we could fit in a few million more.

This leaves us with a problem. What to do with the excess population? According to Ike, it was a simple matter. We can reduce the birth rate until we eventually fall to the 2 billion mark through attrition, or we can radically increase the death rate. He figured that that would either be facilitated by wars (small and slow loss of life) or a major plague brought about by crappy conditions for most human (potentially major and fast loss of life).

Then he concluded that the most humane way of lowering the population was to lower the birth rate. And the easiest way to lower the birth rate was to increase the standard of living (thus reducing the need for big families), and reducing the influence of religions which demand large families.

Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Apr 29, 2015

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead
Down with Mormons and those checks for having dependents.

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe
There is simply too much technology. We need a global EMP to knock us back into the 1900s.

ninotoreS
Aug 20, 2009

Thanks for the input, Jeff!
nuclear war

famine/drought from global warming or whatever

super bacteria / virus

yellowstone erupting

etc


it's only a matter of time before the global population culling event, whatever form it ends up taking

ecosystems always find a way to curb-stomp any population that gets too large for its own good, if said population fails to migrate to new environments with new resources. but our brightest minds are more interested in designing new smartphones than researching and developing interstellar space travel, so we're boned

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS
good news,op:

http://www.ozy.com/acumen/world-population-decline/4357

but if that's not fast enough for you we could always shoot China into the sun

ninotoreS posted:

nuclear war

famine/drought from global warming or whatever

super bacteria / virus

yellowstone erupting

these are good too

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead
California is only a testing ground.

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George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





everyone in the world can apparently fit in the size of texas so move everyone here so everyone can have an equally miserable experience of living in texas. world peace

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