Here are the issues that I would like to address:
1) Sustainability
2) Minimizing harmful impacts on the natural environment
3) High standards of living for everybody
4) Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions
5) Minimizing the depletion of exhaustible resources
6) End the destruction of natural habitats like rain forests, grasslands, wetlands, and lakes, rivers and oceans
7) Fishing should be sustainable
8) Minimize the extinction of other species due to human activity (possible exceptions for harmful species).
9) Minimize pollution
Population control should be humane, using tools like family planning, and ideally voluntary. In most advanced economies, the rate of reproduction has fallen below replacement rate, so I believe that the population could be gradually reduced to a sustainable size without using any inhumane methods. Just give women and men control over their own bodies and reproductive choices. The tools for this already exist. I believe that all forms of birth control should be free and/or affordable and easily accessible for those who want it.
I don't know if there's an ideal number, but I suspect that it's much fewer than what we have now. Maybe 1 or 2 or 3 billion? And could such a population be maintained for thousands or tens of thousands of years or more, and still achieve the above goals?
1) Sustainability
2) Minimizing harmful impacts on the natural environment
3) High standards of living for everybody
4) Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions
5) Minimizing the depletion of exhaustible resources
6) End the destruction of natural habitats like rain forests, grasslands, wetlands, and lakes, rivers and oceans
7) Fishing should be sustainable
8) Minimize the extinction of other species due to human activity (possible exceptions for harmful species).
9) Minimize pollution
Population control should be humane, using tools like family planning, and ideally voluntary. In most advanced economies, the rate of reproduction has fallen below replacement rate, so I believe that the population could be gradually reduced to a sustainable size without using any inhumane methods. Just give women and men control over their own bodies and reproductive choices. The tools for this already exist. I believe that all forms of birth control should be free and/or affordable and easily accessible for those who want it.
I don't know if there's an ideal number, but I suspect that it's much fewer than what we have now. Maybe 1 or 2 or 3 billion? And could such a population be maintained for thousands or tens of thousands of years or more, and still achieve the above goals?
via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2PdAVRs
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