Pun intended.
I think it's time we (North America) implement a "one child per family rule", or require parents to get legal permission to bring a child into this world. Unfortunately, this likely won't happen until we reach a global population of around 9 billion, because people are too fucking greedy and stupid to realize we can't maintain this level of consumption for much longer. Governments and corporations also maintain that we need to breed more because, with the current level of technology, population growth is needed to maintain our luxurious way of life. Many people are clearly just not capable of raising a child. I'm frequently hearing about parents beating their kids to death because they deleted a game save, or leaving them to starve while playing WoW and farmville.
Selective breeding would be a good choice, since it seems to be the poor people who are genetically predisposed to being complete fucking morons that can't bring themselves to pull out or use a fucking condom, and as a result have a family of 13 by age 32. This would help alleviate the population problem, and might actually get some people entering the workforce in the next 20 years that aren't destined to flip burgers or pump gas.
When I hear that the birth rate is declining, I think "Good. It's about fucking time". This is a huge issue, and it's only going to get worse in the next decade unless some restrictions are put in place. I mean, for Christ's sake, since 1960 the population has gone up 4 billion, 4 fucking BILLION!
Since there aren't any other comments yet I figured I'd chime in and say: you're not alone with these thoughts.
ReplyDeleteyou need to get back into fansub ripping...maybe put together a group so its a little less stressful (id help)
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons why I stopped is I just became tired of anime in general. The only anime I can stand anymore are Zetsubou Sensei and Hellsing. Everything else just makes me roll my eyes at the generic bullshit they continue to spoon feed those willing to eat it up.
ReplyDeleteCheck out vhemt.org (i know this is really late) I completely agree that this is a current problem that NEEDS to be combated. Look at the handful of species of large cats, and then consider how each on is either almost extinct, threatened, or vulnerable. All because of less prey, more people, more poaching.
ReplyDeleteAnd to top it off, like you have added, higher authorities LIKE the fact that more people are breeding younger naive people who will be conformed to an oblivious and self hurting society. Just remember, we can change this together.
Right you are, Alexandra. So many problems would be solved by population control. Pollution, extinction of species due to lack of habitat, world hunger. The list goes on.
ReplyDeleteThere's a show called Utopia which came out last year that you should check out. It has something to say about this situation.