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What do you think is the best way to decrease population?

Nuclear war.

Any kind of war and disastrous kind of event that actually catches the attention of all kinds of group in the world, it will be an chain of event

Any kind of global war with modern tech involved

Any kind of war or natural disaster can be caused to decrease population.nuclear war, tsunami are the example for that.

my opinion anyway
1. combat free sex (because the beginning is also from there right)
2. Intensify the extension of family planning into remote areas
3. young unmarried
4.apply rich system in china, but this problem our country have not developed hence no good also, rich impression not human life. So yes maybe applied 10 to 15 years again
5.improve the nation of Indonesia by increasing capita, so people prefer to work and busy.
thank you very much my suggestion

The best way to reduce population is by family planning. Each family has only two children, which is enough to raise children. Previous population explosion affected the quality of life of each family. But the population is now stable. They do not have children as before, so gradually the population will decrease a lot.

decreasing population in some countries are problems ,community with a higher proportion of older inhabitants may be less attractive to businesses, which may additionally have difficulty finding suitable staff locally. Economic decline and less productive society is one of the biggest treat if the population decreases, so we have to maintain and observe the population growth.

Population decline is a major problem in the world, especially in densely populated countries. for example, China or India the population problem is very important. Population has a strong influence on the economy of the country. Managers need to have policies to increase population reduction rationally to develop the economy.

1. Women empowerment
2. Distribute contraceptives
3. Decreasing the importance of marriage
4. Plague
5. War

Simply simple, increase the retirement age, raise prices and make a huge exchange rate. Here's to you a recipe that people will not live and reproduce, but will think how to survive.

That is going to wipe out the entire population as a result, even those whose countries are not nuked, they are still going suffer the effects of all those radiations from the Nuclear Bombs and their deaths are going to be even more painful as a result.

Yeah, basically this. We could distinct two ways/methodology, violent and non violent.
First of your 3 points are psychological types of warfare, definitely non violent.  
Now, your point nr4 is somewhere between the two. Depends of the nature of plague, planned or natural.
If natural than we cant categorise this as an act of any specific nature. It just happens.
@point5:
IMO the "best way" our technology could offer is the usage of autonomous equipment. Drones.
Small and agile, palm sized, flying quadrocopter equipped with one or two bullets. Simple and cheap machine of global annihilation.
Nuclear weapons are so last year...drone better - as Ivan said. Clean, quick, radiation and destruction free.
Imagine what 100K of such "toys" could do to a city center.

... of livestock for human consumption = educate about plant-based diets and decrease industrial production of livestock = less pressure on the Earth system

The "Nine Population Strategies to Stop Short of 9 Billion" are as follows:
"Provide universal access to safe and effective contraceptive options for both sexes."
"Guarantee education through secondary school for all, especially girls."
"Eradicate gender bias from law, economic opportunity, health, and culture."
"Offer age-appropriate sexuality education for all students."
"End all policies that reward parents financially based on the number of children they have."
"Integrate lessons on population, environment, and development into school curricula at multiple levels."
"Put prices on environmental costs and impacts."
"Adjust to an aging population instead of boosting childbearing through government incentives and programs."
"Convince leaders to commit to stabilizing population growth through the exercise of human rights and human development."

Reads like something Peter Griffin would say.
Another option is poisoning KFC chicken. That would cause some ethnic cleansing. ;D


Some effects of a nuclear war might not be that bad. Just think of the possibilities!

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In some populated countries, decreasing the number of population is necessary but in some free countries I think it's okay to have more than two children. I think that a better idea to decrease population is through family planning. Planning is always a necessity in all aspects of life. Is it important for us to prepare ourselves in every battle and situations in life.

Wait a minute! They say that the world is overpopulated and we should not have many children like the Chinese with their one child policy.
The facts show that the population of Western countries is aging and shrinking it's happening in Europe,US, Australia and UK.

We won't need to decrease the population because the population is going to cap out at 11-12b and that will be that. It is simple mathematics and basically people will die at the same rate of birth meaning we won't surpass that number unless we start having sex like bunnies.

I would not say that there is a population decline,but rather increase,in recent years especially, the number greatly increased,only one China and India how many people,and many are not even counted,so it goes on the contrary increase

To decrease population is not an easy task. Every year in 5/10, five died while 10 are born.  It is really hard to reduce the population.  From what I see in the future it would be a crowded place.  

Well, there is only one way possible of doing it and that is by killing people in one way or another.

But if you are interested in a solution TO DECREASE THE RATE OF INCREASING POPULATION then a better way does not Exist. If people really want more children then they can consider adopting. On the other hand, if they are only intrested in lovemaking then they should use contraceptives.

Best way to decrease the population in our world is war. If there is war the world will surely decrease its population in an instant. Because many people will die because there will be a nuclear war in countries that are in war. And maybe mankind will go to extinction if not stopped the war.

It might sound horrible but I think weather calamities, earthquake, tsunami etc. are god's way of controlling the population. Earth is severely populated to the point that we are destroying it by just living on it. Population needs to be controlled before its too late. Life is hard nowadays so implementing the one child policy will be a great idea. Providing benefits or allowances for those families who have one child will definitely encourage the family to follow the law (some countries are doing this already). In some countries, they encourage immigrants to fill their need of population.

The Government can give Incentives, like tax breaks, to keep the family size low. These incentives can be accompanied by education projects to raise awareness about the costs of big families.

The OP did not ask about moral, sympathetic or compassionate ways... they asked about the best way.  :/

By Increasing public awareness and education, increasingly aware of the impacts and effects of uncontrolled growth rates, it is hoped that the general public will contribute to the policies set by the government, for example Chinese policy with one mate just allowed to have  one child.

I think that whatever and how ever it will not be effective, the natural nature of the population is difficult to control, let this nature bring natural change, the number of people and life is a mystery, precisely with violence, war and mass destruction, I guess it's not possible. just live this life as it is with goodness.

Better to manage our earth resources wiser instead of someone/something to decrease the population. I think is still room for all of us.

In order to decrease population. The government must provide free family planning orientation and birth control pills. Married couple should know on how to limit the number if their children. In the rural areas usually there is no family planning. We must be all responsible enough if we decide to build a family of our own.

 For me I think the best way is give a two kids policy.

You give bitcoins as reward for not having children  ;)

The best way to decrease population is to simply use a contraceptives.

We were not able to decrease the population in our country, but we can able to minimize the increase of population. Due to sex education, many teens will be education and able to avoid to got pregnant or involve in sex. There must be propely sex education on every people especially teens who were very curious about sex.

Family planning! as we can see in the community out there! most family who have poor life are the one who have more children. this must be stop a law must be created all over the world that a couple that cant have a decent house and financial support cant have a child to live with and having pregnancy under no income monthly must be a crime so we can  stop over population and the street children will stop growing in numbers!

What the hell of a question is this? Jeez.
Colonize Mars, and you're set then.

If you simply look at the total population, we are not overpopulated, it just happened that people tend to be packed in the poorer countries. I wouldn't encourage moving those people to declining population societies though. Instead just teach them how to stop spitting screaming gumballs so they don't have to scratch their heads wondering why they still don't have enough food.


LOL, you bad boy. They're not the only ones who like a good chicken. I sure do.  ;D


Religion would go full circle... I just hope they don't complain they are being objectified.

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Not every country needs to lessen the number of it's population. Somehow, in some countries like china, they really need this kind of solution. I believe that family planning is a solution for them to lessen their population. Two child policy has been a very effective way of controlling country's population.

The global population boom is going to slow down in the coming decades and we will likely not go above 12,000,000,000 people.

When you develop and get a better education system, especially one which empowers women, that is what reduces population growth.

You should not try and decrease the population on purpose. Let nature takes its course. "Be fruitful and multiply"

Develop Artificial Intelligence. Eventually robots will realize that humans are the pest in the world! They will slowly capture all humans and harvest them for energy, meanwhile keeping them in a dream state where they will believe they are still relevant and in control (aka matrix style :P )> Slowly machines will kill all humans that try to resist them thus reducing the population problem and other problems such as hunger, starvation, diseases will be eradicated too :P ;)

I think the best way to reduce the population is; Family planning, controlling population growth, this is going to be a very long process.

If the fastest way is war, I think nobody likes war.

1. Education (especially, educate women)
2. Contraception
3. Legal interventions

One of the best way to decrease population is that the government should promote economic growth, educate everyone about population, and spread awareness about it.

I think we need to teach other people how to use contraceptives and try the 2 child policy program.

We can not decreases our population  here in the Philippines because we are not like other Asian countries that they have implanted a rules and law for 2 child policy, I observe in our country the big families are most suffering from poverty

I am taking off my hat to your ideas about population problem. Education is the only solution for this serious problem and education of women is the only key to decrease world population. The more educated woman the less birth rates for sure.

Since the world population is overwhelmingly young, even a strict two-child policy will fail to achieve zero population growth. What we need is a one-child policy without any loopholes and it must be applied in the third world nations such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Somalia. This is no laughing matter. We need to act quick.

The best thing to decrease population is to follow the 1 child policy. Especially now, there's an rapid growth on population, most of the affected families are the poor ones, they can't give proper education to their children, they can't provide enough food, proper shelter and can't give what they need and wants...

Send lefty stupid high-eductated people to North korea. >:(

The global population is very nearly 7 billion people and is expected to reach at least 9 billion by 2050[1][2]. To lower the population by 8 billion, you'd have to basically get the replacement rate to fall massively by convincing people across the world to have 0-1 children per couple

You want to decrease population? Let Elon Musk colonize Mars, then terraform it. Simple as pie.

I think the best way to decrease population is to have a one or two child policy like what china did. In this method we will decrease population and we also secure the future of our children.

I won't wish a decrease of population. Maybe we can use prevention instead? It sounds like we want to kill millions of people and sounds cruel as well. Government can make a law regarding the population and educate mostly the teens and less fortunate regarding the safe-sex.

It's okay, lets decrease the population but rise the quality of that who remains.  ;)

People need to be told and made to understand the consequences of having too many children. Government and non-governmental institutions can carry awareness campaigns to educate people how they would be able to provide good nutrition, education or medical facilities to their children if they have too many. Population is also a reason for illiteracy and malnutrition and the negative effects of it are required to be communicated to the general public to expand their reasoning and understanding.

Incentives have proved to be an efficient policy measure in combating most development issues including population. Providing a health, educational or even financial incentive can be a highly effective population measure. There are certain incentive policies like paying certain some of money to people with not more than two kids or free or discounted education for single child etc. which are in place in most developing countries facing population related challenges and has also proved to be a useful measure.

 I think Natural disaster or Nuclear War.

We need to talk more clearly about sexuality, contraception, abortion, values that control the population, because this ecological crisis, briefly, is a population-related crisis

Until recently China had a strict birth limit. One family did not have the right to have more than one child, but a time ago the ban was dropped.

I believe that the earth in itself has an own ways to decrease the huge population in our world. We never known the effects of our economic boom industrialization that leads to create harm & kills many of our peoples. An instances the irresponsible mining in our mountains resulted to more land slides, a carbon monoxides that pollute our air makes the people have diseases & kills more. The global warming affects the planet earth that leads to more calamities & stream weather condition that can kill more people. Also because of more experimentation of our experts person it escalates also the epidemic diseases & spread out around us. Surely the destruction of our planet can front runner to faster decrease of our population even we did not deliberately planning for it.

Pollution... because it will be a slow death of people, generally. Of course, there will be fights over the little bit of habitable land that is left. but what the h... . We all die anyway. Who cares if it is a little sooner or a little later, right?

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Generally, we can't decrease the population, however we are able to minimize the increase of population by teaching everyone regarding family planning and train them the best way on how to avoid pregnancy.

To be able to control the growth of population, there must be training or seminar on every community regarding sex education. Each people should be also aware on family planning so that we are able to control the over rapid growth of population

And those seminars should be in certain countries. Like those that have over 1 billion members.

Why do even need it? Because big corporations don't allow us to use free energy? Or because most of the people are too lazy to think a little and solve humanity problems? Why use resouces in more smart ways, why invent new technologies, why try to conquer space. Yeah, it's too hard, let's rather decrease population. A company's expenses exceed revenue? Let's fire people. Best solution easy solution, right?

Natural circumstances are decreasing the population all the time and there shouldn't be making ourselves God be trying to decrease the population of humans, there is enough land and resources for the entire population of the world to live on and even more than excess.

It is too hard to decrease population because of not using family planning.

My friend, I think you're right, but I don't think it's the best way.

I think the long-term effective way is family planning control.

To decrease the population is to decrease the increasing new born of baby. I mean the family planning will make it as a must all over the world to let the population not in a speed increase. Population is hard to stop. Sexual activities is always drive everyone everyday everytime when desiring it. The government should study hard and improve the policy with regards to family matters. I think the family members too will matter to decrease the population to use some ways to avoid pregnancy. I'm not saying abortion but a family better planning.

Why not? Family planning is not very effective, as there will be a lot of loopholes. On top of that, it takes a lot of time to get the population under control using this method. On the other hand, a nuclear holocaust can be very effective as only cockroaches are going to survive the catastrophe. It is a very fast-acting and effective method of population control.

Education is the first step in curbing population growth, this will create a general awareness on the importance of birth control and family planning.
Legislation might also be required for in some cases to limit the number of children a family can raise.

Reducing the population is one of the issues that countries around the world are very interested in. The population decline is stabilizing normal living, reducing social rates and living expenses for the state to help improve homes better than state-owned providers.

I have recently seen this movie called What Happened to Monday.

It tackled overpopulation. Each couple is only allowed to have 1 child. If a family is caught to have more than 1 child, the younger children will then be killed.


How to reduce population?
I think this is the wrong question.
The proper question is, how to reduce the population growth rate?
And I wouldn't bother answering that one right now.

Education guys,if people gets educated they will plan the family.

Available contraceptives and sex education. This is very important but still there are some prejudices about sex education in many countries.

It always depends upon the country because some countries are having trouble about the decrease of  the number of their population. It is not necessarily needed now because I believe that our earth is not yet over populated. However, in some over populated countries, what they do is just to have a proper family planning. They need to be educated about birth control and birth plans.

 Why to decrease population , they will find a solution  for overpopulation...

I do not care how they will reduce the population of the country in which they are overpopulated. It's up to them to decide. I care about the very fact of such necessity. It will be reduced in any case. I just would like it to happen gradually, peacefully and fairly.

decreasing the population is possible by rough acts of nature like  tsunamis....hurricanes...or caused by humans like epidemics...or wars.......

Lol! Your suggestions are very good though they made me laugh. How can you combat free sex in the first place? Family planning in remote areas will not work because they dont have electricities so the moment darkness cover couples will start making child  :D. Young marriage - families are poor to send their children to school so instead of studying they get married too early. What is rich system by the way? And lastly, it is not only Indonesia who has a population problem. 

For me, the best way to reduce or control the population is through family planning. If our governments would create a law that only allows maybe 2 kids each per family, then I think that that would be enough to reduce our populatiin in a natural, safe and humane way.

Increasing populationwe can not handle it because here in the Philippines we don't have a law a 2child policy just like some Asian countries, increasing population increasing poverty to

Decreasing population for some good result is reasonable. Having big and large population has a big problem also for a country. First thing is poverty. Overpopulated countries also the poor country. But not all overpopulated countries are poor, there are some that is rich because their people are hardworking and can generate money for their family. Having such policies like one child or two is not the best solutuon for such problems. Decreasing population is not the best solution but we must discipline ourselves for the bettermebt of our own life and our nation.

why should it be reduced?

Family planning is one of the best solution to decrease population. Discipline.

historically those have been wars and deseases. there were also cases of genocides 

Wars, diseases and genocides are present even now. The only difference is that the human life-span has increased, thanks to the advancement in medical science. Only a few diseases such as cancer remain untreatable now. Also, the incidence of wars have reduced quite a bit, at least in regions other than Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East.

sorry, I think the best way to control the population is to take care of and care for an existing generation, improve the quality and quantity of life to alleviate poverty with wellbeing. to become individuals who are responsible to one another, not to make mischief and not to spread prolonged hatred that leads to division and war in this world.
I think there are many cruel and dirty ways to eliminate and annihilate a group of people, but I am sure that will not be the solution and answer to all the problems that occur. because the population is essentially a god who governs everything, humans just take care and keep it. not to make the rules above the provisions of god.

The population is very unevenly distributed on the planet. May be it's worth moving from overpopulated places to remote ones? This can be no less cruel than to limit the birth rate.

We should be increasing population, and spreading it out over the whole world. Why? This is what God wants. And what God wants is way more important than what we want.

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I think it's better to let everything go naturally, because that large population is not necessarily going to bring destruction and bad impact.

Sorry pal, wrong answer. That's an obsolete technique. The best way to decrease population today is with a well engineered epidemic, which has the collateral advantage of providing Plausible Deniability for your actions, in other world nobody could ever prove it was intentional and that you did it.

1 child policy like china law now. Its effective cause it can lesser the population. For onw family get 1 child only in the future. 2 family create 1 family only because of the one child family. Repeat and repeat the cycle. 1 child + 1child = in the future 1 child agan with this. It can avoid over population.

The best way to decrease the population is to have a war in this world. When the times comes that a war will occure in this world probably nuclear war , people will die , many lives will be in grave and that is the time for us people to decrease our population.
This is only in china where their population is massive, because we know that china has a big population and their government has this kind pf policy. To reduce the population in their country.

In my country thats one of the most biggest problem, the over population, to decrease this over populated countries, lets just say that the govt must convince every people to have a Family planning it helps to prevent the growing population lets say 2-3 kids are allowed for those who are in mid range family.

If 2 child policy is implemented in a country, the population would still grow by around 1% per year for the next 20 to 30 years, as a result of the youthful structure of the population. That is why the population in China is still growing despite having implemented a strict one-child policy more than three decades back. If you want a stable population, then implement a one-child policy for the first 30 years and a 2-child policy after that.

We can not decreases population  because we don't have a 2 child policy not like some Asian countries..but here in the Philippines our government implemented having a program for bithcontrol  and family planning

There is no need to decrease population, e.g. Japan. There is a need for the gov't to not be corrupt, for the people to have support from the gov't(toddler box package, free education up to college, seminars about life, projects that would produce employment, free universal healthcare, tenements), and for the support to actually reach the citizens.

I think that adding death penalty to high end criminals would be very good to decrease the dencity of  world population.

Some of the way to reduce population is proper  family planning, set age limit to marriage and education for all

World war ii

bullets.

Natural disasters.

I think that the best way to decrease population is to use contraceptives to avoid having too much children. In addition, their should be a seminar to educate families or couples about family planning, since this is the most harmless way and safest way to avoid growth of population.

Strict population control policies are much needed in nations such as the Philippines. Because the population density is already too high and it it is growing at a alarming rate, thanks to the pro-fertility propaganda by the Catholic church. Already the population has crossed the 100 million mark, and immediate steps should be taken to stabilize the growth.

in my opinion the best way to decrease population is promote family planning programs or family planning to limit the number of children in a family in general and mass, so it will reduce the number of birth rate. Delaying the marriage period in order to reduce the number of high birth rates.

According to the data provided by V. M. Galushin, in many developed countries of Europe and North America, the annual population growth is about 1% and continues to decline.
The situation is different in most developing countries, where rapid population growth makes it difficult to improve their well-being and creates complex socio-economic problems. Many countries in Asia and Africa are therefore implementing birth control programmes through "family planning".
By the mid 70-ies of the first signs of a slowdown in population growth in such major countries as China, India, etc. Is largely made possible thanks to the growth of women's employment in manufacturing, increasing share of urban population, to raise the cultural level, weakening the influence of religion and traditions, the success of health care, implementation of economic incentive measures for failure from birth of children and other factors.
According to many experts today, the complex effect of social, economic and cultural factors, the impact of the education system will lead to a significant reduction in population growth in Asia and Africa before 2000.in this case, the total population of our planet in the second half of the XXI century, reaching 10-12 billion people, stabilizes at this level, after which, apparently, will begin a gradual reduction in its population. According to the majority of scientists, providing such a number of people with food and housing in the future is a real task.

Decrease population is a situation whereby there is no rapid or there is no growth in population of a country or region, there are benefits from decrease population, and there is also disadvantages of it.
Some of the benefits : there is lower rate of unemployment compared to a country whereby there is over population.
There will be little or no congestion in the environment and people will leave comfortably
Some of the disadvantages of decrease population is that, there is no more people to defend the territory, people will depend on imported goods because there won't be more goods provided in the country.
Some causes of decrease population is/are; family planning, disease and epidemics late marriage,and lot more.

Educating people about responsible parenting and proper family planning are still the best, natural ways of decreasing the population. If people will become more responsible with the actions they are doing and are knowleadgeable of their responsibilities in tgeir own families then I think it would be a great help in fighting overpopulation.

Want to decrease the population? World War 3 is the best recommended solution. Haha, just kidding with this brutal reality. But anyway, why need to decrease the population if this can be also a great help for a nation? Like China, they have a huge number of soldiers because of not limiting the number 9f population. This anger of this question is not acceptable good for general answer because there should be some aspects that need to be considered. The place, the economy, and also the income of the husband and wife. This three must be discussed as it is the major thing about this issue.

The only way to decrease population is war. Maybe you are asking the wrong question. The only thing we can do is to let people aware of over population. If people are aware about the effect of over population, they might even consider the effect before making a huge number of family.

People are such hypocrites. First they talk about decreasing population. Then they do the one thing that increases population. LOL!

 :D

The decline in the population, I do not know, for me,so on the contrary,the population is rising, the birth rate is only in China and India, and so many in Africa are not registered people,and many films have been documented recently in terms of population growth, etc

There are no good plans to decrease population to one billion over time. There are a few evil plans to do that and a few well meaning but misguided plans to do that, but not a single good plan because it would be a disaster for the human race and cause untold ecological, sociological, and economic hardship and suffering. Completely unnecessary.It is much better to instead teach the new generations their awesome potential for good and set them out to correct the evils prior generations have committed against the environment, society and economies. We need those people to do the hard work of fixing degraded systems on this awesome planet. They might need to topple a few entrenched neo-Luddites along the way. But there is work to be done and we desperately need the new generations to pick up that work

Population reduction is a necessity for countries with large populations such as China and India. The population of these countries is more than one billion people. Family policies with only one or two children are applied. The demise of the population makes the country more developed.

Population is important to every country. Reducing population is essential for countries like China and India. Decreasing the population will help the country develop. Problems solving jobs are less stressful.

The difference between China and India is that the former had taken concrete policies to slow down the population growth since the 1970s. On the other hand, India has ignored this issue till now. And that is the reason why China has grown at a much faster rate when compared to India.

Decrease in the number of the population of Japan to break the record this year, since recording of population decline was first performed in 1968 ago.Japan today is a country that is "aging" the most rapid in the world. Based on official data, the number of Japanese citizens who were still alive fell to the lowest point in 7 years, from 271,8 million in January 2016 to 125,9 million.

1. Education.
The countries with higher level of education, where everybody can access to school, university, etc, have few children. Countries with the lower level of education have huge families. Why? Because the people with education are more conscious about what means to have a huge family, not only for the impact in the world, but also because they have other goals, like make a professional life. In the countries where the woman is still seen as a child machine, well, there you have 5 children per woman
2. Religion
The most atheists a population is, the fewer children they have. Meantime, where religion is on every corner, there you have again huge families, with less money and lower education.

So, in short:
Religion+low education+ poverty= a lot of children with no education and in poverty, also meaning: cheap workers for rich countries.
Atheism+ high education+money= few children with high education and money.

I think it's too vague when we say that education helps to decrease the population. When people are asked about how to increase educational rates, they just think this area needs more investment, more money to have better results on the countries and it's not true.

Education isn't the main problem. The main problem is the cultural mindset in several countries. They are used to their precarious life, living from state's welfare programs and foreigner's charity. It's their confort zone, and they don't have plans to change this reality...

And this educational talk is a trick from "philanthropist" billionaires and assistentialist governments to "help" these people on their countries for the eternity, always feeding the problem, but never achieving the final solution.

Since a long time ago I see those videos from Africa's children starving, melodic musics on the background and then few years later there are more children starving again, and after more years the same... Or those children never grew up, or people don't stop having more children! And it makes no sense to continue having children on that precarious situation. So why instead of giving them only food and medicine, don't these international foundations and governments make a pact with them? They would have total support, but they would need to start having only one or no children until they have full conditions to sustain the family by themselves.

But I believe it's not going to happen, because that is what keeps the leftist agenda working around the world. Without misery, without conflicts, without ignorance the leftist agenda wouldn't exist.

Proper education about family planning is still the best way to control population. If people are aware of these methods, then I think that people will become open and practice it.

There is a pretty good way to limit population growth - to increase the rate of contraception among the population  ;D Contraception, while not infallible, drastically reduces fertility rates, often with minimal expense. Also we can throw some nukes to the neighbour country lol   ::)

We need policies that directly tackle the issue, limiting the number of children persons can have. I think it is the only way forward. But we also need to think about decreasing populations of farmed animals for human consumption. And that is by simply limiting the amount of meat and dairy people can eat. Which will also bring many health benefits. Win-win!

Think it's pretty much figured out. The government is trying to encourage same sex marriage as a way to control the population. Maybe I'm wrong. But that's what I think it is

i guess by make law that you cant have sex unless your married and have a family planning destroy the syndicate used sex trafficking

We should not decrease the population, instead how we prevent the over population. We shouldnt decrease it instead prevent it or control it. We should not kill people just to decrease the population, we need to educate people for family planning, so that they can prevent making a lot of babies.

The global population is very nearly 7 billion people and is expected to reach at least 9 billion by 2050[1][2]. To lower the population by 8 billion, you'd have to basically get the replacement rate to fall massively by convincing people across the world to have 0-1 children per couple.  Like how the country of china done.

China has not managed to reduce the population. The total population is still growing, since the rural areas and the ethnic minorities are excluded from the one-child policy. But this won't last long. Within the next 10-15 years, the Chinese population will start its irreversible decline.

Nuke 'em all. Kidding.  ;D

Honestly there is no way, unless all the government would impose one child policy, soon you'll see a decrease in population and death is the consequence of not obeying.
A natural way is a disease, then don't search for any cure, you'll see a decrease the population, just like during the black death.

I don't think that any kinds of war could decrease population. To decrease population, people need Family Planning.
Family planning could play a important role in decreasing population for Asian countries or many other.

population problem is now a burning question in this world.now it has bbecome a big issue in some over populated countries.so to reduce population first they have to do family planning.secondly they have to know that more population are creating problems for them.after all unemployment peolpe have to include in work so that they can not pass their time by enjoying themselves at home.

All the people's in our country must control their self about  doing something and control their lust so that our population decreases.

Best way? Kill them, spread a killer virus or declare a war, send out nuclear missles in the air to kill off people. Next option will be a strict enforcement of family planning. The government could give out tax exemptions for people who follow and a punishment for those who don't. Sterilization of people could be also an option. The population of our species have gone to a great level where we can't sustain living with the very limited resources we have.

The best way to decrease population are war, mass killing, bomb this is the way of massive effect to decrease population. In another approach we can try the family planning, withdrawal, medicine, monthly period and other family planning that have a good effect and much effective. This is what I think the best ways according to two different ways hard approach, and soft approach. But if we apply the very massive and so much effective  nuclear war is the only way to achieve it. Although very evil but achievement for the best way to decrease population.

Sorry what this population is?
because we or the friends are still less clear, who knows the population of animals or population grows, well guess you detail the question clearly, if negative thinking yes, human population, continue to reduce human population, yes with war.

this is a very dangerous thought because it begins misunderstanding so as to bring up the negative doctrine, I suggest you provide a motivation or other useful topic

Well it's a pretty simple equation :

We (already) are too many people on the planet earth to sustain our way of consuming and living. (And still 2/3 of the world is underconsuming compared to the 1st world).

Two choices if we want to survive as a spieces :

Reducing consumption FAST.

Reducing world population. (You don't have to kill people, sterilisation works too :p).


Which one seems more achievable ?

How well i guess we're f.... :p

More than the over-population, what bothers me the most is the fact that it is the less intelligent people who are having dozens of children each. The intelligent people, such as those in Germany, Japan, Korea.etc are having very few children.

Population to be decreased we need to have an essential family planning and not more than 2 children per family.

Join the terrorist group and do a series of bombing LOL You would get paid for it too ;p

the ratio of born is to death is too much higher. I think we need to stop having children because we cant kill those who are living

I dont know why people are not using protection while having sex. it would protect child birth and even provide pleasure to each couples as usual

There is no way because with the advancement of medical science the rate of death is much lesser or extended. So delaying senescense.

Best way to decrease a population? Do you mean effectivity or morally? If we're talking about effectivity there are alot of it available. There are nuclear weapons with a bonus fall out in the end. There is weaponized diseases that could off millions in a span of weeks. There is of course wars, just say you have oil and there you go. But i guess the efdective way to decrease a population without killing them off is to enforce a reinforcement to adopting or having only one child.

Human hunger is the major problem because of the high population

Super typhoons and the coming big one earthquake. This is what I think the best way to decrease the population in the world. The natural phenomena can do it in a twinkling of an eye. Natural calamities is the only way to do it if the people couldn't do such nuclear bomb. Or missile one country to start the decrease of population. This seems selfish idea but seems like true. Seems applicable but seems not right. People can make it through power and strength, it can be also by the natural calamities big and harmful effects will leave the people.

Over-population is the one of those big problems in the world. The best way to decrease or to control the incease of population is we need to know the family planning. Family planning makes a important role in our lives. Most of the people nowadays they did'nt know how to value family. Some of them want to have many kids but they didn't want to work or they unemployed because they did not finish there education.

At present population is the most alarming issue in the world. so anyhow we should control high population. I think family planning can reduce the population I,e one child rule.

None of the countries, with the exception of China had the courage to implement a strict one-child policy. India tried it in 1977, when Sanjay Gandhi was having power. But it ended very badly for him, and it ruined his political career.

One of the best ways is to spread nano-size aluminum and barium and strontium particles in the air, so that people breath them, penetrating into their reproductive organs, which will cause their children to become infertile.

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So why not spray countires with high population rates?
So why do they invite so many immigrants to the UK USA  ?

Ready for some TIN FOIL?..

I thinks the spraying is to give us cancer so the big companies don't have to pay the workers a life pension..

Just think if you work then retire at 65 the company could be paying 30 years of monies to thousands of employers ,,
Now what if 30 massive companies get together and give cancer to all it's workers the money they save ,,

An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance - DealBook
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22 Jun 2014 - But critics say it is immoral for companies to profit from the death of employees, while employees themselves do not directly benefit. And despite a law enacted in 2006 that sought to curb the practice — companies now are restricted to insuring only the highest-paid 35 percent of employees, who must give .

THE TRICKS THESE SUPER RICH PLAY..All about the monies almost EVERYTHING IN LIFE..

The things peoples do for monies     no wonder we are all suspicious ..

They are spraying countries with high population rates, right along with the rest of the countries.

They need to spray all countries because their excuse is global warming. People would see through their excuse if they only sprayed certain countries.

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we think to provide decreasing population all nation has implemented the birth control policy to each nation to make the possible solution of this problem(over population) to decreases them population and sterilize them included that they have only 1-2 kids per couple and make them to  get reward from the government as follower the rules and regulation,,and whose person dos'nt follow do the punishment without violence their human rights,

A long-term population decline is typically caused by sub-replacement fertility, coupled with a net immigration rate that fails to compensate the excess of deaths over births. A long-term decline is accompanied by population aging and creates an increase in the ratio of retirees to workers and children

Sterilizing people can be suicidal for the elected governments. The last time someone did that was in Peru during the 1990s. Alberto Fujimori tried to control the high birth rates of the rural population and in the end he was jailed for this.


Congrats! Never seen a better copy-paste else where. Original source is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline

Climate change control is about reducing the population through making the people non-fertile. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2748857.msg32375382#msg32375382

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There is no way because with the advancement of medical science the rate of death is much lesser or extended. So delaying senescense.

maybe these views can work:

1. End all policies that reward parents financially based on the number of children they have. Governments can preserve and even increase tax and other financial benefits aimed at helping parents by linking these not to the number of children they have, but to parenthood status itself.

2. Integrate lessons on population, environment, and development into school curricula at multiple levels. Refraining from advocacy or propaganda, schools should educate students to make well-informed choices about the impacts of their behavior, including childbearing, on the environment.

3. Put prices on environmental costs and impacts. In quantifying the cost of an additional family member by calculating taxes and increased food costs, couples may decide that the cost of having an additional child is too high. Such decisions, freely made by women and couples, can decrease birth rates without any involvement by non-parents in reproduction.

The birth rate is already decreasing. It has been for many decades. This is greatly tied to wealth. As a country becomes more wealthy, the birth rate tends to decrease. In the past, it was more important to people to have more children. Not that long ago, the majority of society was involved in farming. Now it is just a small percent of the population. When people had old traditional farms it required a lot of work, so people would have more children to have more free labor. This is still the case in some places, but it's happening less an less as technology relieves farm workers around the world.

I think big families are also a product of tradition, not only desire for free labour. Religious people are more likely to have more children. Smaller families are more characteristic for urban population and the Western society.

The population is a collection of individuals from one species used and living in a particular area. an example of a collection of coconut trees in the garden and a number of ants that live in the hole.

There are 7.8 billion people in the world today --- and if we think that the statistical data shows too much population of the world, then we would most likely to think that it must be reduced. Well, personally, I think that we could not and should not forcefully decrease those numbers. However, I believe that we can raise an awareness to do almost the same as the other. Hence, it must start within a family. Natural birth control for me is the moset approprite way of decreasing the population growth. This birth control method is a cheap, practical, and 'less immoral' and 'less condemnable' one. And by using this kind of bith control method, we will give the involved persons free to choose and to make a decision whole-heartedly.

What should people's awareness be raised about? What should they know? What should be implied that would be good? That they have no kids? Or that they should have fewer children? Why? What do you mean by natural birth control? Just choosing not to have more children?

It may seem that the increase of population in our world is inevitable but we can still do something or it I believe. I'm pro-life but we should als consider our environment. We don't want a world full of people that we can move due to it. I think laws about awareness about birth control could consider. Also laws about having specific number of child can be consider. This I think what we can do for now. At least we are not into a point that we would kill just to control population growth.

The current population growth rate is a big problem. Therefore, the population growth rate should be controlled to prevent many future problems. There is a big responsibility for a government. The government needs to improve the healthcare system. Family planning methods should be introduced and the public should be made aware of this.

What? Nuclear war? I think it is not a solution to the problem, but it adds a problem to many parties, it is good to give rules to all countries and governments to socialize to the family in order to be limited by the number of children, such as a maximum of one family has two children or one child only.

The food that we eat today mostly are containing chemicals that give us some diseases that are showing the signs later on.

Pollution, global warming, famine, deforestation, etc.

We may not notice it but we're heading there, sadly.  :-\

What a ridiculous idea! Seems pretty counterproductive. Maybe people are concerned that we are doing too much damage to the planet because we have too may people. Imagine how much damage a nuclear war would do to the planet! Once the war started, it would just escalate. This would lead to more destruction. War would probably distract people from any efforts that were being made before to take better care of the environment. During a war, some may take advantage of the turmoil and exploit even more resources while nobody is paying attention. Sure, you might have less people, but you'd have so many more problems.

The current population growth rate is a big problem. Therefore, the population growth rate should be controlled to prevent many problems in the future. It is not just the responsibility of a government that needs to be joined by the whole community. Family planning methods should be widely available for everyone to know

1. Provide universal access to safe and effective contraceptive options for both sexes.
2. Offer age-appropriate sexuality education for all students.
3. Adjust to an aging population instead of boosting childbearing through government incentives and programs.

All the point goes to sex education. I agree that Government should take big part for managing of boost childbearing. At some places, contraceptive options was being adopted with success result, while at others place they still need more participation of both parent and younger to takes the spot.

I’d rather not consider inhumane ways to control or curb population growth. Maybe instead of focusing concerns and efforts on controlling it, what if we search for a solution that would be able to accommodate the uncontrollable growth of population? There are a lot of research now being conducted with regards to technologies focusing on space colonization or even the digitization of human consciousness via virtual and augmented realities. That would seem more feasible and humane, don't you think?

Well There are so many different ways through which you can reduce the papulation of the country or the even the world like family planning. But on the second thoughts why it should be reduced?
Having huge and extensive populace has a major issue additionally for a nation. First thing is destitution. Overpopulated nations likewise the poor nation. In any case, not all overpopulated nations are poor, there are some that is rich in light of the fact that their kin are persevering and can create cash for their family. Having such strategies like one kid or two isn't the best solution for such issues. Diminishing populace isn't simply the best arrangement yet we should train ourselves for the betterment of our own life and our country.

There's a way to decrease the population by the following:
1. Provide the universal access to safe and effective contraceptive options for both sexes.
2. Conduct a sex education  for all secondary and tertiary schools, especially girls.
3. Destroy completely all gender bias from law, economic opportunity, health, and culture, and
4. Provide age-appropriate sexuality education for all students.

Really? A whole strange lot on here. So many people seem to be in support of war. I had to actually pinch myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming. Wars don't reduce population only. They also reduce infrastructure and resources. What does this imply? It means we are always back to square one or even worse. I have a question of mine. Why is human population we need to reduce. Why not increase our productivity?

Actually demography experts are not that worried about population increase. They claim that we will never see the 12 billionth person in the world. Over 90% of the world economies have increased last year, slowly but pretty surely the standard of living of the people around the world is getting better. This is a long process but eventually even what we call third world countries will metamorph in societies that resemble western such. This decreases birth rates, there are number of examples to back that up. Overpopulation is not that big of an issue, it will decrease over time.

Thank you for this positive perspective. I had read some of the literature before about overpopulation being a myth. I even read that we may have underpopulation problems. I never heard about never seeing the 12 billionth person though. I agree that the world is definitely getting "richer". Things are getting cheaper to produce overall. More people are able to afford conveniences that didn't even exist just a century ago. I also have a very optimistic view about the future of our world!

Wars actually cause an increase in the population. Check the population charts of countries such as Russia and Germany which suffered the most from WW2. There was a sudden spike immediately after the war was over. War is never the solution for anything.

I just opened up the USSR demographic history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union). It looks like they lost about 16 million people during WWII. Other sites actually said they lost 20 million. It looks like it took them over 15 years to replenish the population after that. I not sure sure that is so fast. I do know what you mean by the baby boom though. Of course, during war people do want to have children because there is a lot of instability and danger. It's hard to say that war causes populations to grow. It is actually stopping war that lets the population grow again.

But there are more being born than die hence the global population exponential growth.

The point of decreasing the population?  
The Earth has finite resources and can only support a certain number of people before starvation, disease and a lack of fresh water will cull the herd.

Definitely Isaac. There is a lot to read on that around the net, but here is a good motion graphic video for you to take a look at. It sums it up nicely.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348

LOL, did the surviving children of Thanos migrated here from Reddit?  ;D


I view it as like increasing food supply, you make more food available, you allow the population to grow even larger. Only being a truly circular economy (everything gets recycled back) could ensure we never run out of resources and we're still far away from that. Hence why people are suggesting reducing population instead to buy us time.


Probably depends on how many people die off in an event. Europe lost a quarter to half of its population due to plague and it took centuries for it to recover, enough time to make the survivors' descendants a bit better off.

Ideological Subversion is the most practical way. Using think tanks to influence social discord.

1.) empowering women
2.) promote and create campaigns to increase homosexual activity
3.) use Hollywood to promote the 'hero of the movies' to be a single guy from a broken home or a dysfunctional family unit.
4.) push the MTV carefree lifestyle of 'the self'
5.) push individualism.

Yes, I hope you are not meaning to argue with me. This was a very good video actually. I enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing. It talks about population growth actually going down. It's called the demographic transition. All countries go through it, just some later than others. I really liked the point they made that it is in everybody's interest to have people all over the world be less poor. There will be less refugees and more stability. It would also decrease birth rates more quickly. It seems like the overpopulation is a dated scare. It's not a really problem, as was feared in the 1960s.

We should not worry about the population it will decreased itself once the natural resources is not enough for the population. Like water or oil will became scarce countries will start a war and eventually millions or billions will be dead.With scarce water and oil,  diseases and starvation would be rampant and thus population would also be reduce.

But there is one solution for this without reducing the population, we should conquer space and the planets. Create floating habitat like McKendree cylinder or O'Neill cylinder from materials of the moon, asteroids and other planets. Mars can be converted into 500+ earth size habitats or cylinder.

but do not you think that now there is an attempt to reduce the population or to contain growth?I look, I read, and I understand that this is so. at least in my country. those facts when medicine is eradicated, sell horrible non-natural products from which diseases subsequently arise. when there are diseases in the world that were not there before, the diseases of which die. I believe that many people do notIt is necessary, but we need efficient slaves

The overpopulation trend, for the most part has already been reversed. So much so now a lot of nations are not even meeting replacement levels of reproduction.

The best way is for society/religion to stop forcing those who don't want children or only want 1 or 2, to have them/more of them. Not everyone wants children and it is not selfish not to want them. The biggest thing an individual can do for environment/this Earth is not have kids.

Earth is a living organism.

At some point it will just get tired of all the pesky humans destroying it and unleash some sort of plague that will take care of us.

Probably some form of super flu or some other nasty disease....

Everyone who said population planning gets my approval. Less subsidies for having children means less people having children. Radical, yet practical, and objectively moral because it sets precedent for people to reproduce sustainably.

The best way to decrease population in the world is war . War can be the most destructive event that can ocvur in this world , because of the new technology now , there where nuclears that countries have now to use when world war happens. That will be the time many people will be killed.

I don't think we ever need to come up with the solution because each year that goes by, this world becomes more and more unhabitable and even the lifestyle of people is very unhealthy. Our life expectancy will go below that average so I'm not worried.

Is there any civilized way to do that? I don't think so.

This wouldn't surprise me at all.  It's a common conspiracy that AIDS were created in a government laboratory.  I believe the Gates foundation is pushing a depopulation agenda as well.

Modern medicine and food have made become very unhealthy.  When people go to the hospital they are pumped full of drugs and prescription pills are like eating candy now.  Most of the food sold in stores is processed and filled with unnatural additives. 

Or what about digitizing the earth and humanity? Perhaps technology can have unlimited storage to accommodate the growing population. There are actually readings to back up this possibility.
https://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/immortality-can-humans-attain-eternal-youth-and-not-destroy-the-planet/
http://goddessathena051.wixsite.com/website/blog/virtual-reality-and-transhumanism
What do you think?

I think war is not an option. You can't just kill people to decrease population. The only smart move would be to regulate the birth rate. Don't know if it's smart or not, but China has a rule that you can't have more than 2 kids if you live there (The number was 1 but after twin birth aborts it was reviewed). In my opinion, preventing too much births is the only smart move in this situation.

I think to reduce our population we have to take care of our marriage, after that we apply the method of two children enough, in my country this method is called family planning, and then avoid free sex that can make the population more numerous.
I hope this helps.

Depending where you look at.

All 3rd world nations still have a birthrate of 6.0-10.0+ :(

Making birth so expensive that people can go bankrupt just by having two kids!!

Terence McKenna once proposed one way to save the world from overpopulation: and it is that no woman should raise more than one children

This simple proposition would have these consequences:
-In 40 years, population of the earth would be reduced by 50%
-In 80 years, reduced to the half again, what means 75% of the population reduced in
One human lifetime.

No wars would be delivered, it would serve individual womans and the general humanity in the reduction of resources demand, there will be less ambiental pollution, less poor and hunger, more wealth without any kind of conflict.

Obviously our political capitalistic system doesn't want this, because they view the masses as consumers and they want more consumers in order to make them more rich, without paying attention to all the damage they are doing to the world

Why is no one talking about this?

We don't need to decrease population.  Almost of the destruction and resource use is coming from the richest 10% of humanity. We need to decrease the consumption of the wealthy which could easily be done by redistributing wealth.
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Not much result can be achieved from these if family planning and use of contraception remains optional instead of mandatory. Strict legal steps are required for child marriage, education, abolition of child labor and beggary and family planning to reap significant benefits from it. Proper enforcement of laws related to child labor, slavery and beggary will ensure that parents don’t sell their children or send them out to work thus forcing them to raise lesser number of kids.

Reduce the population? Elementary. It is necessary to improve the quality of life. When people have something to seek and how to have fun, then they stop constantly having sex from boredom, as in Africa or India.
When the environment is nische, then the natural strategy of frogs is triggered - to produce as many eggs as possible. Most will die, but some will survive.

I disagree, the amount of resources other than renewable ones on our planet is limited. The number of people is constantly rising at the increasing rate, which may result in resource wars.
In my opinion, resource crisis is the number one problem in the nearest future. This problem, however, should be addressed not only by decreasing population, but also by proper resource management and development of green technology.

Population is no longer rising at an increasing rate.  It hasn't been for years.  All estimates suggest global population will level off around 10 billion.  We already produce enough for 10 billion people. 

I understand why it is in certain interests to push a myth of overpopulation but its merely an excuse to kill black and brown people or not feel bad about letting them die.  There are limited resources on Earth and there is a resource crisis but to blame it on population goes against all logic when the overwhelming majority of people on the planet are barely using any resources. 

The US is extremely wasteful with resource consumption and hungry for more.  It would take 5 earth's to obtain enough resources for everyone to consume at our rate.  The overpopulation myth is a convenient way for us to point the finger at poor people who hardly use anything just so we can feel good about continuing to grow our grossly inflated consumption rate.

If you are concerned about resources then the thread should be "decrease consumption" or else you just sound like a monster.

Bring in hundreds of tons of Heroin and Fentanyl into any one country or state. Look at what it's done to Ohio!

Population control is going to be a huge problem, and is caused by people looking at the world through the lens of that of a caveman, which we kind of are, but have to rise above this mindset to peacefully coexist and thrive.

Accumulation of things we don't need and endlessly fornicating is in our blood. It's destructive, and these needs have to be channeled into an environment where they don't carry repercussions. The Virternity project seems to have a solution for this..

Ensuring that people have easy and cheap access to contraception tools will help avoiding cases of unwanted pregnancies and births.
We can stop overpopulation by dramatically reducing births. Increasing numbers of resource experts agree that in order to stop global overconsumption, depletion of resources and unprecedented loss of species – and significantly reduce dire human poverty.

Look at the way China has done to limit overpopulation with their one family one child policy because it’s really working to stop the overpopulation especially when you add the financial incentives when people decide to follow it. I am sure giving out money for that is a good deal.

If a disaster happens, it is difficult to avoid, but if it is a battle, maybe this is not a lot of things you want because there will be a huge loss and there will be a lot of misery.
I don't expect that to happen.

Why most poor countries have highest population growth instead of rich ones. Poverty has a direct relation to the population growth. In developing countries of Asia and Africa, child labor, slave trading and human trafficking is highly prevalent. African countries for example still have maximum reporting of slave trading though trading of humans is legally banned everywhere in the world. People give birth to kids and sell them to rich people who in turn employ these kids in various laborious and unethical tasks. If not sell, these parents force their kids to beg or work at a very tender so as to earn some extra money for the family. These people believe that more kids mean more hands for begging and work and thus more money. Without concrete measures for growth and poverty eradication, other methods of population control may prove to be ineffective.

The best way to decrease population is educate all mother on earth that give them self a control like sex use family planning to avoid pregnancy. I think this is the best way to decrease population.

I think it is useless. Most of the world's population are residents of countries where the traditional way of life prevails. That is, in families it is customary to have many children. There it is considered correct even if you are poor. No stories of contraception will help. There it is considered immoral.
About global issues of our planet, such as population growth or global warming, only developed countries worry, which are smaller in population. Third world countries are full of other problems, they are not worried about it.
We cannot solve this problem all over the world. We can only wait and see what will happen next.

To be honest it was already did before but still nothing change. In fact sex education doesn't help to decrease the increase in population. The only solution on it was the self control. Because we cant control other people. Its really hard to solve this problem because the government cannot control every human being in this world.

What do you mean?  Every country with significant increase in girls' rights and education has seen a significant drop in birth rate.  Yes, if left up to the man, there will be more children because it is not their bodies.

Planning , birth control i guess, because for my state and for my country as well one of the reason of poverty is the population, sometimes it exceed the capacity of the group member on the family, so i think it's gonna work when we have family planning to somehow limit or restrict them to produce new.

Everybody tried answering what is the best way to reduce population, but nobody stopped to ask SHOULD we reduce population? Is our prerogative to do that?

I think most of the people live with the impression that Earth is close to it's maximum number of people it can sustain. But this is just an impression. You can see this video from Isaac Arthur where he explains that the maximum number of people Earth can sustain is higher than most people imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJeYe-abUA&t=11s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJeYe-abUA&t=11s)

Also, an argument against Malthusians (the disciples of Malthus, the one who first theorized that Earth is overpopulated) is "if you think Earth is overpopulated, why don't you kill yourself and leave one person less on Earth"? Of course, most of them think that OTHERS should be killed or controlled (how many children they can have), not themselves.

Someone tell Isaac Arthur we are not bacteria but human beings

Why did you get the impression that Isaac Arthur thinks we are bacteria? Have you watched the video? Or any other video from his channel?

I think his channel provides quite good quality content about the prospects of human species development and how we can go about colonizing not just our solar system, but also the entire galaxy.

One way to decrease population is to do exactly what the status quo is promoting right now. Become a vegan, change your gender it's awesome, fight for women's rights so they can be happier in an office all day and not have time to give birth and raise children, feminize men  :-*.

It's already happening. Populations are being weeded out because there are too many of us. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Vaccines? I don't buy it.

This is why the Virternity project's vision is so important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virternity

First, increase the population by 3 times. Then get the new ones to join together, 2 to 1, against the others. This will reduce the population by one third (even though it doubles the original population.)

 ;D

On second thought, the best way to decrease the population is to get all the people who are serious about decreasing the population, to commit suicide.

 ;)

Call me a pessimist, but I think population will naturally begin to decrease in the next 4-5 decades. Pollution is not tackled fast enough, hunger is on the rise in poorer countries, global warming is coming - soon the nature will start balancing things on its own.

1) We will never have an energy source to last enough for a planetary colonization, when oil ends we won't even be able to sustain ourselves on this planet alone if we remain with a growing population like now.
2) I didn't watch the video but I know for sure that, someone advocating for a higher population, is a dick or an ignorant person often both. Our planet has limited resources, limited space, limited energy. Humans shouldn't live like ants scraping everything they can until death, but should have enough space to sustain self-dignity and privacy.
3) The human "race" has many cultures, many contradicting each other values, nations&religions won't stop fighting against one another if they don't give up the very concept of nation&religion. Humans are far from being united, thus having more of them will not improve the conflict but increase it worldwide, especially during an energy crisis or a global famine.

Optimism without facts won't last

population can be decreased by increasing contraceptive awareness. couples should also be made aware that large family size can increase financial burden, hence there is the need to reduce family sizes

Overpopulation is a valuable asset actually, although it`s not the right time to utilize it properly. People can man colonization spacecrafts, but unfortunately we don`t have proper technology for the moment - and it`s a good question if we`ll ever have.

Birth control just like the Chinese people is doing it. And perhaps some people need to take  a psychological test or an economic approval from the government to see if you can become a father

Birth control, family planning in my opinion can lower population in the long run

Has anybody pointed out that the globalists already have this under way with their various eugenics programmes. These include toxic pharmaceuticals, fluoridation, vaccination, mass migration, AIDs, war, terrorism, pesticides, GM foods, debt slavery, gender blurring, fractional reserve banking, the Eurppean Union and all of the others tricks such as fracking and toxic con trails.

It would not decrease the population, rather would wipe it. Ever heard of Nuclear winter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBCe3qwxRRs).


War would only lead to a reduced male population which would be followed by a very low productivity and economic growth. Plus a major war would also take its toll on infrastructure which would be completely destroyed. Look at Russia's demographic which is still to improve the population dynamics after WW2.

Anybody who truly wants to decrease the population should do two things. The second is to commit suicide. Can you guess the first? It has to do with self-mutilation.

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I think everyone could just masturbate and wait for natural death, it doesn't take much effort to do not stick your cranky smelly dick into a diseases hole

You got a point. stick around. That way there is less food for the breeders.

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I really don't know why we need to decrease our population?

Population will always increase, because too many people want sex and kids.

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I'm not sure if this thread means decreasing the current population or slowing its growth.

Both, decreasing the population, and slowing its growth, are against what God wants. In fact, believing in God will increase the population, because God wants people who believe in Him.

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It should mean slowing its growth, although considering some latest comments I`m not sure of anything now.

We need a population increase. Why? Because geniuses only occur at certain statistical intervals... like 38 per 100,000 for the Czech Republic - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-09-02/10-countries-with-the-most-geniuses-per-capita.

Why do we need more geniuses? To figure out all the technical problems with going to the stars, and increasing life span to life long enough to get there.

You can't get more geniuses by killing off the population, or by reducing the number of kids born.

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Like live how many years, it is really possible that humans can live to 900+ years like in the bible, that might even result in overpopulation

Why not? Or why not more? Or why not live, say, 200 years, and travel the star paths by hyperspace that a bunch of geniuses formulated together? And why not clean up the whole earth by these geniuses figuring out how? And all kinds of other stuff.

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Although I believe that decreasing population is a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons. In answer to your question however, the best way would be getting rid of child benefits.

^^^ But true child benefits (not necessarily governmental) are the thing that God really wants almost more than anything else.

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we cannot stop increasing our population but it can control or decrease it by using family planning there are different methods of birth control like Hormonal Contraceptives method, Oral, Injectable, implants and more . actually God said to abraham "I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore." in the book of genesis. God bless you all.

Don't know about other countries but in India, we need such kind of arrangements soon ;D. According to some studies we are going to surpass China in term of the population soon  :'( :'(

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ieiZD5jUbyE/VaCRZIN9MiI/AAAAAAAAAxU/53no2ix4oeY/s1600/how-to-control-population.jpg

^^^ Some of the smartest, most able people live in India. Why not figure out ways to make an Indian Seasteading operation, so that the people can start to move offshore - https://www.seasteading.org/.

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Ah. I was not aware of this project tbh ???. Learned new stuff today, thanks. So quickly looked into it and it does seem interesting, minus political ideology in the Indian context. As of now, it seems very costly and not very beneficial. Maybe in the next decade or so India will find a cost-effective way to do this.

thats very bad for the indian biosphere, thats basically the worlds most popular and famous spice culture.

regards

It seems to me now and so is the decrease in population, we just do not know. You ask how? Simple many diseases that are now not studying, and do not cure them.

One of the best way for me is SEX EDUCATION to silver lining or depressed area.  For they have only Limited knowledge about what can be the cause of having a lot of children.