Jack wrote:perdition79 wrote:The best solution would be to cut all humanitarian aid. Period.
Exactly. What happens when one mitigates the impact of population overshoot?
More overshoot! Which means that whatever misery exists today will be multiplied in the future.
I don't agree. I think the best solution would be to help those peoples learn to live within the ecological limits of their areas by teaching them sustainable farming practices, by empowering women, and by providing on-demand birth control.
Cutting food aid would be the easiest solution, but not the best, in my opinion. Unless by "best" you mean "kills the most fastest."
But those starving folks aren't the problem, we First Worlders are the problem, as far as resources. Everyone is always so hot to kill off the poor, when it is those living as we do who are the problem. The US, with about 5% of the world's population, uses about 25% of the world's resources. If you want to kill off resource hogs, kill off Americans, starting with Texans, who are the biggest resource hogs on the planet.
Now if your desire to kill off a large chunk of the population is because of some esthetic ideal and not because of resource depletion, then I guess you can kill off whomever you find most objectionable.