by gg3 » Tue 14 Mar 2006, 03:01:57
Re. adopting babies from overpopulated countries:
That's called being an "enabler" or "co-dependent." Like cleaning up a substance abuser's puke-soaked and poop-stained clothes & bedding, it just gives them the impression that they can keep doing what they're doing and "someone else" will take care of the side effects.
What I suggest instead is...
1) Total immigration ban on anyone coming in from countries in the top 10% of birth rates. If they want to breed like mice, they can eat each others' offspring like mice.
2) Sliding scale from there on down to countries with ZPG or negative population growth (NPG), who should be able to migrate freely anywhere they choose.
3) And to be consistent, the world would be well served by imposing similar restrictions on raw materials exports to countries that are in the top 10% of resource wastage. Yes, this will cost us here in the good ol' USA, but that's the price we pay for our own substance abuse (resource wastage) habits.
4) Meanwhile, a class action suit against the Catholic Church, demanding that it pay for the costs of feeding, clothing, and sheltering all those babies that result from its stand against birth control. The Pope can put his money where his mouth is, or...
5) Powerdown and negative population growth by the least coercive means possible. Free condom distribution. Promote non-PV forms of sexuality, starting with masturbation. In fact I'd go so far as to do what Clinton's one-time secretary of health hinted at (and got fired for hinting at): Teach masturbation in school, starting about 6th grade. How's this for a slogan: "Spill seed, not blood!"
6) Realistically, none of this is going to happen. Instead what's more likely is the full-on overshoot & collapse routine, four horsemen included, while (to quote HG Wells), humanity "struggles and sinks in a morass, like a blind, stricken thing."