financial incentives to address human overpopulation

Malcolm.

ILW wrote: »

In this country we seem to incentivise people to have as many children as possible. Very strange.

Many people's nursery bill's are over 10k a year.

ninky_2

julieq wrote: »

Or if we decide we'd prefer to listen to something at a slightly higher level of intellectual depth than the Daily Mail, how about:

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7723/

This is one of the most apt bits:

"There is a reason Malthusians are always wrong. It isn’t because they’re stupid… well, it might be a little bit because they’re stupid. But more fundamentally it is because, while they present their views as fact-based and scientific, in reality they are driven by a deeply held misanthropy that continually overlooks mankind’s ability to overcome problems and create new worlds.

The language used to justify population scaremongering has changed dramatically over the centuries. In the time of Malthus in the eighteenth century the main concern was with the fecundity of poor people. In the early twentieth century there was a racial and eugenic streak to population-reduction arguments. Today they have adopted environmentalist language to justify their demands for population reduction."

surprised to find you quoting and supporting a former living marxism journo.......perhaps not surprising to find he supports "the masses". i don't fall for his anti-environmentalism masquerading as humanism however.

Malcolm.

ninky wrote: »

most of the lonely people in old people's homes / growing old in a chair have family. but that family are busy with their own lives. long gone are the days when the norm was to keep your old folk at home with you. i wouldn't want to inflict that responsibility on my kids anyway.

There are some care homes which do everything possible to keep the elderly infirm alive. This includes placing a tube in their mouth and force feeding them when they're unable to feed themself. If it were me, I think I'd prefer pass away peacefully with dignity.

julieq

Far be it from me to gatecrash the neo-Malthusian party which is even now mongering itself up to a frenzy of doom.

I'll leave you to your worrying. If a few of you wouldn't mind dying it'd certainly cheer the planet up a bit, as well as making a bit of space for the rest of us. Ta.

Graham_Devon

julieq wrote: »

I'll leave you to your worrying. If a few of you wouldn't mind dying it'd certainly cheer the planet up a bit, as well as making a bit of space for the rest of us. Ta.

Oof.

Someones feathers ruffled? Did someone not agree with you?

julieq

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Oof.

Someones feathers ruffled? Did someone not agree with you?

Oh for heaven's sake Graham, where did you get that from?

I was being SARCASTIC.

Generali

julieq wrote: »

Far be it from me to gatecrash the neo-Malthusian party which is even now mongering itself up to a frenzy of doom.

I'll leave you to your worrying. If a few of you wouldn't mind dying it'd certainly cheer the planet up a bit, as well as making a bit of space for the rest of us. Ta.

Is it just me or has this board become filled by posters that just want to frotter themselves into a frenzy of orgasmic doom? It always has been a bit of a glass half empty board but it's getting a bit out of hand IMHO.

Loughton_Monkey

Generali wrote: »

Is it just me or has this board become filled by posters that just want to frotter themselves into a frenzy of orgasmic doom? It always has been a bit of a glass half empty board but it's getting a bit out of hand IMHO.

Probably just you.

Don't understand the bit about glass half empty... In most cases, the thing's not only empty, but has been bone dry for years. Most of the doom merchants, I'm sure, can't afford a drink anyway, as they sit there reading all this stuff....

But just to summarise.

• House prices are going to fall 70%.
• Stock market will follow.
• Fractional Reserve Banking will cause complete meltdown of the world's bank and government reserves. Back to stone age economy.
• All children will be eaten.
• Old people will all be shot (can't afford care homes)
• Global nuclear war.
• Kate & William's wedding cake will fall over at the reception...

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Sir David Attenborough stated that for the population to rise X billion we only have to wait until the people in the developing world get older. We'll add another 3 or so billion simply from the kids who are already born and the adults who had them who would, in past times, simply have died but who will now survive.

Personally, I'd invest in Dignitas and the like and envisage a Logan's Run expiry date around 80, thus also conveniently sorting out the pension problems at the same time.

chewmylegoff

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Probably just you.

Don't understand the bit about glass half empty... In most cases, the thing's not only empty, but has been bone dry for years. Most of the doom merchants, I'm sure, can't afford a drink anyway, as they sit there reading all this stuff....

But just to summarise.

• House prices are going to fall 70%.
• Stock market will follow.
• Fractional Reserve Banking will cause complete meltdown of the world's bank and government reserves. Back to stone age economy.
• All children will be eaten.
• Old people will all be shot (can't afford care homes)
• Global nuclear war.
• Kate & William's wedding cake will fall over at the reception...

you forgot to mention the effect that this will have on the price of silver. i expect most of the rest of the silver in the world will be in or on that cake, so it could have serious ramifications. i recommend that you buy silver, a lot, right now, and then use it to build a house.