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[Erthona]

I was just thinking we could decrease the population by not having so many babies to begin with. I mean that is the problem at the moment isn't it. If you cut through the bullshit, we have more people than the planet can support...right now. Cutting the population in half without having to kill or eat anyone. Of course if you tell people that a couple can have no more than one child they will be terrible upset, despite the fact that, that behavior is what is destroying our world. That is what will eventually happen one way or another. We may have to go through a series of wars before it finally dawns on people that, that is what is going to happen once we pass a certain threshold. But we could solve most of the global problems by simply halving the population over the next two generation and keeping it there. With only 2 billion people in the world and our current technology, most people would have a fairly high standard of living. Children would be better supervised and better educated as there would be less of them, making them a more precious resource. This would lead to less crime and less unemployment. Of course people will not do this of their own accord, and once the government gets control of your reproductive rights you become it's hostage. Then this generation we are in will be the last that actually saw something resembling freedom, if for no other reason as they will not stop with reproductive rights, and they will now have the power to do so. They already have the will today to do that, just not the power. Certainly anything that inflames the blood will be banned. That would be most poetry...well, or at least most good poetry!

Dale