What will happen when there is a shortage of women?

[Oreoracle]

It amuses me that many people are debating what should be done to curb population growth, considering that our global population has doubled in only 50 years. Meanwhile, the Catholics are lamenting over a population shortage. What, is the human population increasing by 1 billion every decade (perhaps even faster in our lifetimes) not enough for you?

 

[Giggly_Giraffe]

It amuses me that many people are debating what should be done to curb population growth, considering that our global population has doubled in only 50 years. Meanwhile, the Catholics are lamenting over a population shortage. What, is the human population increasing by 1 billion every decade (perhaps even faster in our lifetimes) not enough for you?

Overpopulation has been used as a fear controller for a millennium. When whales were almost killed to extinction for making candles. Should we have stopped reproducing because of this need? Thanks to the birth of Thomas Edison, the whales were saved and we now have lights, and all that use light (cars, computers, ect).

Now, the Chinese have been practicing the theology of population control for some time now. This caused a portion of them to select males over females. This causes an imbalance and future problems for males.

I was on FB and they showed all the pollution in beautiful China. Many people cried more population control. However, the population control is NOT WORKING for their enviroment. What does work is environmental boundaries, human rights boundaries, and government boundaries. All of which China has tossed for population control and manufacturing jobs. When was the last time you saw something “Made in Italy”, “Made in France”, or anywhere else in countries with environmental boundaries, labor boundaries, or government boundaries .

Should population control cause anymore fear in society, they will start executing the elderly to maintain the population. Then they will select optimal males and females and breed them like dogs and horses. Is this enough to quench your fears over population control? Maybe in the future we will only experience sex through a virtual medium and sanitize the whole process.

 

[Oreoracle]

Overpopulation has been used as a fear controller for a millennium. When whales were almost killed to extinction for making candles. Should we have stopped reproducing because of this need?

Somehow you interpreted a lack of concern for a population shortage as advocacy for population control.

All I’m saying is that if the human population starts dropping in my lifetime, I will literally eat my hat. Not only has it shown no signs of decreasing in 200 years, the rate at which it is increasing has shown no sign of decreasing in that time. Not even close. It has accelerated exponentially for two centuries with no signs of slowing down.

Do I think we need population control to stop it? Not really. We already know what happens to species when their population reaches carrying capacity: it stays fluctuating slightly above and slightly below that line. Humans are quite adept at exploiting resources, so we probably won’t reach carrying capacity based on a lack of resources. Most likely our limiting factor will be economic concerns. It will become too much of a financial burden to have too many kids, so people will regulate their own reproduction with or without a policy telling them to do so.

 

[DaveBj]

You two are reminding me of that treatise that a woman needs a man who is a good provider, a man who shares the housework, a man who is good in bed and to make sure these men never meet.

Made me giggle

I do loathe abortion for any reason and the apologetics industry that has surrounded it for the past several decades. That said, at my age (approaching 70, and all to quickly), a potential lack of marriageable young women is not something that is high on my list of personal concerns.