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darkknight109 posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Honestly the US should close it's borders pretty soon, and concentrate on controlling it's own population.

China tried that for a few decades with its One Child policy. It's now widely recognized as a disaster that badly screwed up male/female ratios.

Japan is in a similar boat, being the closest thing to a developed country with closed borders. Years of plummeting birthrates have now produced a country where demographics are so skewed, adult diapers outsell ones for children. This has led to a burgeoning crisis in Japan as massive numbers of retirees strain the social system as there are far fewer working-age citizens to care for them.

China would often kill female babies though, if there was no accidental pregnancies, and no skewing of gender that would not happen.

Japan is very overpopulated and has a large problem with men actually wanting sex, let alone having children. The whole economic thing will be less of a problem as automation becomes more common and the number of jobs reduce greatly.

Meanwhile, closing the borders and ensuring that all pregnancies are planned initially would make a big difference. Honestly any larger restrictions (like only x children per parent) would be very hard to implement. I think if we closed the borders and tied tubes etc around puberty for adults, that would eventually cause our population levels to drop significantly.

The US isn't really that over populated, but I do think we are at a point where we should start focusing on the citizens that are here, and ensuring that they have good lives, their children are supported and loved etc, and reducing our imprint on the world, as apposed to continuing to expand our population anymore.
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