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When it comes to population control and China, there's no such thing as "it's way too late to change." China can enforce mandatory population growth easily eno
by barkingcat 6y ago
When it comes to population control and China, there's no such thing as "it's way too late to change."
China can enforce mandatory population growth easily enough (anyone wanting a marriage license must produce a child within 6 months, if not, the marriage is annulled), and if that is on the 10-15 year time horizon, they can easily allow cloning technology be used on humans for the short term.
- pmontra 6y ago> anyone wanting a marriage license must produce a child within 6 months So they start 3 months in advance? /s Whatever, I think it's much easier to limit the number of children than to enforce a minimum. Both can be very unwelcomed for many reasons I don't want to get into, but not everybody can have children.
- barkingcat 6y agoThat's the point though, if the spouse cannot have a child, the marriage is annulled and the fertile partner gets a different spouse. The idea is, "unwelcomed" is not an issue. In the Uighur regions, China is already practicing a form of marriage enforcement to make sure there's more han babies in the region.
- newen 6y agoWhere are you getting this information from?
- gruez 6y agoSo couples will just... not marry?
- inglor_cz 6y agoYou could theoretically levy an extra tax from childless people over certain age. That might work a bit in a non-democracy, where those people have no vote over their taxation levels.