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David Attenborough wants to lower the global population
- gaius 18y agoI'd take him a bit more seriously on this if he flew a little less. But like Al Gore, austerity is for other people.
- ftse 18y agoWe could start with him.
- grunties 18y agoNice to see someone who gets noticed pointing it out. The blindingly obvious shouldn't need pointing out by anyone, of course, but hey, people as a whole are mind-numbingly stupid.
- behe 18y agoWe could start with the Chinese. They breed like rabbits. Edit: Downvote me if you like, but you know it's true.
- AndrewDucker 18y agoHe doesn't seem to have realised that the birth rate in most of the EU is _already_ below replenishment rate.
- grunties 18y agoOr, he knows full well but thinks that holding the population steady at 'too many for the world to cope with' is an issue that still needs addressing...
- jballanc 18y agoUuuugggghhhh... not more of this... Look, people, global over-population is probably one of the easiest, most straight-forward problems to solve, and the solution is really, really easy: EDUCATE WOMEN I'm sort on time, but I can dig up the references later today if anyone wants. The strongest correlating factor with fertility rate is the education level of a population's women. When women are educated, fertility rate settles just above 2 children per women, which is right where you'd need it to keep global population static.
- stewiecat 18y agoAlong these lines is educating couples that having a family isn't a necessity in order to be considered 'normal'. My girlfriend (pseudo-wife at this point) and I get shocked looks from people when we tell them that we aren't having children, as if we need to have children in order to be considered a Normal American Family (tm).
- anamax 18y ago> EDUCATE WOMEN Actually, TVs are enough. I don't recall whether it's more effective to give them to men or women.
- vixen99 18y agoFirst step is to determine how many world births are currently unwelcome. Do we know this? If the number is small then coercion to achieve this aim is unavoidable. That's a bit euphemistic. Better say, explicit or implicit (chemical treatment of the water?) implementation by force. Serious proposals to say the least. Shouldn't Attenborough tell us what he has in mind before throwing out such a suggestion?
- mhb 18y agoGiven the disparity in birthrates between immigrants and native Britains this is going to be politically impossible to advocate in any meaningful way.