Comments on: Breeding like Flies: The Population Conundrum

By: Bill the Butcher

Bill the Butcher — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:03:13 +0000

@Heather Lynn: No, ants have a built-in population control mechanism. Only the queen breeds, and she breeds as long as she gets pheromonal feedback from her progeny (who are the workers). Once the food supply begins decreasing, she cuts back on egg-laying until the situation improves again.

Ants are smarter than us.

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By: the_big_wedding

the_big_wedding — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:16:41 +0000

Yes, the world is over-populated. I see two choices: A. you can either stop the oligarch’s mechanized export farming, allowing the indigenous people the world over to feed themselves, allow developing countries to develop their own resources without fear of being invaded, undermined, or have their leaders assassinated to be replaced by compliant thugs that will sell their oil and other resources thereby raising their living and educations standards, perhaps fore-stalling forced migrations to developed countries, with attened backlash. These practices could support current and event projected populations for another generation, say 7 to 9 billion, allowing enough time for sex and birth control education to take hold; or B. we can continue the domination of the world by a handful of oligarch’s and their corporations, conniving to gain control of the world’s remaining resources causing chaos, starvation, genocide and mass-murder in the wake of the state-sponsored terror tactics used to undermine and control soveriegn nations.

So, in a nut-shell: A. 7 to 9 billion educated and well-fed poeple without the billionaire oligarchs and their criminal enterprises, or B. 2 to 3 billion starving, servile serfs and a handful of billionaire oligarchs running rough-shod over everyone?

For myself, personally, I perfer choice A.

By: grainnerhuad

grainnerhuad — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:35:52 +0000

Good point Christopher and I watched a documentary about obesity in Chinese Children brought about by the one child rule. With only one child, boys especially are being spoiled in working and middle class families. So there’s that problem too, fat pampered kids usually don’t grow up to be the best of leaders.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:52:09 +0000

While I’ll admit that India is in a population crisis, I contend that the last nation on earth they should be emulating is China – yes their “one-child” policy has curtailed population growth, but it has also set the stage for a mass demographic collapse: because the male children were the favored ones, those were the children that were kept whilst the females were usually disposed of – leading to a gross imbalance of genders to ensure a healthy breeding population after the current generation ages and dies off.

India is handling its population crisis stupidly, but the Chinese are not doing any better.

By: grainnerhuad

grainnerhuad — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:49:19 +0000

The first part reads like almost any textbook on civilization and its many demises. One wonders why the human race thinks they are going to beat this pattern.
However the technology and availability of trade as well as humanitarian aid has kept this cycle from seeing its natural end for far too long.
It isn’t that I think we shouldn’t help one another but I wonder, would women have become more valuable if a civilization were forced to the realization that lack of food and health care means less women who are able to concieve and carry out a pregnacy? Would a civilization try to work with each other and their trade partners better if there were no more options?

By: karlsie

karlsie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:36:39 +0000

I can understand why those living in India might look to China for some answers. They face the same problems with a burgeoning population and limited natural resources, as well as sharing a similar cultural heritage. Frankly, however, i’m surprised that with an embracing of Communist ideals, China didn’t develop a more sensible attitude concerning the worth of women. Because of the worker’s revolution appeal to gender equality, many of the early Communist movements had as many active women participants as they did men. This article implies that China retains a cultural identification of male superiority, even though my impression has been, like most Communist societies, they had dissolved their religious base.

As you know, i am a naturalist who believes whatever our own particular agenda, nature has the final say. This makes me wonder if (she) has contrived a very ingenuous plan. There are many other areas of the world, especially in urbanized communities, where the women out-number the men. Anxiety ridden with the idea they might be left without a mate, many women accept subjugation, abuse and exploitation of their sex in in order to find a legitimate avenue for procreation. Procreation even becomes a means of securing that precious position of opposite gender “ownership”. By breeding primarily men, India could be the first to incorporate male order husbands.

India cannot continue much longer with this status quo of men to women without beginning to experience a shrinking population. Women cannot bear children as rapidly as men can breed them (which makes me think all men unwilling to be fathers should have a vasectomy instead of leaving the women with the responsibility all the time). If the infant mortality rate is high, the death rate will soon overcome the birth rate. Women who are not under pressure to choose mates quickly and live in areas where the number of men to women are equal or higher, are not as driven by their biological clocks.

In other words, i believe both India and China are reaching their peak. India, through its massacre of the female sex, China through the implementation of strict birth control. What to do about the billions that are already here on a planet that is quickly devouring all its resources, is the underlying question behind every moral decision. Our only hope is in developing new, life-sustaining, environmentally sound technology and in realizing if we don’t pull together for the long haul, it’s actually going to be a very short one.

By: heather lynn

heather lynn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:56:41 +0000

Wow, that was brutal….and an excellent read. Shouldn’t the title be breeding like ants?