Condom?

[Adelheid]

Inspired by a report that the population of the UK, currently 60,000,000, will have risen to 150,000,000 by 2040 if the rate of increase stays at present levels. Which it will, because we're stupid.


Population figures adjusted to meet maximum sustainable global population of one billion. Requests taken.

Rank-Country-Present Population-Adjusted Population

1 China[5] 1,333,740,000 - 222,290,000
2 India 1,171,660,000 - 195,276,666
3 United States 307,792,000 - 5,128,666
4 Indonesia 229,965,000
5 Brazil 192,054,000
6 Pakistan 167,786,500
7 Bangladesh 162,221,000
8 Nigeria 154,729,000
9 Russia 141,881,000 - 23,646,833
10 Japan 127,540,000 - 21,256,666
11 Mexico 107,550,697
12 Philippines 92,226,600
13 Vietnam 85,789,573
14 Germany 82,002,000 - 13,667,000
15 Ethiopia 79,221,000
16 Egypt 77,279,837
17 Iran 74,196,000
18 Turkey 71,517,100
19 Dem. Rep. of Congo 66,020,000
20 France [7] 65,073,482 - 10,845,580
21 Thailand 63,389,730
22 United Kingdom 61,634,599 - 10,272,433
23 Italy 60,157,214
24 Myanmar (Burma) 50,020,000
25 South Africa 49,320,500
26 South Korea 48,333,000
27 Ukraine 46,029,281
28 Spain 45,967,632 - 7,661,272
29 Colombia 45,117,683
30 Tanzania 43,739,000
31 Argentina 40,134,425
32 Kenya 39,802,000
33 Sudan 39,154,490
34 Poland 38,100,700
35 Algeria 34,895,000
36 Canada 33,823,000
37 Uganda 32,710,000
38 Morocco 31,602,540
39 Iraq 30,747,000
40 Nepal 29,331,000
41 Peru 29,132,013
42 Venezuela 28,501,797
43 Malaysia 28,310,000
44 Afghanistan 28,150,000
45 Uzbekistan 27,488,000
46 Saudi Arabia 25,721,000
47 North Korea 24,051,706
48 Ghana 23,837,000
49 Yemen 23,580,000
50 Taiwan[8] 23,069,345
51 Mozambique 22,894,000
52 Australia[9] 21,953,000 - 3,658,833
53 Syria 21,906,000
54 Romania 21,498,616
55 Côte d'Ivoire 21,075,000
56 Sri Lanka 20,238,000
57 Madagascar 19,625,000
58 Cameroon 19,522,000
59 Angola 18,498,000
60 Chile 16,982,000
61 Netherlands 16,558,674 - 2,759,779
62 Kazakhstan 15,776,492
63 Burkina Faso 15,757,000
64 Niger 15,290,000
65 Malawi 15,263,000
66 Cambodia 14,805,000
67 Ecuador 14,056,999
68 Guatemala 14,027,000
69 Mali 13,010,000
70 Zambia 12,935,000
71 Senegal 12,534,000
72 Zimbabwe 12,523,000
73 Greece 11,257,285
74 Chad 11,206,000
75 Cuba 11,204,000
76 Belgium 10,754,528 - 1,792,421
77 Portugal 10,627,250
78 Czech Republic 10,476,543
79 Tunisia 10,327,800
80 Dominican Republic 10,090,000
81 Guinea 10,069,000
82 Haiti 10,033,000
83 Hungary 10,031,208
84 Rwanda 9,998,000
85 Bolivia 9,879,000
86 Serbia[10] 9,850,000
87 Belarus 9,671,900
88 Sweden 9,316,256 - 1,552,709
89 Somalia[11] 9,133,000
90 Benin 8,935,000
91 Azerbaijan 8,896,900
92 Austria 8,355,260
93 Burundi 8,303,000
94 Switzerland 7,745,900
95 Bulgaria 7,606,551
96 Honduras 7,466,000
97 Israel [12] 7,459,900
98 Hong Kong 7,008,900
99 Tajikistan 6,952,000
100 Papua New Guinea
101 Togo 6,619,000
102 Libya 6,420,000
103 Paraguay 6,349,000
104 Laos 6,320,000
105 Jordan 6,316,000
106 El Salvador 6,163,000
107 Nicaragua 5,743,000
108 Sierra Leone 5,696,000
109 Denmark 5,519,441
110 Kyrgyzstan 5,482,000
111 Slovakia 5,413,548
112 Finland [13] 5,348,306
113 Turkmenistan 5,110,000
114 Eritrea 5,073,000
115 Singapore 4,987,600
116 Norway [14] 4,842,000
117 United Arab Emirates 4,599,000
118 Costa Rica 4,579,000
119 Ireland 4,459,300
120 Croatia 4,435,056
121 Central African Republic
122 Georgia [15] 4,385,400
123 New Zealand 4,328,300
124 Lebanon 4,224,000
125 Puerto Rico 3,982,000
126 Bosnia and Herzegovina
127 Palestine 3,761,646
128 Republic of the Congo 3,683,000
129 Moldova [16] 3,567,500
130 Liberia 3,476,608
131 Panama 3,454,000
132 Uruguay 3,361,000
133 Lithuania 3,349,872
134 Mauritania 3,291,000
135 Armenia 3,230,100
136 Albania 3,170,000
137 Kuwait 2,985,000
138 Oman 2,845,000
139 Jamaica 2,719,000
140 Mongolia 2,671,000
141 Latvia 2,254,000
142 Namibia 2,171,000
143 Lesotho 2,067,000
144 Republic of Macedonia
145 Slovenia 2,047,009
146 Botswana 1,950,000
147 Gambia 1,705,000
148 Guinea-Bissau 1,611,000
149 Gabon 1,475,000
150 Qatar 1,409,000

Of 223 countries.
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tl;dr
Use a ****ing condom.

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

Reproduction is for stewbags. And rabbits.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Terraform antarctica and the sahara, as the world warms up, more arable land may become available. Mass producing synthetic foods, and genetically enhance crops to give more produce. Population will then begin to decrease as people who complain about genetically enhanced crops saying "It's against nature duuuude!!!" will refuse to eat anything and die out.

Or

Nuclear war detroys most/all life so population isn't a problem.

Or

We could all wear condoms...

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

I say we really need to start going to other planets. Earth is getting boring now anyway.

 

[Forgetful]

I say we have to make each country produce the food they consume. If you can't sustain your population then you starve.

Also American fundamentalist groups going to Uganda and promoting hate need to be stopped at all costs...

"In March, American anti-gay activists traveled to Uganda for a conference that pledged to “wipe out” homosexuality."

We need the GLBTs they slow population growth. Hell half of them adopt, which is even better!

Source

 

[Kantham]

tl;dr
Use a ****ing condom.

Condom sex is the worse thing you can imagine in that area. That's pretty much just to say that argument itself is wrong, and because people screw around without them is raising population status - ever heard of birth control?

You probably never had sex without it to feel the difference.

 

[Rambowjo]

I think we should let the Earth overpopulate and die so that Kantham can have sex without condoms.

 

[NeoNite]

I say we really need to start going to other planets. Earth is getting boring now anyway.

Which other planets?

 

[Kantham]

Which other planets?

That ones that our traveling technology really can't afford, let alone light speed lolol.

 

[NeoNite]

Iirc scientists have found planets, but they're very close to smaller stars (brown dwarfs? Or worse: white dwarfs and neutron stars.) Most of those planets are the size of jupiter iirc. (someone correct me if I'm making a mistake). Sometimes there are two-three planet (like masses?) orbiting small stars and the farthest one orbits at a distance as mercury does to our yellow sun.
Finding earth like planets is going to be one hell of a dilly challenge.
Hey, it's a big galaxy.

Sometimes I fear we are truly living on an unique planet. When you think about all the good fortune it was given (protected by our giant neighbour jupiter f.e.), the perfect distance to a perfect star, the right amount of mass, water, atmosphere...etc.
Earth must be unique? Though, I really hope sooner than later we'll discover replicaes (if possible) of our magnificent world. But there are those terrible distances...
Bah, I'll never find out. At the end of this century, how much progress will man have made in this regard. It's somewhat frustrating, but that's just the way things are. We're not build to last.

Heck, mars wouldn't even be a suitable living ground. For now, perhaps.
The planet is too small anyway. And ice cold. And the poisonous atmosphere. Hmmm, we're stuck on our beautiful blue planet for now.

 

[TWD]

The resources that the earth provides can go a lot long than anyone things. We simply haven't had the need to develop that kind of efficiency yet. Fears of overpopulation is nothing more than the same baseless fear mongering that has gone on for decades. When overpopulation really becomes an issue then we will be more than capable of meeting that challenge head on. Until then you'll have to excuse my apathy.

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

Which other planets?

Well obviously it's not really possible to travel far enough to find suitable planets, but it should be. Humans have been here for thousands of years they should of been working on space travel as soon as possible, it should be top priority not much else matters now everything's basically done on earth, it won't get any better it will just get worse. Humans should have spread of into other planets it would be cool. They're so slow. Money and stupid stuff shouldn't be an issue.
I deffinitly think there is other planets like Earth.

 

[briach]

This is why they are developing viruses and a vaccine infrastructure so that they can release a very dangerous form of a virus and then declare state of global emergency and enforce mandatory vaccinations while also forming camps.

Little will everyone know the vaccines will carry insanely high doses of squalene and polysorbate 80, which effectively infertilizes 90% of the people that were administered the vaccine. But the other 10% has a risk of having a baby with birth defects, so this would cause a baby making industry, people have to get artificially inseminated and take pharmaceuticals in order to have a baby. And no this isn't covered by insurance, duh. But most idealist and eugenic driven people are not really trustworthy.

This is so the poor people stop having babies. No money? Less than 5,000$ in the bank? Then no baby. They also can unofficially monopolize the industry and everyone that wants to get artificially inseminated will risk being a genetic experiment as the scientist will start using genetic modifying technology to make sure there "aren't any defects", but in reality they are playing around with the DNA, to make the babies less fertile so that they can continue making people pay for having babies, and also they can put whatever genetic strengths or weaknesses they desire into the next generation, the incentive being their own power, and a more esthetically pleasing society.

Another thing the first rounds of vaccine will most likely not be tested by a third party that isn't in the circle, so they will make high priority vaccinations for those at most risk 0-24 years of age, and pregnant women. So they can be assured the next generation will be "fixed". But to be honest most people probably wont care, because they are all idiots that think having sex is more important than caring for their progeny and instilling good values.

The only reason I'm against this is I think most people that conspire and in the private circle of power are generally douchebags, same thing with scientists. Majority of the successful are all full of themselves and do everything they do for sustenance, very close-minded and don't know anything about altruism or spirituality, that is the reason why I decided to change career paths.

 

[NeoNite]

Bit like in serenity, you mean?

Maybe our planet line-up is also something out of the ordinary? Maybe most solar systems do have planets very close to their star.

Our bodies are probably too weak for long space travel. Orbiting earth is one thing, but actually going out there in the vast darkness...
Heck, maybe far future generations of men will be able to download their mind into robotic clones, and so protect themselves from the hostile environments of space.
Bleh, dreaming again.

I really hope that in my lifetime the first people will set foot on mars. But I'd be really surprised. Though, it's the year 2009 and who knows how many more advances we'll make. Sudden realisations, breakthroughs etc. Isn't it theorised to be a 18 month trip to our small neighbor? That's a long time.

Money is a real problem. Hell, I also hope that we'll be able to return to the moon by 2020, but I doubt it.

 

[Igoy]

I don't really know why you made the UK's raise in population such a big deal; it's not even in the top 10.

 

[Zxanphorian]

The resources that the earth provides can go a lot long than anyone things. We simply haven't had the need to develop that kind of efficiency yet. Fears of overpopulation is nothing more than the same baseless fear mongering that has gone on for decades. When overpopulation really becomes an issue then we will be more than capable of meeting that challenge head on. Until then you'll have to excuse my apathy.

We are overpopulated based on the current system. If we had a 100% efficient system to distribute food/water and other vital resources, we would have a generous surplus of food and resources even if everyone in the world gets an equal amount. The sad thing is that our system is very unoptimized and very inefficient. (Also, wouldn't this seem like "spreading the wealth"? )

And yes, we can survive well right now, but the problem is that it is unsustainable. Generally, we can live like kings right now, but our children and descendants will suffer the consequences. I fear that my generation will be the last generation that can live properly in this current system. Our children will have to foot the bill.

The main problem here is that people do not see a problem until it hits them square in the face. We will constantly be looking for a cure for an ailment, before they even consider what the causes of the problem were. Sometimes, the causes are easily preventable. The frog and boiling water analogy that Al Gore had in the Inconvenient Truth is a great example of this.

As far as terraforming other planets, that is the most unfeasible idea of them all. Hell, we can't even get back to walking on the moon easily and quickly.

All in all, saying that we haven't had the need to develop the need for more efficiency now is ridiculous. You say that when overpopulation becomes a problem (which it is a problem now, in the present), we will be more than able to combat the issue. I believe that we will not be able to do it, but we have, by experience, survived before against near impossible odds. But do we really have to suffer in the future, instead of not having the problem in the first place?

Yeah, we don't have a population issue yet...

 

[DarQraven]

Condom sex is the worse thing you can imagine in that area. That's pretty much just to say that argument itself is wrong, and because people screw around without them is raising population status - ever heard of birth control?

You probably never had sex without it to feel the difference.

I have, and you need to find yourself a tighter girl/better condoms if it's such a problem to you. Or don't get boozed up before sex, doesn't help either.

If I have to make the choice between having sex without a condom or actually having any form of earth as we know it left in 80 years, I'll gladly get myself some rubbers.

(Also, wouldn't this seem like "spreading the wealth"? )

That, sir, is SOCIALIST!

 

[Forgetful]

Condom sex is the worse thing you can imagine in that area. That's pretty much just to say that argument itself is wrong, and because people screw around without them is raising population status - ever heard of birth control?

You probably never had sex without it to feel the difference.

Birth control drugs cost way to much money to implement properly in poor countries. Birth control drugs are also tailored to their user and that again would raise the costs and make the implementation near impossible. People can't afford to see Doctors for things that make them sick let alone getting their birth control dosage balanced.

 

[theabyss]

The Spanish Flu is the worlds reset button.

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

Heck, maybe far future generations of men will be able to download their mind into robotic clones.

I hope so. I hope machines do take over. It's definitely the way to go.
Much more efficient than humans as well, the earth would be much better of.

Money is a real problem..

It shouldn't be though