Whenever population control is mentioned, this inevitably comes up. No, not looking to “remove” anyone, just prevent more births than the natural environment can handle.
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And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks agoSo you want to remove half of the population, like Thanos?
shiftymccool@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
finitebanjo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I want to passivle watch half of them die while not replacing them. Huge difference.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Isn’t there a book with such a story that they investigate some dangerous bomb thingy that turns out to just make about half the population not able to have babies?
I think they made a movie which sucks out of it
I think it is the same writer as has written davinci code
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
2/3. gives you an extra generation before things are back where they were
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Or just limit1 baby per couple, same effect. Population halves every life cycle
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if memory serves, last time that was attempted it did not work.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Carrot vs stick.
Just give incentives to voluntarily have less kids. Heck, even just education, high wages, and social mobility (particularly for women) typically drops the birth rate at or under 1 child anyway.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Better ensure perfect women/men equality before doing that, otherwise it leads to a big gender disbalance and high infanticide rate for girls, as was demonstrated in China.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Absolutely, that’s a bigger fight altogether
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, Thanos’ plan may have been popular if he used the infinity stones to reward mothers for limiting their children, using societal pressure and other tools to limit populations for a generation.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Would vote for Thanos
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
He just had to convince males to not fuck with their cum active (e.g. doing vasectomy and reverse it as time comes). This would make hormones of women less fucked with, and male people would learn that it is not “she is just being woman”, but realise it was fucking hormone engineering.
🫣 but how should males learn that in a society where sexual education is shown as evil (like yea, we changed everything on this world and teach our children anything, but o noo please don’t tell them how reproduction works, so they just try something out and are fucked for live)