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How do you feel about the fact that there are 7+ billion people on the planet, population wise?


As well as the fact that humanity has existed for say tens of thousands of years, is all of this too much, not enough or about right or just normal? Cheers.

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And it’s the poor who are breeding. I saw a show about poverty in Argentina and people who live in abandoned train carriages had 8 kids each. Then they interviewed an old man and he said he’d had 27 kids in his lifetime. WTF? Why are they breeding so much? So poverty breeds poverty and that has to stop.

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Gives me hope to find my soulmate?

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I know my history.

I watched Planet of the Apes.

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I think it's too much. We are running thin on resources. People are living longer and there is much less death due to modern medicine. 150 years ago people would have 5+ kids and half of those kids would die early due to disease or famine, but now people live much longer and most people have kids of their own. Obviously overpopulation is much more serious in some areas than others. I'm not saying people shouldn't have kids, but I don't think people should be having more than two or three.

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Not at all comfortable. People want to live like first worlders but breed like third worlders and it's simply unsustainable.

Either the first world takes it upon itself to forcibly apply baby-making brakes to the rest of the world, or, the third world overruns and eats the first world and lowers all our life expectancies back to a dark-age equilibrium. :-/

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