Overpopulation - Is the US Government Secretly Controlling Us?

[Slash]

I've thought numerous times about the fact of overpopulation, here in the US.


http://newsflavor.com/opinions/population-control-programs-in-use-by-the-us-government/


http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar99/population2399.html


http://fathersforlife.org/health/population_control.htm


http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1711154,00.html





And perhaps the most interesting:



http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/populationcontrolagenda2.htm




Is the US Government taking steps to reduce the population? We are overpopulated, no doubt.

H1N1 (aka Swine Flu), was it released by the Government to secretly kill off some of us? Would they really have conjured up some crazy story to tell us?

What about HIV/AIDS, some beleive the same thing.

9/11, was it a legit attack, or was it something carefully planned and carried out to fool us?

What about abortion, is it a form of population control?

Does the US REALLY decided who lives and who dies?

Is the gorvernment only keeping smoking legal so that at the end of the century, one billion people will die?

That artical raises some good points, and there are many others out there that do as well.








I personally say no to all of this, but some of it makes me raise an eyebrow...You've got to wonder...

 

[Recon]

With 7 billion people on Earth, yes there are 1 too many of us. I agree with overpopulation, but if the government wanted to decrease the population then they'd start a nuclear war with china. (Interpret that however you'd like )

 

[Camaroyenko]

Wouldn't surprise me since every single person in the government is a crook (especially including Obama)

 

[CodeRedR51]

If they want to control the population, they need to start with the Duggars and work their way down. There is absolutely NO reason why you should have 19 kids. These people make me sick.

 

[Slash]

If they want to control the population, they need to start with the Duggars and work their way down. There is absolutely NO reason why you should have 19 kids. These people make me sick.

That I agree with.

 

[homeforsummer]

Some of those things are just stupid. 3000 people dying at 9/11 will have largely no bearing at all on population, even if you take into account the thousands who've died since as a result of the war it spawned. Likewise AIDS - something that results in the deaths of a relatively low number of people, in the U.S. at least. And since abortion is optional (or indeed illegal in some places) it can hardly be considered a form of population control. As for smoking, it has too many financial benefits for big business and in taxation to ban it, which seems more likely than for population control - especially considering that smokers, though more likely to die early, are still generally popping their clogs from middle-age onwards rather than actually slowing birth rates.

Largely sounds like crackpot conspiracy theorizing, to me.

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Reagan didn't pay any attention to the AIDS epidemic in the early 80s.


Now that's some A+ darn' tootin' population control right there. 👍

 

[terminator363]

I honestly think there should be a limit of two children per couple. Use condoms jeez. Stop being ignorant.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I honestly think there should be a limit of two children per couple. Use condoms jeez. Stop being ignorant.

My mom was watching a show last night where the people were at a high school reunion. They were giving out awards and had one for the "person with the most kids". Some guy had 4, so the prize he got was a box of condoms.

 

[The Bman]

My mom was watching a show last night where the people were at a high school reunion. They were giving out awards and had one for the "person with the most kids". Some guy had 4, so the prize he got was a box of condoms.

Hahaha. Made me crack up!

This is just why I will not have kids. At all.

 

[Grayfox]

They have a plan at work.

Pizza is a vegetable.

Obesity kills

 

[Encyclopedia]

Is the earth really over populated or are some people simply using to much resources?

 

[terminator363]

My mom was watching a show last night where the people were at a high school reunion. They were giving out awards and had one for the "person with the most kids". Some guy had 4, so the prize he got was a box of condoms.

Ohhh snap! 👍

 

[PeterJB]

Is the earth really over populated or are some people simply using to much resources?

I think there is room to spare. The human population is just very unevenly distributed.

 

[TankAss95]

Is the earth really over populated or are some people simply using to much resources?

In theory we could fit all 7 billion of the worlds population in one city the size of France. Space isn't the issue here, resources are.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Whatever happened to building up? Like skyscrapers and such. Does everyone really need their own house and yard? Sure it would be nice, but why not large buildings with a reasonably sized park. Heck, why not put the park on-top of the building?

 

[Crispy]

^Once a couple crazies move in, you'll be scraping mama's and papa's off the ground below.

Solution: Make all crazy people live on the ground, that way we can watch as they duel to the death.

In all seriousness, people like the Duggars are the people that need to be population controlled. If you really want that many children, adopt. Oh right I forgot, with our current society, the fact you can push them out of your lady garden instantly lands you a contract with TLC, just go on ahead and make more.

Solution: Nuke TLC.

 

[niky]

H1N1 is a pretty terrible form of population control. It's just not deadly enough.

If you want to curb the population, you release a new strain of Smallpox every few years. Nothing else available now even comes close.

 

[Azuremen]

Oh look another thread about crazy ideas.

Quick, someone better find the Chemtrails thread. They can talk about how those are for population control as well, all part of some master plan. Clearly.

Smallpox would do wonders on the population though. And by wonders, I mean molest it harder than zombies at a science fair.

 

[Downhill Dino]

I thought kids get smallpox shots these days though? Most of 'em as far as I know.

 

[rocko100]

Smallpox scares me.

 

[hambone8611]

H1N1 is a pretty terrible form of population control. It's just not deadly enough.

If you want to curb the population, you release a new strain of Smallpox every few years. Nothing else available now even comes close.

We’ll just need some blankets

 

[niky]

I thought kids get smallpox shots these days though? Most of 'em as far as I know.

Not anymore. Smallpox is officially dead. I was one of the first kids of the 70's in the US not to get a vaccination... had to do with allergies of some sort, if I recall right. Almost couldn't travel because of it!

And yet, despite smallpox having been eradicated, we still keep samples of live smallpox in underground bunkers, just in case it ever shows up again...

 

[Encyclopedia]

In theory we could fit all 7 billion of the worlds population in one city the size of France. Space isn't the issue here, resources are.

I was not talking about space I was talking about resources. People in well developed western countries, especially Americans use a rediculous amount of resources per person. So before one talks about overpopulation when it comes to resources, one has to consider wether or not it's right that the usage is so skewed,

It feels a bit wrong when people in the western world complain about overpopulation when we contribute a lot more per person than people in developing countries..

 

[homeforsummer]

I was not talking about space I was talking about resources. People in well developed western countries, especially Americans use a rediculous amount of resources per person. So before one talks about overpopulation when it comes to resources, one has to consider wether or not it's right that the usage is so skewed,

It feels a bit wrong when people in the western world complain about overpopulation when we contribute a lot more per person than people in developing countries..

The West uses a greater proportion of resources per-head than countries like India and particularly Africa, you're right.

However, re-distribution of wealth and resources is a very difficult argument because the reason it's all like it is in the first place is down to how civilisation has progressed in those different parts of the world down to a mixture of geographical location, politics and industrialisation.

For example: It isn't the West's fault that there are millions of people dying of starvation in Africa because they're consuming resources, it's the result of people living in an area with very little in the way of resources, a climate that's poor for agriculture and often, a dictatorial government that looks after number one and not its people.

Likewise the success of the U.S. as a world superpower in only a relatively short space of time human civilisation-wise is down to a largely temperate climate for productive agriculture, good access to natural resources, a diverse population formed from several already well-industrialised countries and a largely democratic constitution that by-and-large puts the people and the nation first. Obviously there have been a few wars and a bit of a genocide on the way which could be considered a bit dubious, but to a certain degree the consumption-per-head of someone in America is dictated by too many factors to say it's "wrong".

In other words, no one human deserves a better life than any other human, but when someone is making their contribution to an industrialised society they're essentially entitled to use they money they earn however they see fit. If that means stuffing their face with greasy burgers or owning a 5mpg Hummer, then those are just the spoils of a free country, however "wrong" it seems.

It's also worth noting that population increase in developed countries is generally much lower than that of developing countries (even considering the high death rates in developing countries), so you could argue that developing countries might have a better chance of being prosperous if they weren't breeding at such a rate.

 

[Pupik]

Who needs the government to steadily harm the population? So many are offing themselves thanks to obesity, heart disease, smoking, drugs, alcohol, dumb driving, inept gunplay, depression, et al, without any government or taxpayer assistance whatsoever.

It's really hard to get dead people to pay taxes.

 

[Crispy]

It has been shown in history that when the Earth has too much of a certain population then that population will be dropped considerably by nature, usually in the form of disease.

There have been many diseases reported in humanity, some being smallpox, that killed a large number of people. Problem is, humans keep creating vaccines to defeat these diseases. There's almost always something to combat a disease, but with our governments releasing these vaccines to the public, nature will have to create an even more deadly disease that kills off a good number of people before we even realize it's too late. Something like zombies would do the work.

Although, we have a greater chance of a zombie apocalypse through a biochemical attack, rather than a natural disease hidden in some unexplored cave hidden in the middle of the amazon jungle surrounded by tribes that still think it's 1,000,000 B.C.

 

[Grayfox]

Golden Staph.

A hard little germ to kill that can kill.

Black death also did a number.

 

[Danoff]

For those of you that think 7 billion people on this planet is too many - please give reasons and explain what the correct number of people is.

 

[kenny355]

Is it ironic that I'm listening to save the population by RHCP whilst reading this thread?