Overpopulation

China is going to have a problem sooner or later because for years you could only have one child and most people wanted males. Many female infants were aborted or killed early in life. They have a severe shortage of females right now because of their policies.

Birth control/education/sterilization are better choices than abortion.

Whenever you bring up the subject of overpopulation you have to address those continents, countries and ethnicity of people most responsible.

That's where you usually get in trouble.

because overpopulation doesn't exist long term in a free market capitalist system absent a welfare state

People only reproduce beyond the carrying capacity (which is dependent on nature, innovation, and land utilization) when they're paid to do so or are otherwise subsidized by governments.

Anyone who thinks the world isn't overpopulated is too self centered for a frank discussion.

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because overpopulation doesn't exist long term in a free market capitalist system absent a welfare state People only reproduce beyond the carrying capacity (which is dependent on nature, innovation, and land utilization) when they're paid to do so or are otherwise subsidized by governments.

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Ya, "overpopulation" isn't a problem in of itself. If you think about it, it doesn't make sense as a problem. You can't have more people than resources to support it. People die on the fringes where resources are scarce.

Now, what is a problem, and is always a problem no matter what population you have, is resource destruction. A sudden loss of that would be a problem, but that is largely an independent issue and the amount of people who die from such a situation depends on how much and how sudden those resources are destroyed.

We don't have an overpopulation problem yet and even if we did, would you be in favor of murder to solve it? If so, how do you decide who gets murdered?