[burn0gas]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/15/un.hunger/index.html$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'f')or the first time in history, more than 1 billion face starvation worldwide.

[kpeavey]

I'm an internet user and while I can easily afford many dollars per week, I would not support such an initiative. It would be an effort to artificially support surplus carrying capacity and would only cause more suffering later when the population has grown and support can no longer be artificially sustained.

[Ludi]

I donate to Population Connection, which helps people plan and reduce their reproduction. link

Fewer people = less starvation.

You can't win The Food Race. link

[deMolay]

Maqybe the UN should start by using the Tsunami Scam money that they still haven't spent. Then after that they could fire 10,000 UN employees and use that money.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'F')ewer people = less starvation. You can't win The Food Race.

[timmac]

Sounds like another UN scam to me, I will bet less than 50 cents on the dollar will even go towards food for the hungry, why don't the toothless lions [UN] do more to stop this problem in the African nation by assassinating the evil leaders over there, plowing the fields, putting in wells, etc, etc, instead of stealing the profits and pretending they care..

[Ayame]

It would be foolhardy to do this. They should set up the tubes tied/vasectomy for food program applying if the person has had over one kid.

[mos6507]

I thought, as in the peak oil moderates thread, a die off wasn't going to happen? Or it just wasn't going to hit the 1st world? Or it wasn't going to be due to peak oil per se? A billion people dying sounds like a die off to me.

[hillsidedigger]

I think to some extent this is just sensational fear-mongering to drain wealth off the gullible and sympathetic and, no, most such donations or grants would not go for the intended purpose.

I have said for awhile now that the world will not reach 9 billion people, not even 8 billion.

I am beginning to wonder about 7 billion.

How much could be done for a starving person with only one dollar per week?

[rangerone314]

How about instead of a billion a week, how about we double that to 2 billion a week ($104 billion a year) and give 104,000,000 poor women each year $1,000 cash after getting their tubes tied?

Just imagine how many births would be stopped and how much poverty would be allieviated.

[mos6507]

Can someone point me towards any measure, ANYTHING in which malthusian policy positions received a receptive reaction from the mainstream rather than being met with accusations of misanthropy? It's almost a complete waste of time to preach about this stuff because it is the 3rd rail of politics. Even in the UK where population concerns are at least getting into the press, the comments pages are off the richter scale with moral indignation blowback. It's always crucify the messenger with population.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', ' ') A billion people dying sounds like a die off to me.

[mos6507]

Yep. If we lose a billion but gain a billion in births then it's not technically a die-off, which says more about the depth of suffering required to actually bring the population into balance with the ecosystem in the end, and the degree to which births only make matters worse.

[turner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'H')ow about instead of a billion a week, how about we double that to 2 billion a week ($104 billion a year) and give 104,000,000 poor women each year $1,000 cash after getting their tubes tied?
Just imagine how many births would be stopped and how much poverty would be allieviated.

[erl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m an internet user and while I can easily afford many dollars per week, I would not support such an initiative. It would be an effort to artificially support surplus carrying capacity and would only cause more suffering later when the population has grown and support can no longer be artificially sustained.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('erl', 'W')ell, I guess we can all just close our eyes and turn off the tv. That way we don't have to watch these people starve.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here is an implied responsibility of the 1st world to the 3rd world, as if they are and should forever be the world's welfare children. Surely some compassion is in order, but I'm not sure the blame-mongering is entirely fair.

[frankthetank]

Money to buy some tools to farm/irrigate would go a lot further... You can grow crops almost anywhere with the right equipment and access to water.

The whole planet needs to address population. Its not just 3rd worlders who are to blame. What about the Octomom and her litter of little welfare cases that will consume as many resources as 100 African children? 1000? ...

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', 'T')he only reason there's a pop explosion is BECAUSE of interaction of the First World with the Third.

[HeckuvaJob]

The easiest way to decrease the birthrate? educate women

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he overwhelming majority of those living in poverty today are the children of people who lived in poverty. In effect, poverty is largely inherited. The key to breaking out of the culture of poverty is education—particularly of girls. As female educational levels rise, fertility falls. Economist Gene Sperling concluded in a study of 72 countries that “the expansion of female secondary education may be the single best lever for achieving substantial reductions in fertility.”15