Fossil fuels.
So it's better to force people not to have children than to find technological solutions to the reduction of fossil fuels?
They metals and minerals we are force miming form places like Africa to make mobiles and computers.
Again, there are technological solutions. The only reason these things aren't recycled from old electronics now is because it's not economically viable to do so. So should we force people not to have children only because it's cheaper to do it that way?
Maybe if we had a different attitude, we wouldn't need to replace electronics so often. No one ever suggests that.
Food will become an issue in the not too distant future
Listen to me... there is no food shortage. You're being lied to. If a place has no food, it's either because someone is economically raping a country, or because food is being used as a weapon. The answer to this is not to reduce population. It's to stop the people who are causing these problems.
Us "educated" and "advanced" people in the western world think we have all the answers. We figured out how to do it all. We know for sure that there's just too many people on the planet for the amount of food and water we have. We really have this farming and nature thing down pat, right? lol Such arrogance! Not even close. Wanna see how wrong we got it? Watch this movie:
http://www.backtoedenfilm.com I challenge you to watch it to the end with an open mind, then tell me how much arable land there is on the planet.
You want to fix fossil fuel usage? How about we stop using all these chemical fertilizers. They're all petroleum based. What about all the plastic bags and bottles that are so bad for the environment? What was so bad about wood or metal boxes, glass bottles, or paper bags? I think they were all better anyway. If we stop our world-wide plastic orgy, that might reduce fossil fuels right? Plastic sucks anyway.
Did you know that my car gets more than 45 miles to the gallon? It kicks the Prius' butt. And it's not even available for sale in the US. Why? But let's not stop there. How about making all cars are electric cars? And don't tell me about how we're burning coal at the plant anyway. For the cost of a new car, I'm about to go off grid and install a wind and solar system at my farm. Why couldn't I charge my car with this?
My point to all this is that there are technological and sociological solutions to all these problems that don't require forced sterilizations, aborting babies, and killing people. But why aren't we pursuing those solutions? When it comes to blowing up people at wedding parties, we have the highest technology ever attained by humans. How about we apply that level of research dollars and effort into something that helps people instead of killing people? I guess there's no money in it.
Like I said way up higher, humans have an attitude problem.