Mass cull of human race

[KiffinKiller]

rapture. duh

 

[OrangeWilly]

I have a feeling that this rock we're living on will provide some form of population control of it's own sometime in the future.

Absolutely. Look at the Earths brief history. She definitely has a reset button.

 

[hndog609]

As a planet we are nowhere close to any need for some sort of "population triage" IMO.

 

[lawgator1]

Nature adjusts the population on it's own. If there are too many of us, it is inevitable that "culling" will occur. No program is necessary.

 

[lumberjack4]

That big asteroid would have successfully culled the planet if not for the meddling US government, in its infinite wisdom, sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up there to destroy it.

 

[YorkVol]

Steven Hawking would argue that you would have a hard time selecting who to cull...

 

[PKT_VOL]

Nature adjusts the population on it's own. If there are too many of us, it is inevitable that "culling" will occur. No program is necessary.

I think the OP's intent was from a political and economic stand point. Not necessarily a (nature) survival standpoint.

 

[gsvol]

That being said, one conspiracy theory I have almost accepted is that the DDT bans were intended to control the population of the third world.

They knew the claims about the harmful effects of DDT were false when they made the ban, that much is fact.

We already produce well more than enough food to feed everyone on earth, however unprecedented proportions go to feeding monoculture livestock.

There is no problem with abundance, but rather how it is distributed

I havn't heard the 'monoculture livestock' term used before, could you clarify how you define that term?

Lots of interesting viewpoints here and interesting alternatives. No one has posted what they think are the negatives of culling humans.

Some would think it morally wrong.

Obama's science czar wrote a book back in the '70s advocating for such a policy.

Still doesn't work because it depends on the few choosing for the many. The few cannot possibly make a completely objective decision and regardless, they should never be given the power.

In the situation you describe above, it still should by the individual's choice to view their demise as improving the quality of life for others. Any other option is tyranny.

Too much power in too few hands always seems to go badly wrong.