zero growth
i was thinking the other day about what it would take to achieve zero population growth worldwide. lessee... 6 billion people growing at 1.5% per year. give or take. works out to some 300,000 more people per day. shit. that's a big number. imagine trying to prevent 300,000 pregnancies every day. i think that works out to getting some 1-2 million couplers to use condoms. big task. on the other hand, we could let nature up the death rate. the sri lankan tsunami killed some quarter million people. imagine a disaster like that every single day. that's with the population of the world today. some folks estimate nature won't start kicking people's buckets until we double or quadruple our population. an extra million deaths a day.