Why do you think world hunger and overpopulation are linked ?

@SW-User Dead right. Enough food to go round. Just that our lot (US/Euro) scoff the lot. Was skipping round online news last month - story about starving ppl in Yemen, then an eating contest in Texas (some fat twat had broken his own record). Mind you, Yemen can f.off because we need to sell the Saudis the arms to bomb Yemen don't we. Oil doesn't grow on trees.

@Rosejilly people want to ignore international trades. Bribery of huge wealth from powerful countries to the LEADERS of poorer countries so that they can suck the biggest economic industry of that country dry for free or cheap prices then use them to better advanced systems (having not paid a fair price). It is obviously also the fault of the corrupted leaders, but they are suckered by the ill intent of investors who KNOW the worth of the resources and just take advantage of their fellow human's desperacy and ignorance :/

Yet people are not able to see this OBVIOUS reality? Man are we blind in this day and age

@BlueVeins yep......also when their economic situation improves the number of children drops

@gol979 It's a shame that effect lags so damn far behind, though.

@BlueVeins and a shame (as displayed below) that this situation is wrapped up as "breeding like rabbits and they're too stupid to use protection". That obviously isn't the case but it suits horrid stereotypes

@Dewms the kids grow up and then have more kids. It isn't the parents' fault, either >_>

Observe international relations and resource value in country-to-country trades and how they translate into nominal worth from place to place according. The SAME item just moved somewhere then resold will suddenly be worth more

@Dewms women in poverty don't have proper access to birth control and womens health.

The government is too busy taking away those opportunities because those women should have those babies..not use birth control to prevent them and certainly not abortion.

Then after those babies are born the government now wants to limit the care they give to them eventhough they forced the women to have them by not providing options.

@SW-User >.>
our international trade translates into how the prices of the goods work? is that what youre saying?

@JaggedLittlePill plus they're too poor to even feed their family of 5, how else are they gonna buy contraception o.O in here, the government doesn't even provide care for the women and babies in poverty

@Rosejilly No...I am in no way a fascist😄

@bijouxbroussard Depends who we send up. Tempting to drop a few off half way.

@Straylight Unfortunately, the people with the funds for space travel seem to be the same folks involved with polluting this planet. I’m just not optimistic.

@monimathu wrong

@GlassDog I think values shift.

@revenant Pretty sure that's the case. I remember the willingness to accept death (another factor for large family sizes) in LDCs with strong religious beliefs.

@GlassDog that and what Rhodesian said. Western families place more importance on their children, their education, welfare, future etc too as they become wealthier.

@tenente Lol..I am glad I could assist!

@gol979 Yes....in some ways we have already started in that direction. We still have many opposed to such things. Mainly I speak of the Non-GMO movement who believe those advancements are killing us all with chemikillz.

@JaggedLittlePill there's vertical farming too. And if the majority went vegan......would alleviate much of this problem

@tenente Good Point.

@Rhodesianman exactly

@Rhodesianman This one of the reasons why I feel education is important. People need the opportunity to progress their minds past the limitations of culture and religion which are closely linked and keeping many people's minds in the dark ages.

@monimathu I think there might be some truth in the overpopulation/hunger thing, but for the most part I think a lot of it is a ruse to draw attention away from the actual political aspect of it...and as you see, not many people have thought about that or brought it up (so it works).

@MartinTheFirst but still think that only a small percentage can have a good income, even with that hideous fact?

@gol979 Yes, I don't believe in delusions even if I want to.

@MartinTheFirst I feel for you dude that you cannot even imagine a world where equality (or even more equality) is achievable. You have swallowed every piece of spin

@SW-User wrong

We'll come back to this in 5 years then?

If you want to know why the health service, education, roads, social care, welfare, etc etc are all screwed, the answer is debt. The political determination to reduce deficit and national debt whilst making less and less tax revenue.

Not to mention off books debt like national pension commitments.

Trust me, debt is, as you say, a bit of a woolly concept, but all that money belongs to someone somewhere and if you pull the plug on the lending it all comes crashing down.

You can't stop paying for it without losing access to more. But it's getting so we spend so much servicing the debt we can't provide what's needed.

It WILL crash. You young guys I'm afraid will have a tough decade at a very critical time of your lives.

Good luck. It's going to be a very bumpy ride.

@MartinTheFirst The difference is that the 7 billion would have to share the same limited resources. They can't make food out of nothing!

@SW-User The resources are limited but they are by no means scarce in relation to how many we are. The core of the problem is poor management.

@bijouxbroussard more people, more despotic dictators starving their enemies to death

@tenente Yes. And sometimes deciding their own people are the “enemy”. 😞

@MarmeeMarch
This is funny. Seems like a common thing with a lot of users here too 🤔