Overpopulation

What will happen when the population size becomes unmanageable? How will we manage food production, resources, or possible chaos? Thomas Malthus, in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, theorizes it’s human nature that causes problems because of sexual urges which leads to reproduction, thus causing people to produce more rapidly than food production. I think such problems is worth considering because such a condition is a possibility in the future. Furthermore, is population control necessary? Should there be a reduction in population through survival of the fittest or a terrifying and devastating purge of human life? Not for a second I would consider this a rational solution. I believe the most rational solution lies with the control of birthrates. By limiting birth rates the population size can be reduced to a manageable size without the loss of life or through devastating means. Nonetheless, how would a population submit to such a contradiction? This could be done through ethics, through sanctions or technology. With the use of ethics, the population should understand what is necessary so that overpopulation doesn’t become a problem. This means making the personal decision to limit or to use practices in which leads to zero reproduction. As seen in the past, such practices as that observed in Japan’s population stagnation, there most definitely is a way by personal choice. Another method is to use sanction to prevent a family from having too many children or no children at all. An example of this is high taxes on children being born and penalties for unexpected births. Whether ethics or sanction, such ideas are controversial to the traditional family morality. Lastly the use of technology can also be useful. An example using technology, is that we could find ways to adjust to overpopulation by developing methods to have overpopulation sustainable. Such as increasing production rate of resources or food, colonizing mars, or inventing alternate methods of sustainability by building underground, upwards, or extending beyond normal habital spaces such as living on the sea, under the sea, in the sky, or in space. In addition, I believe when overpopulation becomes an obvious problem, I think the good in people, those with a rational sense, will find a natural solution to how they will want to personally take measures to help with population control.