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Let's say you had one hundred women and hundred men on a planet and asked them to go at it and procreate as much as possible. Assuming the planet provided food and medical supplies, all one hundred women could get pregnant once every year, if not slightly more often. If we asked the next generation to carry on the experiment with the same vigor, every daughter could get pregnant as soon as she began ovulating. A generation could be twelve years in duration, or perhaps even less.

If all but ten of the original one hundred men were sterilized, and we asked for the same results, those ten man could still impregnate all one hundred women. If we then sterilized 90% of the male population before it reached maturity, the remaining 10% could still continue the experiment and impregnate every girl.

But if all but 10% of women were sterilized in any given generation and none of the men were sterilized, every generation would see 90% less pregnancies.

Long story short: Women make babies.

That's important to remember, because the biggest, and perhaps the only, challenge facing humanity is overpopulation. Challenges emerging from peak oil, global warming, and war are compounded by human population to the degree that radical responses to these issues are practically nullified unless humans depopulate planet earth. Moreover, we can greatly mitigate most of the dangers these issues pose if we radically depopulate.

The best thing about depopulation is that humanity loses nothing. No culture, nation, or language is sacrificed. Humanity is not any safer or progressing any faster by having over six billion people instead of under three billion people living on the earth. In fact, the opposite is the case. We might have twice as good a chance of giving birth to a genius, but with overpopulation we don't have the resources to properly educate every child, so that potential is wasted. Not only that, it is a lot more efficient to have a billion fully educated humans, and no others whose existences are limited to surviving, than over a billion educated with 6 billion more that tax resources.

Sterilizing women is the key to depopulation, and that may mean it is the key to humanity's harmonious survival. Incentives to depopulate in the form of cash, education, jobs, tax relief, free tubal ligation, and easy adoption should be targeted at women. Casting women who sacrifice having their own children in a heroic light should be an essential of advertising world over. Sex education must provide free contraception and impress the importance of women waiting to have children and having only one child and no more than two if they are determined to have their own. Incentives can be scaled to decrease with one and two children, with tax social penalties for women that have three or more. Social services must reward depopulation and cease to support overpopulation.

Legitimate incentives will also increase women's social power, which will engender more balance and fairness in our societies.

This idea needs to get more popular and current, and fast. The more the necessity of depopulating the earth comes into focus, the sooner we can inject these ideas into the machineries of our political, economic, and even religious institutions. If we do not act in haste, it may even get to the point where we need to apply the kind of pressure that considers women who have children at an early age and/or three or more children to be selfish.

Without this concerted effort, as unpopular as it may be, we are left with a much grimmer and darker alternative. Either way, humans are going to depopulate this planet. We can do it consciously, peacefully, heroically, and proactively, or the planetary circumstances will do it for us instinctually, violently, frighteningly, and passively.

 

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Sankara Saranam is a writer, philosopher, lecturer, and tireless proponent of pranayama, a technique of intuitive mysticism. He traveled extensively in India and Israel researching and writing on spiritual issues. His first book, Yoga and Judaism (more...)
 

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A dictatorial and unfair solution by francine on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:23:53 AM
So do the math on your proposal... by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:50:03 AM
what traits are being selected against? by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:49:37 PM
Politics is an expression of biology by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:04:07 PM
What we have is a failure to communicate by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:19:58 PM
You have good thoughts to share, but... by Kathryn Smith on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:12:21 AM
Thus proving that women are irrational baby-machines. by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:20:32 PM
PS and this is a prime example of why.... by Kathryn Smith on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16:34 AM
You have it backwards by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:49:18 AM
I see your points, Sankara by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:04:15 PM
YOUR NEW SOLLUTION IS BETTER THAN YOUR ORIGINAL. by rhalfhill on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:47:47 AM
Rob, why isn't this a "Think twice" matter? by Kathryn Smith on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:20:22 AM
Stop reacting, take a breath, and read what I wrote again by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:27:42 AM
Women make babies? by P. Alexandria on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:05:11 PM
Women are doing a lot more than that by Sankara Saranam on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:13:32 PM
Exactly. by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:23:14 PM
CENSORSHIP by rhalfhill on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:10:17 AM
Not surprised this is written by a man... by P. Alexandria on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:38:51 AM
Incredible! by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:08:20 AM
I Don't see sexism by wagelaborer on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:48:55 PM
What other terms than biological can we look at this? by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:07:22 PM
The challenges you mention in your article... by John Sanchez Jr. on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:50:01 AM
We prefer the God solution by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:50:26 AM
Self-mystification by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:16:59 AM
The Living God by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:22:46 AM
I'm not a Straw Man by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:05:26 PM
We understand "God without religion", by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:01:58 PM
Indeed, by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:35:22 PM
Turn to God? by Ladyekait on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:50:07 PM
When we use the term, "Turn to God" by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:30:23 PM
Oh, right. THAT is going to work. by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:09:01 PM
The world is not hunky-dory by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:38:09 PM
Drugging our children by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:54:59 PM
Rather stunning by Jack Flanders on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:57:54 AM
Energy control by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:37:38 AM
Conscious vs. Unconscious by Jack Flanders on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:17:09 PM
Overpopulation isn't the cause how? by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:18:38 PM
5 billion people by Robert Singer on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:00:11 AM
Sounds as if a college freshman wrote it... by Armon Pacetti on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:07:02 AM
DE-POPULATION MATH by Butler2 on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:09:01 AM
Do the Commandments by Steve Osborn on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:16:42 AM
Do the Bop by William Whitten on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:21:01 AM
And? by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:52:23 AM
So mass starvation, war, etcetera isn't psychopathic rubbish by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:23:17 PM
Devaluation of Life by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:04:48 PM
My God by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:48:55 AM
provide incentives NOW; sterilization is unnecessary by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:20:06 AM
Let's do what Class Insecta does by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:10:05 AM
This would not work by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:58:44 AM
since Sankara missed the point of my alternative solution by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:02:05 AM
Class Insecta is parthenogenetic by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:41:22 AM
Even the math is wrong by Mikhail Lyubansky on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:24:00 AM
Excuse me by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:43:57 AM
You are correct by Gallaher on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:08:41 AM
Humans are not logical by Tom Fugate on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:34:05 AM
illogic in your thinking by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:29:11 AM
Yes, it is easier by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:15:13 PM
More illogic by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:02:51 PM
We were made in the Image of God by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:51:11 PM
over population correction by kanawah on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:37:42 AM
right: 1 viable male per 1000 by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:25:35 AM
Castrate?!! by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:07:57 PM
Woman take responsibility? by Gallaher on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:15:56 AM
We could solve this problem by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:54:04 PM
Typical by francine on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:01:39 PM
You bet I do! by Sankara Saranam on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:37:51 PM
hmm... I'm rethinking all this by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:09:22 PM
What about the uneducated, by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:58:38 PM
NOW you're seeing it, Rady! by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:10:14 PM
Not one by francine on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:04:11 PM
Voluntary Shmoluntary... by William Whitten on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:58:04 PM
Nazi Germany by wagelaborer on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:04:28 PM
Smiling and puking - You have a Youtube of that? by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:11:41 PM
Values by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:21:09 PM
Oh, please. Talk about ridiculous rubbish. by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:25:11 PM
Endangered Species Act by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:16:15 PM
Seriously folks by John Toradze on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:14:26 PM
How about limiting to one pregnancy? by Susan Jolly on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:30:53 PM
Negative Population Growth by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:56:15 PM
The Important Thing by UncleSim on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:41:50 PM
You see clearly UncleSim by Jenny Miner on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:03:58 PM
Yet Another Vent and Food-fight on Gender Differences? by Jai Daemion on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:02:44 PM
A tempest in a teapot by Kathryn Smith on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:19:20 PM
I have to chuckle by Stanimal on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:21:04 PM
Responsibilty and reverence for all of life by Jenny Miner on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:03:54 AM
Censorship by Kathryn Smith on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:21:46 PM
"Censorship response" by William Whitten on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:53:51 PM
One Mile Cube by Bill Cain on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:06:25 PM
10 m^2 per human; 6.6 bn humans; 148,940,000 km^2 land by Rady Ananda on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:51:39 AM
male birth control by shirley reese on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:10:32 PM
Practice What You Preach? by Martha Rose Crow on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:16:13 PM
Whoa, excellent comments! by Jill Herendeen on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:27:50 PM
You got me by Sankara Saranam on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:33:10 PM
"Alien" Religions by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:46:15 PM
There's Me by Bia Winter on Saturday, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:20:15 PM
ballistic belles by Rady Ananda on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:03:11 AM
Your link left out... by Jill Herendeen on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:22:01 PM
The Count of Beans by Bucky the Commoner on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:09:43 PM

 

 

 

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