My post to answer questions in the ecoTrain community with this week's theme : QUESTION OF THE WEEK SEASON 10.4.Is The World Overpopulated And What Can We Do To Solve The Issue? To answer this question I will put some of my arguments as follows :
Preface
Every living thing that has the right to live in this world, without exception. Because when God created a life, God already had a plan with that living creature, all living things that God created were useful to others even though the living creature was only "a mosquito". a mosquito to humans may be useless but mosquitoes contribute to the life of other animals such as lizards. One of the characteristics of living things and is the essence of living things themselves is to reproduce, every living thing has the right to have offspring. Because reproduction is one of the essences of living things, this causes our earth to become denser with the increase in human population every day.
Problem
is breeding wrong? is it wrong to have offspring? Of course this is not wrong, what is wrong is when the essence of humans as living beings who have offspring has a negative impact on the lives of other humans. I mean WE CAN'T BE SELF-IMPORTANT, WE DON'T LIVE ALONE IN THIS WORLD. it means that when we ask for our right to have children, we must also think about the obligation to provide for our children well, if we are not able to provide a decent life for our two children, we should only have one child! This is for the good of ourselves and also our society, we must not be a burden to other people's lives for any reason, we must not force our desires, because not only we want children, other people also want them! we must also share opportunities with others and show we are "scientific and empathetic beings"
Some of the factors that cause rapid population growth are:
1.Unwritten customs and laws that one gender is more respected
the source of the problem lies in the order of society's life itself, in some ethnic groups consider boys to be better than girls and some others think girls are better than boys. This is one of the causes of the soaring human population on earth. there is a kind of unwritten law that causes an ethnic group to value a gender more and usually this relates to the distribution of inheritance and certain "privileges" that apply to certain ethnic groups.
2.The assumption that many children have a lot of sustenance
there are still many assumptions which state that having many children will bring a lot of sustenance for the family. Hello everyone, this assumption is "correct" in the era before humans knew technology, with many children being able to help parents to open new land by cutting down forests, helping parents to hunt and many more jobs that were helped by many children. But is this still effective for now? If you have a gold mine or an oil palm plantation and you need energy to cultivate it, you don't have to have many children, you can employ other people and share your sustenance with other humans who are not as lucky as you.
3.Better levels of health and nutrition.
of course with the progress of the times that continue to grow, humans also have the technology to utilize natural resources for the welfare of mankind, technology is also useful to support various human efforts in overcoming various diseases and increasing the nutritional value of a food. Of course this leads to an increase in the number of healthy humans and an increase in the population
Discussion
Question of the week : Is The World Overpopulated And What Can We Do To Solve The Issue?
Is The World Overpopulated? I assume that at the moment we are not overpopulated, why? because our vast earth has not been fully explored, we tend to look for a comfortable place to live and not try to conquer parts of the earth that we have not used for our habitation. This causes the accumulation of human population in one area and we only see this dense area as an example of human population density and do not look at other areas that are less populated due to limited infrastructure and food sources.
the existence of wars and also the spread of various diseases throughout the world, causing our population to decrease, REMEMBER THE EARTH HAS OWN WAY TO SELECT THE EXISTENCE OF LIVING THINGS, so that humans who are weak and unable to adapt by themselves will leave this world, won't one day we too will leave this world?
What Can We Do To Solve The Issue?
Before our earth is "completely overpopulated" then we can take some precautions, such as :
1.Birth control program
This program aims to create a prosperous family regardless of the gender of the child, boys and girls are equal, so that if a family already has a daughter or son, they can carry out a birth restriction program.
2.There is continuous education about the benefits of birth control
Counseling is very important to be done by the government to make the birth control program run effectively. the government is assisted by certain institutions like a religious leader
to convince all productive citizens regardless of ethnicity to implement a birth control program.
3.Infrastructure development
The government has begun to explore the part of its territory that has not been touched by "infrastructure" so that it becomes a suitable area for residents to live in.
4.Procurement of transmigration program
The government can carry out a transmigration program, namely moving some of the population who live in very dense areas to areas that are sparsely populated, of course the government must support the survival of the population by providing shelter and land that can be planted with various plants for the life of the population in the new area, so that there will be balance of population.
5.Increase spirituality
A good level of spirituality in a person will help him think better to benefit the lives of others, so that his view of the world's life is also better, he will be able to balance between "wants and needs" which causes his actions not only to use reason but also use feelings, for example he will not want to have many children if he knows that he is not able to provide a good life for his children.
6.Death penalty for high-level criminals
This sounds very cruel, but in order to protect other humans from predatory humans and help the earth select the "scum of society" for peace on earth, this is an "extreme" step that must be taken. What about human rights? If predators cannot appreciate the essence of life on earth, namely protecting the life of living things on earth, then why should we question human rights?
humans who can't protect life and make damage on earth then humans don't deserve to live with us.
that's my answer to this week's question, thank you for reading my writing.
Best Regards
@umirais