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2010-W22(*) Topic: "Overpopulation"

• Problems

 
 Shortage of vital resources: living place, healthy food, drinking water, fresh air
 
 Lack or low quality of social services: health care, education, protection  
 
 Social problems in huge agglomerations: Migration, Discrimination, Exploitation, Criminality, Addictions
 
 Economic problems: poverty, unemployment
  

• Future situation

 
 Further growing problems
 
 Limits of overpopulation

• Solutions

  
 Birth control
  
 Proper education
  
 Decent living conditions
  
 Moral eugenics
    

• Undesirable depopulation

  
 Wars 
  
 Diseases
  
 Natural disasters

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Links

related FIGU documents:

• http://us.figu.org/portal/SocialIssues/ACrusadeAgainstOverpopulation/tabid/102/Default.aspx
• http://us.figu.org/portal/SocialIssues/BirthRateCheck/tabid/104/Default.aspx

• http://ca.figu.org/FIGU_Articles.html
• http://ca.figu.org/Related_Articles.html

• http://futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Arahat_Athersata_Overpopulation

• http://forum.figu.org/us/messages/14/79.html?1275260311

• http://www.thecircleforhumanity.net/

external documents (*):

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/bartlett_presentations.html

!!! different opinion:
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/

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