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Birth control = population control.
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1310363" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I don't think we have a population problem as a whole... we have a population <em>concentration</em> problem.. Too many people cramped in to too small places.</p><p></p><p>I was actually thinking about this the other day.. As a species, we're really setting ourselves up for extinction... It's all fine and dandy that we're finding cures to a lot of diseases, we're able to do amazing surgeries to fix problems, genetic or otherwise, but today everyone's got allergies to *everything*, and they're becoming more common, not less...Slowly slowly we're diluting our 'good' gene pool with all sorts of unwanted genes that cause problems... and the stupid gene is right at the top of the list!</p><p></p><p>I don't have the magic solution to this, but I can just think of what's over the horizon... A failure in our medical system (perhaps brought on by economic problems), and we'll have a massive casualties... from all the people with pacemakers, dialysis, organ anti-rejection drugs, etc.</p><p></p><p>Many species survive not because of a concentrated, uniform gene pool, but because of a diverse one.. the difference between those species and us, is that the 'unsuccessful' matings are dead ends.. I don't like the idea of eugenics, and that is just one reason.. Look at the popular breeds, and go back 10 generations... with the advent of AI and ET, there's some sire out there that are incredibly influential in the breed.. It might be good from a production standpoint, but is it good from a long term evolutionary one? Same goes for human eugenics.. I'm sure there's going to be some committee </p><p>that picks out a few dams and sires, and will think that basing the future of humanity on their genes is doing us a favor.. because every guy needs to be 6'2" and 220lbs.</p><p></p><p>Cottagefarm, you kinda beat me in typing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1310363, member: 9096"] I don't think we have a population problem as a whole... we have a population [i]concentration[/i] problem.. Too many people cramped in to too small places. I was actually thinking about this the other day.. As a species, we're really setting ourselves up for extinction... It's all fine and dandy that we're finding cures to a lot of diseases, we're able to do amazing surgeries to fix problems, genetic or otherwise, but today everyone's got allergies to *everything*, and they're becoming more common, not less...Slowly slowly we're diluting our 'good' gene pool with all sorts of unwanted genes that cause problems... and the stupid gene is right at the top of the list! I don't have the magic solution to this, but I can just think of what's over the horizon... A failure in our medical system (perhaps brought on by economic problems), and we'll have a massive casualties... from all the people with pacemakers, dialysis, organ anti-rejection drugs, etc. Many species survive not because of a concentrated, uniform gene pool, but because of a diverse one.. the difference between those species and us, is that the 'unsuccessful' matings are dead ends.. I don't like the idea of eugenics, and that is just one reason.. Look at the popular breeds, and go back 10 generations... with the advent of AI and ET, there's some sire out there that are incredibly influential in the breed.. It might be good from a production standpoint, but is it good from a long term evolutionary one? Same goes for human eugenics.. I'm sure there's going to be some committee that picks out a few dams and sires, and will think that basing the future of humanity on their genes is doing us a favor.. because every guy needs to be 6'2" and 220lbs. Cottagefarm, you kinda beat me in typing [/QUOTE]
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