How to control population growth?

What is population control?

Population control is any methodology used to control the type, location and number of people that inhabit the earth. Public debate is strictly limited however to non-coercive means in achieving any one of these goals, especially with regards to population reduction. An important example of this would be allowing people the free choice on procreative matters. By using various methodologies both economic and administrative and educational to dissuade people from having more children than needed, a stable population base can be created. It should be noted here that the prevailing viewpoint of the world’s decision makers is that Population control and environmental devastation are linked and the former contributes heavily to the latter. This view is foundational to understand the policies that are formulated to combat, what is viewed by policy makers as a runaway population explosion. Indeed, when the Nation Intelligence Council (NIC) held their Global Trends Conference they identified seven key drivers that would shape the globe through the year 2015. The first was demographics; the second was natural resources and environment.[i]  These trends are of the utmost importance to understand if we are to understand the motives and policies that are driving the population control agenda. Related terms and policy paradigms and nomenclature are 'Sustainable Development', 'Agenda 21', ‘Rio Conference’ ‘Biodiversity Treaty’, ‘Bioshpere Reserves’, ‘World Heritage Treaty’, ‘Ecosystem Management’, ‘Desertification Treaty’, Ecosystem Management etc. The idea that there are too many people inhabiting the earth is one that is ingrained in the world’s leaders and one that, in their view, requires a solution.

What kinds of solutions?

The only socially and psychologically acceptable solution available to policy makers when discussing reducing the world’s population is education. While other methods are debated they are rarely employed or even discussed with any real publicity. These include various methods of taxation and other forms of financial disincentives. These methods are important to note because barring success of the educational solution track, the financial/administrative[ii] disincentives administrative will probably become more likely as a method of reducing populations. However, this method is only really available where there is some degree of wealth and a fairly well developed governmental institutions capable of enforcing such a regimen. These are the regions that are the primary target of the so called population control agenda; remote, poor, economically underdeveloped regions of the world. Thus, if global policy makers are to have any success in their war on population (people), other methods must be employed.