Thread: China's Population Control

Quote: Originally Posted by Blueneck Is that true? Probably. I'm not sure how recent that would be; but in the extremely rural areas; government doesn't have much strength and people know it, so they don't follow it. I would hope that it doesn't still continue, but unfortunately it probably does somewhere.

Quote: Originally Posted by cmw00 At some point I feel like we are going to run out of space and/or resources, at that point it'll be interesting to see what people think about population control. A lot of ills come down to "too many people not enough planet"

I voted neither. I don't like that things have gotten to the point, but I cannot blame the country for being proactive about it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Xilaisalt There was a stickied post about this topic on another forum I check out, and was personally wondering what the west thought about it. Obviously it's going to get a lot of "it's oppressive"; but I wouldn't imagine it'd be 100-0. PROS: Makes it easier to solve food problems (20% population but 7% arable land) Controls economic problems (unemployment, decreasing wages,...

At some point I feel like we are going to run out of space and/or resources, at that point it'll be interesting to see what people think about population control.

Its better than the alternative. Although I believe many in the west really don't fully understand how the one child policy works.

Heck yeah India! Go India!!