Population Control

Issue

   The world is overpopulated and the situation will become worse if no preventive measures are taken to correct the matter.

Overpopulation

   Since the quality of life is diminished by an excessive population, the United Nations should consider overpopulation as a human rights violation and require every nation to have a population control measure in place to manage their situation.

   The international community should consider several factors for determining when a nation becomes overpopulated such as: (1) population growth rate and variance, (2) economic stability, (3) quality of life, (4) agricultural production, (5) geographical location and expansion, (6) death rate, (7) environmental impact (waste/pollution), among others.

   Once a nation has been determined to be overpopulated (or is about to become overpopulated), the international community should impose various punitive measures until the offending nation corrects its situation.

Poverty

   When the international community takes a more effective stance on correcting overpopulation, the effort may have an impact on reducing global poverty as well. Especially when the collective effort is combined with ending world hunger (c.f. Hunger Relief) and for nations to adopt a skeleton government (c.f. Skeleton Government).

   Ending world hunger will provide immediate relief to those who are in need. Adopting a skeleton government will minimize taxes that promotes job growth allowing the homeless to support themselves. Enforcing a population control measure will ensure that the population won't exceed the agricultural and economic growth of the nation.

   By employing these three measures, the international community may improve the quality of life to the point that poverty may be eliminated worldwide.