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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:

external documents (*):

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

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

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Time of meetings

Part 1 Part 2 City/Country
Friday, 07:00 PM Saturday, 11:00 AM Honolulu/HI-US
Friday, 10:00 PM Saturday, 02:00 PM Vancouver/CA; Los_Angeles/US
Friday, 11:00 PM Saturday, 03:00 PM Calgary/CA; Salt_Lake_City/US
Saturday, midnight Saturday, 04:00 PM Winnipeg/CA; Chicago/US; Mexico/MX; Bogota/CO; Lima/PE
Saturday, 01:00 AM Saturday, 05:00 PM Toronto/CA; New_York/US, Miami/US; Santiago/CL; Caracas/VE
Saturday, 02:00 AM Saturday, 06:00 PM Sao_Paulo/BR; Buenos_Aires/AR
Saturday, 06:00 AM Saturday, 10:00 PM London/UK, Lisbon/PT
Saturday, 07:00 MF Saturday, 23:00 MF Stockholm/SE, Paris/FR, Berlin/GE, Zurich/CH, Rome/IT, Madrid/ES, Warsaw/PL
Saturday, 08:00 MF Sunday, 00:00 MF Helsinki/FI, Riga/LV, Kiev/UA; Jerusalem/IL; Istanbul/TR
Saturday, 09:00 MF Sunday, 01:00 MF Moscow/RU
Saturday, 10:00 AM Sunday, 02:00 AM Karachi/PK
Saturday, 10:30 AM Sunday, 02:30 AM Dehli/IN
Saturday, noon Sunday, 04:00 AM Novosibirsk/RU; Jakarta/ID; Bangkok/TH
Saturday, 01:00 PM Sunday, 05:00 AM Beijing/CN; Manila/PH; Perth/AU
Saturday, 02:00 PM Sunday, 06:00 AM Tokyo/JP; Seoul/KR
Saturday, 03:00 PM Sunday, 07:00 AM Sydney/AU
Saturday, 05:00 PM Sunday, 09:00 AM Auckland/NZ



How to participate

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