Wow, all those human deaths and it doesn't make a dent in the human overpopulation. How do we cull 5 billion people to make the world better, Tom?
I've already written a bunch on population control in another thread.
The problem isn't how we cull 5 BILLION people.
The problem is
can we?
We value life. We take safeguards to protect us from natural culling events.
The way I see it, the only way to remove 5 BILLION people from this planet is to properly fund space programs, space and interplanetary colonization efforts. If more of us were working on an exodus strategy, we would overcome its barriers. But, we refuse to spend our money on it.
NASA is poorly funded. It should be one of the biggest community efforts, highly funded.
We will wait till the problem gets so huge we are threatened as a species before we concentrate on a living solution. Then it will be too late because we were not properly prepared. It takes time to build colony ships that could house BILLIONS of people. It takes dedication, research and innovation to overcome those obstacles. Its been 50 some odd years since we stepped on another celestial body. We are going backwards. We should already have a habitat on the Moon and explorers on Mars. We should already have habitat space stations in high orbit and between Earth and Mars. We should already have research stations at the Jovian and Saturnine systems. We don't because we are greedy and small minded. Its gunna bite us in the a** and it will be our fault.