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No and yes. It really depends on what you mean by overpopulation. From the perspective of space by itself, the answer is no. There is still a ton of undeveloped land all over the world that could be used to house people, we produce enough food (at least calorie-wise) to feed everybody- globally, famine will only happen when distribution lines get fucked up.

Natural resource-wise, you could potentially make the case that the world is overpopulated, but generally speaking production will increase with consumption- generally. In terms of skilled labor positions, I would say that there exists a deficits. There are an enormous number of people who simply have no place in the modern economy. They lack the skills and training to do much of anything. Moreover, overpopulation is increasingly obvious in a world that is becoming more and more urban. Living in this kind of proximity to so many people is a departure from how humans normally interact with the world around them.

>>322194

>implying jews aren't shapeshifting aliens

>implying mercury isn't one of their bases

>implying jews don't control space travel

>>322159

Actually, we tried it for a while. But, it didn't work out. Around 1975, we adopted something called a "Two Child Policy". Any man having two children or more, was told to get sterilized. We were a bigger shithole back then, we didn't even have enough doctors and clinics to pull off this. Many under-qualified doctors lied on their CVs to get the money. Surgeries were performed in tents where they lacked clinics. Basically, a lot of people of died. There was a lot of criticism of the government. It was called undemocratic, even dictatorial.

No politician would dare talk of an "One/Two Child Policy" today, because of that. Following those events, the government switched to indirect approaches. Family planning was introduced in schools. (Western-style sex education is still opposed by the Hindu right-wing states.) Adult education programs were started. Birth controls were heavily subsidized. Research into cheaper contraceptives were undertaken. Today, we not only produce some of the world's cheapest contraceptive and even export them to other nations who need them. You may have heard of the male contraceptive called Vasagel, undergoing trials. Now in the future, no women will be able snare a man by getting "accidently" pregnant.

Today not many people want to have more than two kids. Some try to have at least one son, so they try again and again only to get a bunch of girls. Some abort female fetuses and try again. This method has resulted in skewed gender ratios, especially in states like Punjab and Haryana. The government has introduced several affirmative action policies to increase the preference and acceptance of girl babies. At least on policy papers, India is an awesome place to be a girl. Especially, if you are a tribal girl.

Basically, people use various birth controls to space their children. You can buy them for cheap at any drugstore or for free at government clinics. After two children, people usually get sterilized. It is free at government clinics. It is also covered by most insurances if you opt for a private clinic. However, there have been reports of doctors at government clinics giving false diagnoses to women, like ovarian cysts, so that they would opt for more complicated procedures. The doctors get paid more that way, since it is all subsidized. (Some tribal groups and religious groups have rejected birth controls.)

This approach has worked well both for India and Bangladesh. India's current fertility rate is 2.47. It is slightly below the world average of 2.48. It will continue to fall. By 2030, we will be at replacement rate. However, the population will seemingly continue to grow because our life expectancy is increasing rapidly. After 2050, the population will begin contracting.

We are self-sufficient in terms of food. The slow population growth will not affect it, because we were farming in traditional methods until the 1970s. The introduction of newer methods continues to increase our food supplies. We are now even exporting food. We are still largely dependent on monsoons outside the major river basins. We plan to change by building more dams, watersheds and the ambitious river interconnection project.

By the way, is there any plans to impose birth controls on the migrants? Because I just noticed their home nations have very high fertility rates compared to Germany. With first-world level health care, free education and other freebies, they may feel encouraged to have even more children. At this rate, they will out-breed you guys.

Feel free to ask more questions.

>>322293

Fooling an educated citizenry to have more babies is near impossible. Although I am sure, German and Japanese researchers may have proposed several options that don't involve migrants.

Poor nations have more children partly because that child mortality is high. The extra children serve as insurance. But, when the child mortality is reduced by better healthcare, it contributes to population growth. Africa always that high fertility rate, but no one notices because a lot of those babies die. However with aid and improving healthcare, they will see a boom in population. A lot of them also don't know about birth-control or reject it due to religion. In the last century, South and East Asia contributed the most to the world population. In this century, it will be sub-Saharan Africa.

Furthermore, a lot of poor people think that children can serve as extra sources of income, so this contributes to child labor or prostitution. Children, especially male, are treated as old-age pension. Those people don't think about the future, like the cost of child-rearing and education, unlike educated people. They think that tomorrow will take care of itself and focus on surviving today.

When people wise up to what getting married and raising kids involves, and that you can't make them do labor, they stop having children or even getting married. Rising standards and cost of living also contribute to it.

>>322350

>>322346

Actually, we probably won't be able to provide first-world healthcare to rural, poor urban and tribal population in anytime is the next 30 years. Currently, we are focusing on reducing the child mortality rate and increasing their life expectancy.

Major diseases affecting children are being brought under control using vaccines. Workers trek into remote villages with iceboxes to ensure everyone is vaccinated. We now focusing on rota virus, intestinal worms, hepatitis B etc. under a multi-vaccine program and with generics. Midwives from rural and tribal region are being given formal training to reduce child mortality. Pregnant and nursing mothers can claim handouts to ensure better nutrition. There is a project to connect major villages to the nearest hospital by road. Some states are experimenting with tele-medicine. Public-sector schools offer a free balanced lunch to all children. So, nutrition-deficiency related diseases are being reduced. The average height of Indians has grown by a 0.5-2 inches during the past two decade according to studies.

I was actually aware of the difference between cash crop and food crops. We are considered self-sufficient in food grains, some vegetables, pulses and diary. Other indicators like grain yield-per-hectares have shown great improvement since the 1970s when the reforms were introduced. However, China's yield-per-hectare is almost twice. Thus, proving more improvement is achievable.

We used to import food grains from US back in the 70s. Nowadays, we import them only when the monsoon fails. For example last year we imported lots of pulses, because the monsoon failed and pulses are the major source of protein in our diets. Some fruits which don't grow in tropical climates are imported. We import processed food products from Australia, because our food processing industry is lagging. Some spices are imported from Sri Lanka and Indonesia. We import nuts from Benin.

Major cash crops for us are cotton, sugarcane, buffalo, oilseeds etc. Some strains of wheat and rice are grown mostly for export. We also export spices, of course. You may have heard of Darjeeling tea and Malabar coffee.

Most of the starvation occurs in India, because of supply and demand mismatch. Our food distribution and storage system in very inefficient. The government is creating buffer stocks and improving the freight network. A food security bill has been introduced which will provide poor people with some basic groceries at subsidized rates.

>>322379

The farming labor sector in India is divided into landed farmers (or cultivators) and agricultural laborers. Landed farmers own their farms. Farmers with small farms tend to their own fields. Farmers with larger farms hire the above mentioned agricultural laborers. They are 144 millions of them. (Note: Deck hands on fishing boats and net-repairers are also included in it.)

The agricultural laborer is probably the one of worst economic classes in India. They are paid too little. They suffer from seasonal unemployment. During droughts and off-season, they don't get paid. The subsidies targeted at farmers don't benefit them much. Their work is hazardous and toiling.

They spray pesticides from hand-cranked pumps, without any protective apparatus. Most of the cotton in India is still picked by hands. Because it is simply cheaper that way than buying machines. Cotton-pickers suffer from chronic respiratory diseases. However, many are leaving and moving to cities to work as construction workers. Recently, some cheap cotton-picking machines have been pushed in the market.

The government has a rural employment guarantee scheme to protect them from seasonal unemployment. There are also skill development programs so that they or their kids can find employment in the manufacturing or infrastructure sector. Hopefully, with increasing labor costs, alternate employment opportunities and mechanization, this economic class will disappear.

Niggers should be killed

>>322452

I studied agricultural science briefly and that first picture makes me sick looking at it. They should at least provide them respirators and clothing that covers exposed skin.

>>322476

We are not doing so well. The success of our family planning policy, agriculture reforms and tax reforms, will make or break everything.

Cold storages are only a small part of the reforms. Another major part is the logistic industry. The produce passes through 3-12 middlemen to go from the farmer to the consumer. Most of the middlemen don't add anything of value, they don't even own cold storages, and only some own trucks, but they take the largest cuts. We do have some professional logistics firms or departmental shop chains, and they don't enter the food transport business because of the cartels of middlemen and archaic laws. The entire system technically can be replaced by a farmers' cooperative or a retail firm like Walmart.

Middlemen undercharge the farmers and overcharge the consumers. During the times of scarcity, they hoard the stocks and release them only when peak price is reached. They don't care if a few thousands die in meantime. They exist partly because of the complex tax system of India. Each state has its own tax system and only the middle men know how to navigate them all. The barely-literate truck driver certainly can't figure out the forms and stamps. The proposed Good and Services Tax Act, will impose a simple unified tax regime. This will also boost small businesses who rely on middle-men and don't have an army of tax accounts like big firms. But some states have opposed it, because they feel that they will lose revenue.

Recently, e-commerce firms have been rising in India. They mostly sell gadgets like phones and TVs, and some premium clothing. Some have risked venturing into online grocery stores. They have decided to deal with pre-existing courier and logistic firms, instead of middle men. Thus, the price of these products are way lower than the market prices. A lot of middle-class people for the first time are waking up to the evil and invisible middle-men. But, retail stores are also feeling the kick as the consumers vote with their wallets. The retailers and the middle-men have formed lobbies to halt all these reforms, tax e-commerce and logistic firms heavily. Some states have fallen to them and imposed additional taxes on e-commerce goods.

Most of the food is transported by road. It is slow. We don't have emergency lanes and accidents many cause delays for hours. Trains are mostly focused on transporting people. Food is rarely transported by trains as it is even more slow and expensive. Some political parties think that blocking highways and rails is an acceptable form of protest. Such a protest recently strained our relationship with Nepal. The government is improving the road and rail systems to make them freight friendly. Only recently, someone in the government figured out that you can run barges on rivers. Currently, they are mapping and surveying navigable waterways.

>>322849

>fucking a gorilla

>>322154

Not if we kill whity to give us the extra space

>>322854

me on the left

t. me