I'm personally child free (ffs please don't YOU ppl give me crap for that too) but saw how society is stacked to expect kids; you can have 20 kids and MAYBE get a few odd looks but decided you don't want ANY and you get a lot of negativity.

I don't think we should LIMIT how many kids a family can have, but maybe work to further educate younger couples just how much work a child is and increase education about contraceptives so there's fewer accidental pregnancies.

It's an interesting conundrum. You see all these books and movies and horror stories in China about how limiting offspring is an immoral and destructive thing, yet no one offers an actual solution to the fact that there are just too many humans. We also have people refusing to allow people to make their own reproductive choices, limiting abortions and birth control and not allowing people hysterectomies or tubal ligation without express medical necessity (even if it IS a medical necessity it's still hard as fuck to find a doctor willing to perform these procedures on a woman under 30 with no kids.)

And if you voice your opinion on mandatory sterilization, suddenly you're Hitler...

I had ‘the snip’ 3 years ago. Best thing I’ve done in my life. Huge weight off my shoulders. Child free for life. So there’s my bit done. ?

You are expecting way too much from humans.

Just continue with the same gun laws we have now. How about we give everyone a free gun. That should do it.

I'm thinking Mama Nature is handling it. Observe closely the results of climate change ... it may not be a problem too much longer.

Death penalty for parking violations

Encourage abortions... (too far?)

Exploding population is self-correcting. It's Biology 101.

A good plague would help, especially for the anti-vaccers!

War, starvation, and disease are nature's way of controlling the population.

It's time to end tax breaks and government entitlements for breeding humans.

We need population control and requiring licenses to breed humans.
The earth is dying. Humans have done a bang-up job of breeding themselves into a corner.

you didn't watch the brochure?

I'd hate to say this, but some form of Eugenics or laws might be the answer. The moral questions come into effect then.

Humans are rapidly headed toward destruction of habitat of all creatures. Mass famine will ensue. I believe it is too late , due to climate change. Situation hopeless.

Soylent Green.

Solves world hunger and overpopulation in one go.

Don't worry.....earth and space have a way of sorting these things out.
. I also don't think population is an issue - we have the means of feeding and housing all peoples. Other people prevent it from happening for short sighted financial gain.

Wow!
Some of y'alls answers!...damn!
How about teaching your kids to keep it in their pants & close their legs...
I'm 48 & NONE of my kids want kids. It's not rocket science...geez!
There's no need for genocide!
But then again, with some of these answers, I hate to admit, I see a need?

We need to create a race of terminator robots to reduce the population, obviously. Maybe set off a few nuclear weapons, I dunno. Feed people protein bars made out of people when all the plants die out.

The basic encouragements to overpopulation are religious, the "Be fruitful and mulitiply" crud that infests every religion. Here in the U.S., the religious exhortion to breed has been co-opted by retail and financial establishments who realize that people with children spend money-- A LOT more money than child-free people. Thus, every commercial you see on TV has children in it. Children, big cars, big yards, multiple computers/smart phones. The "consumer dream" is being spewed at us 24-7. Those who either cannot afford to conform to this model-- or who choose not to-- are subtly made to feel abnormal.

I'm afraid there is probably going to be a bomb dropping exercise at some stage that will take care of this. Hopefully I'll have died of natural causes by then. I leave no children to deal with the mess, I think it would be remiss of me.

Well for Starters the World's religions should start promoting contraception rather than condemning it. How likely is that??? World War III will take care of it long before that ever happens.

Well if the vaccination to sterilize is for real ( and it isnt) we could vaccinate some of the biggest nutjobs or the career broodmares of the religious world, like booze cut em off after two.

I support populatIon connectIon!

We are experiencing an artificial population bump because most of the babies born at a time when a high birth rate was necessary for the populaqtion because so many died young, are actually living longer lives. The current birth rate is not even at a replacement rate in much of the world, so once the older people from the days of a necissarily high birth rate die off, we are going to have a very rapidly declining population.

Unfortunately, Idiocracy wasn't just a funny fiction movie. People with certain kinds of intelligence put off having kids, sometimes until too late to have healthy kids or maybe any kids at all, and those who did had fewer kids, and the people with concerns for the population as a whole too often opted not to have kids, so any genetics related to certain kinds of intelligence or compassion didn't get passed along so plentifully as the genetics from the people who either only cared what they wanted (or thought they wanted), who didn't really think about it but didn't have anything better to do than have a bunch of kids, who were devoted to religions that ordered them to breed like bunny rabbits, or who just could not successfully follow the direction on their birth control. A few brighter, good people had some kids for various reasons, but basically, we unwittingly enacted a breeding program for psychopaths.