• Question: If you had to invent something to stop world population what would it be

    Asked by anon-235997 to Tom, Rachel, Priya, Jessica, Dan, Beatrice on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Priya Silverstein

      Priya Silverstein answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      Oooh, I don’t think I’m qualified to answer that question! I guess the psychologist’s answer would be to tap into WHY people want to have children and try to “fix” it that way? But the desire to procreate is evolutionarily one of the most important things for survival of your genes, so I don’t know how easy that would be!

    • Photo: Beatrice Hayes

      Beatrice Hayes answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      This is a really interesting question. I agree with Priya that I am not qualified to give a very good answer!! I think perhaps trying to give everyone across the world, especially in poorer countries, education and opportunities so that they can make their own decisions about having children.

    • Photo: Jessica Pope

      Jessica Pope answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      It might be controversial, but maybe some kind of mandatory “test” to assess if people have the resources to have children, in terms of time, finances, intelligence/common sense, personality, emotional stability? It’s not the most psychological answer, but it could be something?

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