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Publish Not your original work? Add source Imagine waking up in a dystopian world where all trees are plastic, where all streets are buried in piles of trash, where pollution is so bad you can't see the sky, and where rivers have turned into concrete. Well, in fact, this is already happening in some places around the world, according to the eye-opening subreddit named Urban Hell. Its 689k members share "all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit," according to the group's description and you can see these are not pretty. Scroll through the real-life examples of urban hell below that reveal the dark side of modern development that often remains invisible. Psst! More urban hell examples can be found in our previous post right here. This post may include affiliate links. #1
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There are way too many humans in the world. (I don't have any kids btw) 55 55points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is very worthwhile watching the documentary with David Attenborough - How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... Treessimontrees Treessimontrees Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) If the history of the earth was 24 hours - humans show up around 35 seconds to midnight. Look at how much damage we've done already. 6 6points reply Ray_gunn Ray_gunn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago There's absolutely enough food, space and wealth to go around. The problem is greed creates inequality. 5 5points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Inequality absolutely is a problem. However, now there is the food etc to go around, the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “ Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 0 0points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Don’t pay attention to those who think not having kids is the right thing to do. Those who often complain when others judge their decision strangely enough. I always wonder : do they expect other people’s kids to take care of them when they grow old? Or do they have a plan not to depend on young people in the future? -14 -14points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is there something wrong with inequality? We're not all the same. -19 -19points reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm intrigued Damon, please expound. 7 7points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Steve, Damon never does.. 1 1point reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thank you for the heads-up Caro! :O) 1 1point reply jellybeb jellybeb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago birth sounds painful to me, so when I am older I will look into adopting :) 4 4points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ok. Lets do it. We follow your advice and stop reproducing. Now, in 100 years....what are we going to do? Everyone alive today will be dead. There is a reason for reproduction. We are animals and the only way to propagate our species is to reproduce. Reproduction is not the problem. Our societies are. Our attitudes and values need to change. 1 1point reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nobody is saying don't reproduce at all, just don't reproduce so much. There is no reason for anyone to have 12 children these days. 10 10points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I think they probably meant stop 'over' reproducing maybe ? ? Our societies absolutely are a problem I agree. There is enough to go round right now, though it doesn't happen. If things continue as they are in the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” We ignore this issue at our own peril. https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption That's just feeding people as well. What about the way we pollute? How exactly do we get to a situation where we end up causing zero net damage? Part by changing how we consume (very tough as it stands) but part by stabilising population growth. I suspect that is going to be inevitable at some point in the future. 2 2points reply Miss Cris Miss Cris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see no problem on human disparition. -1 -1point reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. You know the first step. -7 -7points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Has got nothing to do with people having children, but with greed, short-sightedness and very bad city development. 0 0points reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We are monkeys with anxiety. We can't just stay put -1 -1point reply tuzdayschild tuzdayschild Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's never going to happen. Better we learn how to treat one another. -1 -1point reply Ivo H Ivo H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This is not true. There's nothing wrong about reproducion itself. We need to stop selfish, nature- and people-abusing cretins from govern this beautiful earth, we need to support education and treat our world with respect, as it should've always been. And for this, we need good people, people that are smart, educated, moral and selfless. And unfortunately these are the only people humble enough to ever chose not having kids. We need good people more than ever, we need their children to adopt their way of thinking, so everyone can be a little more happy in the future. So please, if you want (and can ofc) do reproduce, I believe one day we'll all thank you and your kids for being great and selfless! :) -3 -3points reply Quinn Alexander Quinn Alexander Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation isn't the problem. We have enough to eliminate scarcity. It's the fact the people with the power to eliminate scarcity instead intend to go to the moon to show off their d***s to each other. The problem isn't the people on the bottom, it's the ones on top and the pervading belief that it's all us with nothing who are the problem that the ones on top keep circulating to remain in power. -5 -5points reply Kari Panda Kari Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I’m tired of this… 1) Humanity would go extinct within 100 years if it followed your suggestion. 2) Many wealthy countries have stagnating birth rates already. We don’t need to 'stop reproducing', we need to stop using more ressources than the planet can offer. What does it help if we reduce population by half yet we continue to exploit the earth ruthlessly? Yes, people shouldn‘t have a dozen children, but arguing that they shouldn‘t have any children is equally ignorant. (Before I get hate over this: If you don’t want children for whatever reason, that is totally fine. But saying nobody should have children is not.) -6 -6points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Thank God for the kids you don’t have then. -9 -9points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -16 -16points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. A very useful myth to some. -9 -9points reply keepgoing keepgoing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common denominator: overpopulation. It is what it is. I still don't understand the need to have 6 or 8 kids. Aren't 2 enough? 18 18points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Kinda gross when you think about all the average people who have about 20 children (there’s too many Mormon families out there) 10 10points reply Load More Replies... Chris Hooley Chris Hooley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 2 is still too many. 0 0points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -15 -15points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Where on earth do you get that idea from? 8 8points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. From reality? There's more than enough food, shelter, and resources to take care of three times our population. Predatory capitalism and greed are selfishly causing "scarcity". -13 -13points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This makes me so sad for the human race sand our planet. I agree with Fiona- too many humans. We need to slow (or halt) population growth. Why is this topic so taboo? 16 16points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) It is not "taboo" per se....but complicated. Who gets to have kids? How many do they get? What happens to kids conceived over the allowed number? Do we issue a birth permit? Do we charge a fee for it? How much? In what currency? What about twins? Triplets? And WHO gets to decide all of this?? It is SO much more than a simple "stop population growth"...once you actually start thinking about it, it becomes an extremely convoluted enterprise. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago None of the above. We stop fetishising parenthood as being somehow noble, and stop treating the childless as somehow lesser beings. 12 12points reply Christine Wilson Christine Wilson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely agree. Give out free birth control. 7 7points reply Toasty Toasty Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one with a brain does any of the things you listed. 7 7points reply Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then there must be a lot of medical miracles wandering around without one. 4 4points reply shep ona shep ona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not that hard. Every couple gets one kid. When a man has impregnated someone, they get a vasectomy courtesy of the state. That's it. 7 7points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) @Shep: Every couple gets one kid, huh? What happens with triplets, twins or other multiple births? If the kid dies, can they have another...or is it one BIRTH and not one kid? See, it is far from "not that hard"...there are tons of nuances you clearly have given little thought to. 0 0points reply anaona anaona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nope. Not hard. You get one. Kid dies, too bad. Triplets or twins you have to give them up and keep one. That's it. ONE. -1 -1point reply L' Enchanted L' Enchanted Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Seriously? You don't have kids do you? You have no idea how hard it would be to give up a kid concieved with love, a kid that you've kept under your heart for months... AND one kid would mean a decrease in population, which is also not desirable long term. Also, one kid policy - fast enough you'd realise how bad idea it is (people prefering boys over girls, ending up with not enough girls to keep the population going) 0 0points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 2 2points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a good start, of course. And education of women consistently leads to a lower birth rate and that should be one of the long term goals: access to good quality education for every girl worldwide (regardless of religious feelings). However, I think that we need more and faster.... 0 0points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Totally agree that's it's incredibly complicated. But I think the discussion should be open, ongoing and omnipresent. I do think it's a taboo subject *as well as* being complicated. Because religion gets its nose in the middle and the feeling that having as many babies as you'd like is a basic human right (I don't believe it should be). 0 0points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is this why everyone loves abortion? Maybe we should mandate abortion? -12 -12points reply Load More Comments POST Fiona Farman Fiona Farman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We need to stop reproducing. There are way too many humans in the world. (I don't have any kids btw) 55 55points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is very worthwhile watching the documentary with David Attenborough - How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... Treessimontrees Treessimontrees Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) If the history of the earth was 24 hours - humans show up around 35 seconds to midnight. Look at how much damage we've done already. 6 6points reply Ray_gunn Ray_gunn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago There's absolutely enough food, space and wealth to go around. The problem is greed creates inequality. 5 5points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Inequality absolutely is a problem. However, now there is the food etc to go around, the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “ Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 0 0points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Don’t pay attention to those who think not having kids is the right thing to do. Those who often complain when others judge their decision strangely enough. I always wonder : do they expect other people’s kids to take care of them when they grow old? Or do they have a plan not to depend on young people in the future? -14 -14points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is there something wrong with inequality? We're not all the same. -19 -19points reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm intrigued Damon, please expound. 7 7points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Steve, Damon never does.. 1 1point reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thank you for the heads-up Caro! :O) 1 1point reply jellybeb jellybeb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago birth sounds painful to me, so when I am older I will look into adopting :) 4 4points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ok. Lets do it. We follow your advice and stop reproducing. Now, in 100 years....what are we going to do? Everyone alive today will be dead. There is a reason for reproduction. We are animals and the only way to propagate our species is to reproduce. Reproduction is not the problem. Our societies are. Our attitudes and values need to change. 1 1point reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nobody is saying don't reproduce at all, just don't reproduce so much. There is no reason for anyone to have 12 children these days. 10 10points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I think they probably meant stop 'over' reproducing maybe ? ? Our societies absolutely are a problem I agree. There is enough to go round right now, though it doesn't happen. If things continue as they are in the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” We ignore this issue at our own peril. https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption That's just feeding people as well. What about the way we pollute? How exactly do we get to a situation where we end up causing zero net damage? Part by changing how we consume (very tough as it stands) but part by stabilising population growth. I suspect that is going to be inevitable at some point in the future. 2 2points reply Miss Cris Miss Cris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see no problem on human disparition. -1 -1point reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. You know the first step. -7 -7points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Has got nothing to do with people having children, but with greed, short-sightedness and very bad city development. 0 0points reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We are monkeys with anxiety. We can't just stay put -1 -1point reply tuzdayschild tuzdayschild Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's never going to happen. Better we learn how to treat one another. -1 -1point reply Ivo H Ivo H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This is not true. There's nothing wrong about reproducion itself. We need to stop selfish, nature- and people-abusing cretins from govern this beautiful earth, we need to support education and treat our world with respect, as it should've always been. And for this, we need good people, people that are smart, educated, moral and selfless. And unfortunately these are the only people humble enough to ever chose not having kids. We need good people more than ever, we need their children to adopt their way of thinking, so everyone can be a little more happy in the future. So please, if you want (and can ofc) do reproduce, I believe one day we'll all thank you and your kids for being great and selfless! :) -3 -3points reply Quinn Alexander Quinn Alexander Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation isn't the problem. We have enough to eliminate scarcity. It's the fact the people with the power to eliminate scarcity instead intend to go to the moon to show off their d***s to each other. The problem isn't the people on the bottom, it's the ones on top and the pervading belief that it's all us with nothing who are the problem that the ones on top keep circulating to remain in power. -5 -5points reply Kari Panda Kari Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I’m tired of this… 1) Humanity would go extinct within 100 years if it followed your suggestion. 2) Many wealthy countries have stagnating birth rates already. We don’t need to 'stop reproducing', we need to stop using more ressources than the planet can offer. What does it help if we reduce population by half yet we continue to exploit the earth ruthlessly? Yes, people shouldn‘t have a dozen children, but arguing that they shouldn‘t have any children is equally ignorant. (Before I get hate over this: If you don’t want children for whatever reason, that is totally fine. But saying nobody should have children is not.) -6 -6points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Thank God for the kids you don’t have then. -9 -9points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -16 -16points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. A very useful myth to some. -9 -9points reply keepgoing keepgoing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common denominator: overpopulation. It is what it is. I still don't understand the need to have 6 or 8 kids. Aren't 2 enough? 18 18points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Kinda gross when you think about all the average people who have about 20 children (there’s too many Mormon families out there) 10 10points reply Load More Replies... Chris Hooley Chris Hooley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 2 is still too many. 0 0points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -15 -15points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Where on earth do you get that idea from? 8 8points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. From reality? There's more than enough food, shelter, and resources to take care of three times our population. Predatory capitalism and greed are selfishly causing "scarcity". -13 -13points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This makes me so sad for the human race sand our planet. I agree with Fiona- too many humans. We need to slow (or halt) population growth. Why is this topic so taboo? 16 16points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) It is not "taboo" per se....but complicated. Who gets to have kids? How many do they get? What happens to kids conceived over the allowed number? Do we issue a birth permit? Do we charge a fee for it? How much? In what currency? What about twins? Triplets? And WHO gets to decide all of this?? It is SO much more than a simple "stop population growth"...once you actually start thinking about it, it becomes an extremely convoluted enterprise. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago None of the above. We stop fetishising parenthood as being somehow noble, and stop treating the childless as somehow lesser beings. 12 12points reply Christine Wilson Christine Wilson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely agree. Give out free birth control. 7 7points reply Toasty Toasty Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one with a brain does any of the things you listed. 7 7points reply Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then there must be a lot of medical miracles wandering around without one. 4 4points reply shep ona shep ona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not that hard. Every couple gets one kid. When a man has impregnated someone, they get a vasectomy courtesy of the state. That's it. 7 7points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) @Shep: Every couple gets one kid, huh? What happens with triplets, twins or other multiple births? If the kid dies, can they have another...or is it one BIRTH and not one kid? See, it is far from "not that hard"...there are tons of nuances you clearly have given little thought to. 0 0points reply anaona anaona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nope. Not hard. You get one. Kid dies, too bad. Triplets or twins you have to give them up and keep one. That's it. ONE. -1 -1point reply L' Enchanted L' Enchanted Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Seriously? You don't have kids do you? You have no idea how hard it would be to give up a kid concieved with love, a kid that you've kept under your heart for months... AND one kid would mean a decrease in population, which is also not desirable long term. Also, one kid policy - fast enough you'd realise how bad idea it is (people prefering boys over girls, ending up with not enough girls to keep the population going) 0 0points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 2 2points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a good start, of course. And education of women consistently leads to a lower birth rate and that should be one of the long term goals: access to good quality education for every girl worldwide (regardless of religious feelings). However, I think that we need more and faster.... 0 0points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Totally agree that's it's incredibly complicated. But I think the discussion should be open, ongoing and omnipresent. I do think it's a taboo subject *as well as* being complicated. Because religion gets its nose in the middle and the feeling that having as many babies as you'd like is a basic human right (I don't believe it should be). 0 0points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is this why everyone loves abortion? Maybe we should mandate abortion? -12 -12points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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Publish Not your original work? Add source Imagine waking up in a dystopian world where all trees are plastic, where all streets are buried in piles of trash, where pollution is so bad you can't see the sky, and where rivers have turned into concrete. Well, in fact, this is already happening in some places around the world, according to the eye-opening subreddit named Urban Hell. Its 689k members share "all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit," according to the group's description and you can see these are not pretty. Scroll through the real-life examples of urban hell below that reveal the dark side of modern development that often remains invisible. Psst! More urban hell examples can be found in our previous post right here. This post may include affiliate links. #1
A Boy Gathers Recyclable Items From A Semi-Dry Drain At Taimoor Nagar In New Delhi
ParaMike46 Report Final score: 300points POST Tamra Stiffler Tamra Stiffler Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Oh my god. 151 151points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2Magnitogorsk One Of The Worst Polluted Cities In Russia Only 28% Of The Children Born In The Town Are Fully Healthy
Travel_legend Report Final score: 272points POST Hans Hans Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This isn't even urban...just hell. 138 138points reply View more comments #3Inequality In Tembisa South Africa
PTRMT Report Final score: 267points POST Jennifer Briscese Jennifer Briscese Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Powerful photo 121 121points reply View more comments To find out more about urban living and the downsides of it, Bored Panda reached out to Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. "The traditional advantage of urban life is that cities are engines of technoscientific development and cultural exchange, and that is true now more than ever, as we see new megacities of 10 million or more people springing up around the world," Lisa explained. According to the professor, since the development of large industrial cities in the 1800s, the downsides of urban living have become increasingly evident. "Cities organized around factories and power plants tend to be environmental disasters, with clouds of pollution sometimes literally blotting out the sun and preventing the growth of anything green on the ground." #4Ah Yes Trees
MAAAS399 Report Final score: 257points POST Spinz Spinz Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago They look like something...else, at first 149 149points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5San Francisco USA
Sayl0 Report Final score: 249points POST Hans Hans Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago How a country with the self-understanding of being the world's leader would let this happen is beyond comprehension. 221 221points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6Norilsk Russia
carlelov Report Final score: 244points POST Capelli rosa e patate Capelli rosa e patate Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Norilsk was built by Gulag prisoners. Lead mines. The rain there is basically acid. Horrible that anyone still has to live there, such a hopeless place 9 9points reply View more comments Another downside is that "industrial and postindustrial cities also tend to attract disproportionate numbers of both highly skilled workers (often in finance or business) and unskilled laborers (often in factories or domestic work). As such, they make evident the very real and increasing gap between the rich and the poor." "Finally, cities tend to be surrounded by suburbs with single-family homes that, in theory, offer a better balance between nature and technology. In practice, however, suburbs have their own problems: their emphasis on visual uniformity is often part of a larger tendency toward cultural segregation, and the need to drive everywhere-including in and out of the city-only adds to our current environmental problems," Lisa explained. #7A Photo Of Central Park During The Great Depression New York 1933
Double_Usual3271 Report Final score: 237points POST SentimentAndBadJokes SentimentAndBadJokes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Such a shocking transformation to what is is now. 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8Town Square In Bartoszyce Poland Before And After
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dredogue Report Final score: 228points POST KJ KJ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago How grim does that look, I will remain out in the countryside. 70 70points reply View More Replies... View more comments When asked whether we can go backward and undo the harm that historic urban development practices have done to the physical world around us, Lisa said that she doesn't think it's possible. "But I do believe we can go forward in new ways," she added. "In particular, we can learn from our mistakes and rehabilitate the spaces we've already created, rather than simply abandoning or bulldozing over them. We can do this by either inventing new or recovering old technoscientific practices that better respect the coincidence between nature and culture and by practicing a different kind of urban design that springs from the lived reality of city-dwellers, rather than the abstract theorizing of planners and developers who often live in spaces far removed from the cities they design." #10Burj Al Babas Turkey The Largest Ghost Town In The World
8_Hoot Report Final score: 221points POST KJ KJ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) "where do you live", "Im in the white house with a turret". 161 161points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11Disgusting Canal Near My Home In Manila I Wish People Just Would Bother To Care How Our Environment Is Dying Fast
AgentFive005 Report Final score: 209points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I can nearly smell it, eeeew 77 77points reply View more comments #12Ferentari The Poorest Area Of Bucharest Romania - Most Apartments Are Squatted And Have No Electricity Hard To Believe This Is In The European Union
biwook Report Final score: 206points POST Bobert Robertson Bobert Robertson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Romania, as a whole, is a beautiful country, but this is sad 69 69points reply View more comments Lisa explained that if this sounds like utopian science fiction, that's because it is. "Before Lang riveted the world with his image of the city as a gray, vertical dystopia that destroys nature and literally increases the gulf between rich and poor, stories by women of color including Bengali author Rokheya Hossain's 'Sultana's Dream' (1905) and American writer Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902) presented readers with an alternative to urban hell: the 'garden megacity' that runs on solar power and where the equality of all people, regardless of race or gender, is made literal through horizontal urban design." The professor continued: "In the 1970s, American author and New York City dweller Samuel R. Delany's Triton and Dhalgren rebutted the narrative of 'white flight' from permanently ruined cities by celebrating the excitement he saw in the women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people around him moving into cities and making them their own. This led Delany to imagine what he called 'heterotopian' urban spaces where people use technology and art to create so many new identities and communities that it becomes impossible for one group to economically or politically dominate another." #13The Flag Of Urban Hell
thefridgeinthegarage Report Final score: 194points POST KJ KJ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That must have taken some effort to get the trolley up there in the first place. 80 80points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14Las Vegas
Zealousideal_Ad4636 Report Final score: 191points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They all look the same, imagine trying to find your house... 61 61points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15Macau
FishMonkeyCow Report Final score: 190points POST Ivo H Ivo H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm affraid that having this kind of appartment will soon be considered lucky. 110 110points reply View More Replies... View more comments "More recently, works including Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998); Nigerian digital artist Olelekan Jeyifous's 'Shanty Megastructures' (2015) and 'Frozen Zone' (2021), and American filmmaker Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) have created what I call a 'nutopian' tradition of speculative storytelling celebrating how indigenous peoples around the world draw and weave together their own diverse knowledge systems with Western ones to begin the long but literally fruitful process of reclaiming urban spaces and creating better futures for all," the professor explains. #16Huntington Beach California During The Oil Boom Of 1928
RareGentleman Report Final score: 183points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Don't particularly like seeing oil platforms in our Oceans either! 66 66points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17Not Sure If This Fits The Sub Gallons And Gallons Of Water Wasted Just To Keep Lush Green Golf Fields In The Middle Of The Desert
runy05 Report Final score: 183points POST yeciye yeciye Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago At least they got sand traps for free. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18This Beautiful View From My NYC Apartment
SlenderFinger Report Final score: 177points POST ElenaK ElenaK Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And how much does it cost? 2500 per month? 87 87points reply View More Replies... View more comments The reason why Lisa has hope-"and the reason that all these authors have such beautiful future visions of the reclaimed city-is because real people are trying to build such futures for us now, in the real world!" "For example, here in the U.S., urban farmers Will Allen and Emmanuel Pratt have won MacArthur 'genius' grants for their innovative use of both indigenous and Western farming practices to replace urban food deserts with locally owned food oases, while members of the Black Quantum Futurism Collective hold events to collect and share Black history and urban knowledge." #1916th Century Mill Surrounded By Brand New Concrete In Seaside Bulgaria
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tanmaypendse63 Report Final score: 173points POST SentimentAndBadJokes SentimentAndBadJokes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Kinda cool photo though. 76 76points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21Lying Skyscraper In Moscow About 736m Long
wicnfuai Report Final score: 163points POST Manndy Fisher Manndy Fisher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ah yeah.. the Soviet Union architecture.. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective According to Lisa, the conversion of old rail tracks into green beltlines through cities like New York and Atlanta indicates things are taking a turn for the better. "It shows real attention to the way that people actually live in and use their cities, as well as the possibility that we can bring together nature and infrastructure in ways that benefit the many rather than just the few." Interestingly, this isn't just happening in the U.S. "In Kisumu City, Kenya, the Food Liaison Advisory Group is working to reconnect the city with the larger region to ensure supplies of healthy food and give rural farmers access to wider markets, while urban dwellers in India can use the 'Clean India' app to track and help resolve sanitation issues in their own and other nearby cities," Lisa explained and added that she can't wait to see what kinds of new and hopefully more utopian science fictional cities these actions inspire. #22Intersection Of Two Avenues In Sao Paulo Brazil
RAEL_ATK Report Final score: 157points POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And all because they couldn't follow the basic rules of a box junction - in the UK it is illegal to enter a box junction unless it is clear on the other side and you can be fined if you stop on the yellow hatchings - precisely to stop this kind of problem. 114 114points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23Vertical Slum Luanda Angola
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stereoworld Report Final score: 156points POST Manndy Fisher Manndy Fisher Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Dreamland indeed 65 65points reply View More Replies... View more comments In the not-so-distant past, urbanization was understood as this ideal mode of modern living, the one which seemed to be very efficient, orderly, and adaptable to individual needs. Most importantly, it aimed at catering to a rapidly soaring population that found itself lacking in space, infrastructure, and opportunities in suburban areas. Our economies have become more industrialized over the past few hundred years, which made people move to cities. The United Nations (2018) predicted that by the year 2050, 68% of the global human population would live in urban areas, constantly growing in surface. And today, we no longer talk about cities, there's a new term for cities much bigger than a 10-million population and it's called a "megacity." Tokyo is an example of a megacity with nearly 40 million residents. #25Children Playing Basketball Near The John E Amos Coal-Fired Power Plant In Poca West Virginia
ParaMike46 Report Final score: 152points POST Beth L Beth L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Most of what you're seeing there is steam from the cooling towers 101 101points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26Distance Between Two Apartments Guangzhou
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There are way too many humans in the world. (I don't have any kids btw) 55 55points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is very worthwhile watching the documentary with David Attenborough - How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... Treessimontrees Treessimontrees Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) If the history of the earth was 24 hours - humans show up around 35 seconds to midnight. Look at how much damage we've done already. 6 6points reply Ray_gunn Ray_gunn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago There's absolutely enough food, space and wealth to go around. The problem is greed creates inequality. 5 5points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Inequality absolutely is a problem. However, now there is the food etc to go around, the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “ Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 0 0points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Don’t pay attention to those who think not having kids is the right thing to do. Those who often complain when others judge their decision strangely enough. I always wonder : do they expect other people’s kids to take care of them when they grow old? Or do they have a plan not to depend on young people in the future? -14 -14points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is there something wrong with inequality? We're not all the same. -19 -19points reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm intrigued Damon, please expound. 7 7points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Steve, Damon never does.. 1 1point reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thank you for the heads-up Caro! :O) 1 1point reply jellybeb jellybeb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago birth sounds painful to me, so when I am older I will look into adopting :) 4 4points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ok. Lets do it. We follow your advice and stop reproducing. Now, in 100 years....what are we going to do? Everyone alive today will be dead. There is a reason for reproduction. We are animals and the only way to propagate our species is to reproduce. Reproduction is not the problem. Our societies are. Our attitudes and values need to change. 1 1point reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nobody is saying don't reproduce at all, just don't reproduce so much. There is no reason for anyone to have 12 children these days. 10 10points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I think they probably meant stop 'over' reproducing maybe ? ? Our societies absolutely are a problem I agree. There is enough to go round right now, though it doesn't happen. If things continue as they are in the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” We ignore this issue at our own peril. https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption That's just feeding people as well. What about the way we pollute? How exactly do we get to a situation where we end up causing zero net damage? Part by changing how we consume (very tough as it stands) but part by stabilising population growth. I suspect that is going to be inevitable at some point in the future. 2 2points reply Miss Cris Miss Cris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see no problem on human disparition. -1 -1point reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. You know the first step. -7 -7points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Has got nothing to do with people having children, but with greed, short-sightedness and very bad city development. 0 0points reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We are monkeys with anxiety. We can't just stay put -1 -1point reply tuzdayschild tuzdayschild Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's never going to happen. Better we learn how to treat one another. -1 -1point reply Ivo H Ivo H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This is not true. There's nothing wrong about reproducion itself. We need to stop selfish, nature- and people-abusing cretins from govern this beautiful earth, we need to support education and treat our world with respect, as it should've always been. And for this, we need good people, people that are smart, educated, moral and selfless. And unfortunately these are the only people humble enough to ever chose not having kids. We need good people more than ever, we need their children to adopt their way of thinking, so everyone can be a little more happy in the future. So please, if you want (and can ofc) do reproduce, I believe one day we'll all thank you and your kids for being great and selfless! :) -3 -3points reply Quinn Alexander Quinn Alexander Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation isn't the problem. We have enough to eliminate scarcity. It's the fact the people with the power to eliminate scarcity instead intend to go to the moon to show off their d***s to each other. The problem isn't the people on the bottom, it's the ones on top and the pervading belief that it's all us with nothing who are the problem that the ones on top keep circulating to remain in power. -5 -5points reply Kari Panda Kari Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I’m tired of this… 1) Humanity would go extinct within 100 years if it followed your suggestion. 2) Many wealthy countries have stagnating birth rates already. We don’t need to 'stop reproducing', we need to stop using more ressources than the planet can offer. What does it help if we reduce population by half yet we continue to exploit the earth ruthlessly? Yes, people shouldn‘t have a dozen children, but arguing that they shouldn‘t have any children is equally ignorant. (Before I get hate over this: If you don’t want children for whatever reason, that is totally fine. But saying nobody should have children is not.) -6 -6points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Thank God for the kids you don’t have then. -9 -9points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -16 -16points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. A very useful myth to some. -9 -9points reply keepgoing keepgoing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common denominator: overpopulation. It is what it is. I still don't understand the need to have 6 or 8 kids. Aren't 2 enough? 18 18points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Kinda gross when you think about all the average people who have about 20 children (there’s too many Mormon families out there) 10 10points reply Load More Replies... Chris Hooley Chris Hooley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 2 is still too many. 0 0points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -15 -15points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Where on earth do you get that idea from? 8 8points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. From reality? There's more than enough food, shelter, and resources to take care of three times our population. Predatory capitalism and greed are selfishly causing "scarcity". -13 -13points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This makes me so sad for the human race sand our planet. I agree with Fiona- too many humans. We need to slow (or halt) population growth. Why is this topic so taboo? 16 16points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) It is not "taboo" per se....but complicated. Who gets to have kids? How many do they get? What happens to kids conceived over the allowed number? Do we issue a birth permit? Do we charge a fee for it? How much? In what currency? What about twins? Triplets? And WHO gets to decide all of this?? It is SO much more than a simple "stop population growth"...once you actually start thinking about it, it becomes an extremely convoluted enterprise. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago None of the above. We stop fetishising parenthood as being somehow noble, and stop treating the childless as somehow lesser beings. 12 12points reply Christine Wilson Christine Wilson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely agree. Give out free birth control. 7 7points reply Toasty Toasty Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one with a brain does any of the things you listed. 7 7points reply Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then there must be a lot of medical miracles wandering around without one. 4 4points reply shep ona shep ona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not that hard. Every couple gets one kid. When a man has impregnated someone, they get a vasectomy courtesy of the state. That's it. 7 7points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) @Shep: Every couple gets one kid, huh? What happens with triplets, twins or other multiple births? If the kid dies, can they have another...or is it one BIRTH and not one kid? See, it is far from "not that hard"...there are tons of nuances you clearly have given little thought to. 0 0points reply anaona anaona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nope. Not hard. You get one. Kid dies, too bad. Triplets or twins you have to give them up and keep one. That's it. ONE. -1 -1point reply L' Enchanted L' Enchanted Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Seriously? You don't have kids do you? You have no idea how hard it would be to give up a kid concieved with love, a kid that you've kept under your heart for months... AND one kid would mean a decrease in population, which is also not desirable long term. Also, one kid policy - fast enough you'd realise how bad idea it is (people prefering boys over girls, ending up with not enough girls to keep the population going) 0 0points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 2 2points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a good start, of course. And education of women consistently leads to a lower birth rate and that should be one of the long term goals: access to good quality education for every girl worldwide (regardless of religious feelings). However, I think that we need more and faster.... 0 0points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Totally agree that's it's incredibly complicated. But I think the discussion should be open, ongoing and omnipresent. I do think it's a taboo subject *as well as* being complicated. Because religion gets its nose in the middle and the feeling that having as many babies as you'd like is a basic human right (I don't believe it should be). 0 0points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is this why everyone loves abortion? Maybe we should mandate abortion? -12 -12points reply Load More Comments POST Fiona Farman Fiona Farman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We need to stop reproducing. There are way too many humans in the world. (I don't have any kids btw) 55 55points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It is very worthwhile watching the documentary with David Attenborough - How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... Treessimontrees Treessimontrees Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) If the history of the earth was 24 hours - humans show up around 35 seconds to midnight. Look at how much damage we've done already. 6 6points reply Ray_gunn Ray_gunn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago There's absolutely enough food, space and wealth to go around. The problem is greed creates inequality. 5 5points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Inequality absolutely is a problem. However, now there is the food etc to go around, the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “ Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 0 0points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Don’t pay attention to those who think not having kids is the right thing to do. Those who often complain when others judge their decision strangely enough. I always wonder : do they expect other people’s kids to take care of them when they grow old? Or do they have a plan not to depend on young people in the future? -14 -14points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is there something wrong with inequality? We're not all the same. -19 -19points reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm intrigued Damon, please expound. 7 7points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Steve, Damon never does.. 1 1point reply Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thank you for the heads-up Caro! :O) 1 1point reply jellybeb jellybeb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago birth sounds painful to me, so when I am older I will look into adopting :) 4 4points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ok. Lets do it. We follow your advice and stop reproducing. Now, in 100 years....what are we going to do? Everyone alive today will be dead. There is a reason for reproduction. We are animals and the only way to propagate our species is to reproduce. Reproduction is not the problem. Our societies are. Our attitudes and values need to change. 1 1point reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nobody is saying don't reproduce at all, just don't reproduce so much. There is no reason for anyone to have 12 children these days. 10 10points reply Rosie Hamilton Rosie Hamilton Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I think they probably meant stop 'over' reproducing maybe ? ? Our societies absolutely are a problem I agree. There is enough to go round right now, though it doesn't happen. If things continue as they are in the future there won't be. At what point should we act? “Global population is expected to exceed 11 billion people by 2100 unless actions are taken to stabilise population growth. Healthy diets from sustainable food systems are possible for up to 10 billion people but become increasingly unlikely past this population threshold.” We ignore this issue at our own peril. https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption That's just feeding people as well. What about the way we pollute? How exactly do we get to a situation where we end up causing zero net damage? Part by changing how we consume (very tough as it stands) but part by stabilising population growth. I suspect that is going to be inevitable at some point in the future. 2 2points reply Miss Cris Miss Cris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I see no problem on human disparition. -1 -1point reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. You know the first step. -7 -7points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Has got nothing to do with people having children, but with greed, short-sightedness and very bad city development. 0 0points reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We are monkeys with anxiety. We can't just stay put -1 -1point reply tuzdayschild tuzdayschild Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's never going to happen. Better we learn how to treat one another. -1 -1point reply Ivo H Ivo H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This is not true. There's nothing wrong about reproducion itself. We need to stop selfish, nature- and people-abusing cretins from govern this beautiful earth, we need to support education and treat our world with respect, as it should've always been. And for this, we need good people, people that are smart, educated, moral and selfless. And unfortunately these are the only people humble enough to ever chose not having kids. We need good people more than ever, we need their children to adopt their way of thinking, so everyone can be a little more happy in the future. So please, if you want (and can ofc) do reproduce, I believe one day we'll all thank you and your kids for being great and selfless! :) -3 -3points reply Quinn Alexander Quinn Alexander Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation isn't the problem. We have enough to eliminate scarcity. It's the fact the people with the power to eliminate scarcity instead intend to go to the moon to show off their d***s to each other. The problem isn't the people on the bottom, it's the ones on top and the pervading belief that it's all us with nothing who are the problem that the ones on top keep circulating to remain in power. -5 -5points reply Kari Panda Kari Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I’m tired of this… 1) Humanity would go extinct within 100 years if it followed your suggestion. 2) Many wealthy countries have stagnating birth rates already. We don’t need to 'stop reproducing', we need to stop using more ressources than the planet can offer. What does it help if we reduce population by half yet we continue to exploit the earth ruthlessly? Yes, people shouldn‘t have a dozen children, but arguing that they shouldn‘t have any children is equally ignorant. (Before I get hate over this: If you don’t want children for whatever reason, that is totally fine. But saying nobody should have children is not.) -6 -6points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Thank God for the kids you don’t have then. -9 -9points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -16 -16points reply Ueda Ueda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. A very useful myth to some. -9 -9points reply keepgoing keepgoing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common denominator: overpopulation. It is what it is. I still don't understand the need to have 6 or 8 kids. Aren't 2 enough? 18 18points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Kinda gross when you think about all the average people who have about 20 children (there’s too many Mormon families out there) 10 10points reply Load More Replies... Chris Hooley Chris Hooley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 2 is still too many. 0 0points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Overpopulation is a myth. -15 -15points reply Seabeast Seabeast Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Where on earth do you get that idea from? 8 8points reply Danny Fox Danny Fox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. From reality? There's more than enough food, shelter, and resources to take care of three times our population. Predatory capitalism and greed are selfishly causing "scarcity". -13 -13points reply Lucas Lucas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago https://populationmatters.org/resources-consumption 4 4points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This makes me so sad for the human race sand our planet. I agree with Fiona- too many humans. We need to slow (or halt) population growth. Why is this topic so taboo? 16 16points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) It is not "taboo" per se....but complicated. Who gets to have kids? How many do they get? What happens to kids conceived over the allowed number? Do we issue a birth permit? Do we charge a fee for it? How much? In what currency? What about twins? Triplets? And WHO gets to decide all of this?? It is SO much more than a simple "stop population growth"...once you actually start thinking about it, it becomes an extremely convoluted enterprise. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago None of the above. We stop fetishising parenthood as being somehow noble, and stop treating the childless as somehow lesser beings. 12 12points reply Christine Wilson Christine Wilson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely agree. Give out free birth control. 7 7points reply Toasty Toasty Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one with a brain does any of the things you listed. 7 7points reply Jinx The Pet Rock Jinx The Pet Rock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Then there must be a lot of medical miracles wandering around without one. 4 4points reply shep ona shep ona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not that hard. Every couple gets one kid. When a man has impregnated someone, they get a vasectomy courtesy of the state. That's it. 7 7points reply Aria Whitaker Aria Whitaker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) @Shep: Every couple gets one kid, huh? What happens with triplets, twins or other multiple births? If the kid dies, can they have another...or is it one BIRTH and not one kid? See, it is far from "not that hard"...there are tons of nuances you clearly have given little thought to. 0 0points reply anaona anaona Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nope. Not hard. You get one. Kid dies, too bad. Triplets or twins you have to give them up and keep one. That's it. ONE. -1 -1point reply L' Enchanted L' Enchanted Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Seriously? You don't have kids do you? You have no idea how hard it would be to give up a kid concieved with love, a kid that you've kept under your heart for months... AND one kid would mean a decrease in population, which is also not desirable long term. Also, one kid policy - fast enough you'd realise how bad idea it is (people prefering boys over girls, ending up with not enough girls to keep the population going) 0 0points reply Elmie Pumpkinbush Elmie Pumpkinbush Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago This comment has been deleted. 2 2points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a good start, of course. And education of women consistently leads to a lower birth rate and that should be one of the long term goals: access to good quality education for every girl worldwide (regardless of religious feelings). However, I think that we need more and faster.... 0 0points reply wv10014 wv10014 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Totally agree that's it's incredibly complicated. But I think the discussion should be open, ongoing and omnipresent. I do think it's a taboo subject *as well as* being complicated. Because religion gets its nose in the middle and the feeling that having as many babies as you'd like is a basic human right (I don't believe it should be). 0 0points reply Damon Tripodi Damon Tripodi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Is this why everyone loves abortion? Maybe we should mandate abortion? -12 -12points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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