The Desire for an Apocalypse?

[Reach]

'm rambling a bit here but what I'm trying to say is that it's impossible for humans to be stopped from reproducing, especially if you use only legislation. People will do it anyways.

I don't think anyone has tried, but I'm nearly positive a reversible form of birth control could be done on all females to prevent them from reproducing until that process is reversed. So uh, certainly not impossible, though I agree that it is human nature to reproduce. However, most people treat it like a right, and some abuse that right irresponsibly with severe consequences, which is something that bothers me greatly.

It's pretty evident humans can't continue to reproduce forever. An apocalyptic event would be terrible way to go about fixing our problem temporarily, but I suppose if you scroll far enough into the future it's inevitable in some form. The earth contains a limited amount of resources, as does the universe. The human race will perish eventually, consequently, likely in a very short time period. We've already outgrown our capacity at least once when technology came along to save us, but I doubt that will keep happening. You can continue to produce more and more engineered food and space to fit more people on this planet but it will not be able to hold a growing population forever.

Thankfully as countries develop their population growth levels off (see Europe). It's the developing countries that are responsible for the overpopulation, so population control might not even be necessary. An apocalyptic event is still unavoidable though, whether it's a good thing or bad thing, assuming you define it as widespread disaster that involves the death of nearly everyone/everyone.