Lets imagine for a moment that with current trends in investment for energy supply, transportation and weapons of war, the planet couldn’t safely support the current levels of human population and the pollution, deforestation and general footprint of modern consumer society was such that we’d soon end up on an uninhabitable lump, with more plastic than wildlife and constant earthquakes bought about by fracking.

How would you solve this?

Reboot the server?

That’s not a moral dilemma – it’s a question with a huge number of possible answers.

Are you actually asking if genocide would be an appropriate resolution?

How would you solve this?

Kill anyone who asks awkward questions on the internet about it.

Put about half the developed world under the control of a tangerine shitgibbon, a large proportion of the rest controlled by a psychopathic former spy, add in a few fascist nutjobs, and wait for it all to go boom.

Drones.

How would you solve this?

Make me immortal and I’ll come up with something. Otherwise it’s the least of my problems.

compulsory sterilization of anyone who votes tory or the local equivalent plus anyone who drives a car unless they are a tradesperson who actually needs one, anyone earning over £100 000 a year or the local equivalent, anyone with a conviction for roadrage or other vi8olence, anyone with a conviction for fraud and anyone else I don’t like.
Give it a generation and there would only be 3 people left allowed to breed.

compulsory sterilization of anyone who votes tory or the local equivalent…

Socialism. Only a few million more deaths before we reach utopia!

We are overdue a population control event. Either a big war or a pandemic must be around the corner.

Unless our alien overlords have installed the over-population DLC.

Billion not million 5th!
*adds 5th to list*   😉

Terraform Mars.

tangerine shitgibbon

🙂

You could try improving education, sanitation, health, life expectancy at birth. There’s a falling population in Japan, Italy and elsewhere.

Although sterilizing conservatives and people who drive cars is a good suggestion and much more fun.

I have secret plans to take over the woirld.  Just you wait!

The Purge

the planet couldn’t safely support the current levels of human population and the pollution, deforestation and general footprint of modern consumer society

You don’t need to imagine this, we are already past that point.

How would you solve this?

I don’t have to

the planet couldn’t safely support the current levels

Crack on regardless! The problem is the solution! 😆

There’s a falling population in Japan, Italy and elsewhere

That’s just what they want you to believe. I’ve been to Japan, you can’t take two steps without tripping over a child or a pregnant woman.

you can’t take two steps without tripping over a child or a pregnant woman.

Not sure whether to trust this anecdotal evidence.

Were you mainly visiting nurseries and maternity wards during your visit?

don’t worry, the baby robins will save us.

@angeldust, I’d love to take the sole credit for that one but I got it from Charles Stross.

Nanotechnology grey plague.

I’d get a secret service to wire the tallest buildings in the west with explosives then get some government sponsored agents to fly some planes into them just before detonating the explosives. Then I’d engineer a clear trail of evidence pointing to an alleged terror group while leaving enough fragments in obscure Internet papers to allow keen eyed people to spot the truth.  They’d then go on and on and on about how much they really know causing the rest of the population to lose the will to live thereby solving the global pressure problem. Except of course all that global pressure stuff would turn out to be another cunning plot by a different arm of the government with its own group of people who really knew what’s going on, and they’d then fight to the death with the first lot (and the ones who knew where the movie set from the moon landings was). Only a hardy few would survive, but they’d then turn out to be a group of illuminati who were actually part of a foul paedophile ring.

Makes you think eh.

I’d ‘take care of’ anybody with a moustache. Other facial hair combinations are fine. Solo moustache and you’re gone. Look up dictators of the last couple of centuries and I’m clearly on to a winner.

Second option would be to introduce a death vote off for every single reality programme. Whoever gets voted off is sent to a firing squad and remaining contestants have to bury the loser. Winner gets to stay on for the next series. The world would be free of vapid, egocentric cockwombles within a generation.

I reckon I’ll probably be as dead as a dead thing by then

You don’t need to imagine this, we are already past that point.

Yep, and you don’t need to sort it all out as it will be sorted out naturally.

Step 1 – Billionaires end up with more and more of the worlds resources and companies

Step 2 – All people are working for those few billionaires for a while 10- 20 years

Step 3 – Revolution.  Kill the billionaires.

Step 4 – overall chaos and loss of control around the world leading in fighting and guerrilla wars

Step 5 – start all over again without learning a single thing.

How would you solve this?

first of all I would build this glove, a gauntlet if you wish ……….

I was gonna suggest everyone go vegan and live off grid, but even then we’d all perish from the farts and hidden resentment

How would you solve this?

Dust off and nuke from orbit, it’s the only way to be certain.

Reboot the server?

Pretty much, turn off at the wall and turn back on again.

How would you solve this?

It won’t be solved properly.

we’d soon end up on an uninhabitable lump, with more plastic than wildlife and constant earthquakes bought about by fracking.

This sooner or later 🙁. Enjoy life whilst  you can 👍👍

We could all get on space-ships to find another inhabitable planet, we could call them; Arks. You JHJ would be a candidate for the ‘B’ ark…

I just wouldn’t risk it to be honest, there’s enough tragedy in this world…

Look chaps – just appoint me supreme ruler.  I have already told you how to sort it out.

You heard it here first.  TJ for world dictator!

anyone earning over £100 000 a year or the local equivalent

TJ – Why do you dislike people who earn more than £100k?

Wot-eva pal, you’d just go all Soylent Green on us…

On which note, Charlton Heston has to be one of the tragedy greats, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, The NRA…

There again, speaking of the NRA, Oliver North has a somewhat more real world record of tragedy engineering…

It’s a little acknowledged fact that the etymological basis for the word dictator derives from the practice of stashing a potato down one’s pants to appear more manly. What was the question again? I got sidetracked.

Leave the EU.. it’ll be like survival of the fittest / smartest!!

Starve the thick ones as we run out of food and the poor ones can’t afford any.

Run out of medicines for the sickly ones.

A good cull of OAP spongers as there wouldnt be enough carers, nurses and doctors to look after them.

That should get rid of at least 10-20 million of societies more useless members…

That’s just what they want you to believe. I’ve been to Japan, you can’t take two steps without tripping over a child or a pregnant woman.

And I’ve been to Italy and had a lot of unprotected sex with a lot of Catholic women…

We should just take the warning labels off stuff – the population would thin itself out pretty quickly.

The gene-pool would also be strengthened as a result.

We just need to decide where the live/die stupidity cut-off is:  I think if you need label on a bag of nuts, telling you that it “may contain nuts” – you are probably a net drain on society, and we are better off without you.  Same with those “LOOK LEFT” signs on crossings outside hotels.

So, I guess…… Americans.