Human Culling.

we had a number of topics to choose from (none of them were any better than this) and we had to write an essay supporting the idea. this is what i ended up with.

Humanity is already far over the Earths maximum sustainable limit, and getting worse. A large sum of the worlds population suffers from severe hunger or starvation, and for the good of the future human race, must be culled. The planet is drowning in humans while being sucked dry from our needs, if we continue as is without drastic change, we will not survive much longer. Having considerably less people while the world figures out just what to do would give humanity ample time to fix its habits and addiction to unsustainable resources. 
Earth only has just over 148 million square kilometres of available land, this includes arid deserts, and Antarctica. Those two areas of land alone add up to over 22 million kilometres squared, 2 million less than the whole of North America. This leaves around 126 million Km2 for humans. With the worlds population sneaking its way up to 7 billion, when it reaches that mark there will be 0.018 km2 per person. That’s 5.5 people per km2, which equals 180 square feet per person. This means that if every person had a small house, and a very small front yard, there would be possibly 80 square feet per person left for things like farming, factories, rivers, lakes, roads, mountains, animals and nature. 
There is around 3 billion calories available per person each day, yet somehow just fewer than 1 billion people go hungry every year. A healthy adult only needs 2000 �" 3000 calories a day to stay healthy, this is an atrocious amount of extra food we’re producing that is not getting used properly. The average person in North America often eats two or three times that many calories in a day anyways, because there is so much food available. People are still going hungry, with 15 million of them dying each year, because it is too troublesome and costly to ship the food to where they are. The majority of the worlds food is not grown close to the most desperate countries in need of nutrition, so moving the needed food from its origin to the needy country, with no profit, costs too much for any company to do so. Farmers need payment, trucks and planes and ships need to be built, their crews and drivers need to be paid, the list goes on, and each step uses more and more oil, making the cost go higher and higher. 
Oil is what drives the economy, when the price goes up, the price of everything goes up, and when the price goes down, so do the prices of everything else. However, if the price were to drop so that food could be shipped all places so as to solve world hunger, the worlds oil-life span would shorten considerably, from its current 42 year due date. With less people, there would be less demand for oil, which would inevitably lengthen the amount of time we expect to able to use it as much as we do, giving us a longer time to find new resources to use, and greener ways to do things. 
There is already 9 million tonnes of chemical waste released into the air, land, and water each year already, on top of 28 million hectares of environment destroyed due to a combination of soil erosion, desertification, and forestry. There’s no hidden message here, the world is dying, and humans are killing it. Fewer humans means less need for resources, and less output of harmful waste in the environment. If we cannot get our gross need for resources under control now, then we need more time. Using resources slower will add plenty of time, and lessening the people requiring resources is a good answer, on top of lowering the average use of resources per person as is. 
Thinking globally, with the vast majority of the unproductive countries being the ones with the worst hunger problems and the most people populating them, it would make sense that if they do not contribute then they should not benefit from the rest of the worlds wealth. Their overpopulation and hunger problems, however, will only worsen until it is causing more pain and suffering than before. The only sure-fire way to permanently solve this problem of starvation and world hunger would be to install a global law, punishable by death, that if you are over the age of 20, unemployed for any length of time not due to medical reasons, not a student, or not contributing to the economy in any way, and in need of support from others with no return, then that said person will be euthanized. 
Starvation and widespread hunger is a disease on the human body. The human body is the entire human population as a whole, represented as one person. It is as if the human body has a limb that has been infected with gangrene. Soon the limb will die completely, but not before it spreads and gets worse, infecting other parts of the body. If there is no cure for the limb that would remove the risk of further infection right away, then it is not worth chasing the disease around as it slowly spreads, as it will eventually kill the human. The sensible thing to do would be to cut ones losses and amputate the infected limb, preventing the risk of further infection. 
Human hunger started is a small problem that the global economy ignored, figuring it would either sort itself out, or that it would never affect them. It’s now gotten to such a large ordeal that there is no answer that will fix it, only slow it. Removing most of people who are hungry or suffering from starvation would lower it to a fixable level. Human culling is something that will eventually be required for the human existence to continue. Doing so now would only be getting it sooner, with less people, changing a global epidemic to a problem with a solution so future generations will not have to deal with human hunger ever again. 
The results are: land shortages, food distribution problems, global inflation from high demand of oil, and worsening environmental damage from chemical waste. This is all from globally unproductive persons who require extra resources to cure them of a disease they have been born into, or have fallen into, who are growing in numbers every day. Sacrifices need to be made, and those being sacrificed should see themselves as heroes, saving the human race from a fate such as they have lived. If the worlds situation is left as is, with the same feeble amount of effort put into trying to solve this monster of an issue, it will soon overcome the globe, and bring the end of the human race upon itself sooner than anyone could expect. 

Author's Note

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