[alancalverd]

The policy I advocate is to abolish all child benefits and pay every woman £500 every 6 months if she isn't pregnant. No coercion, no persuasion, just a simple choice. You can vary the amount in line with the local economy and apply it everywhere.

I don't expect an immediate worldwide uptake, but it would be easy to apply the policy in Great Britain and demonstrate the benefits: indefinitely  sustainable and wholly independent agriculture and energy, better housing, better pensions, no unemployment.....

[hamdani yusuf]

The policy I advocate is to abolish all child benefits and pay every woman £500 every 6 months if she isn't pregnant. No coercion, no persuasion, just a simple choice. You can vary the amount in line with the local economy and apply it everywhere.

How did you get those numbers?

[alancalverd]

In the UK, it's about half of what each child costs the taxpayer at present.  The sum has to be big enough to make contraception positively attractive (it's free anyway) and allow a girl to invest enough (by delaying her first pregnancy) to launch one child into the world and feed it thereafter. It will not adequately support two children, but I can make special provision for a multiple birth conceived naturally.

It's also some kind of compensation for women who are unable to conceive, perhaps enough to fund one round of IVF.

I envisage the payment starting on a girl's 14th birthday and running to at least age 50.

[Zer0]

This is where is see things falling apart...

UK is Not the Whole Wide World!
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If tomorrow (overnight) Australia becomes 100% green & renewable energy competent...It Will Not Make Any Significant Difference.
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China has Scrapped The...
" One Child Policy ".

India Never had A...
" One Child Policy ".

Certain Religions have a Trend to Forsake Contraceptives, as
" Children Are a Gift from GOD! ".
(The More, The Merrier.)

& Will All Due Respect, the UN is a Joke!
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Ps - Similar to the H-bomb, someone someday shall come up with an Impotency BomB!
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[alancalverd]

UK is Not the Whole Wide World!

Nor is a test tube a thousand gallon production plant or a hundred acre field, but you'd be mad not to do your first experiment in a closed, controlled environment.

...notable inventions by British inventors are Hypodermic syringe, Alexander Wood (1853), Toothbrush, William Addis(1770), Soda water, Joseph Priestley (1772), Portland cement, Joseph Aspdin (1824), Photography, William Henry Fox Talbot (1835), Light bulb, Joseph Swan (1880), Thermos flask, Sir James Dewar (1892), Television, John Logie Baird (1925), Hovercraft, Christopher Cockerell (1953), World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1989), Steam turbine, Charles Parson (1884), ATM, John Shepherd-Barron (1967), Military tank, Ernest Swinton (1914), Stainless Steel, Harry Brearley (1913), and Electric Vacuum cleaner, Hubert Cecil Booth (1901).

which seem to have had some impact, alongside the English language, penicillin, vaccination, MRI, CT, the chronometer, the digital computer, the jet engine, the steam engine, tarmac, radar, and the electric motor, worldwide.

But frankly, if the rest of the world wants to go to hell in a handbasket, why should I care? I live here, and it would be a lot nicer with fewer people.

[hamdani yusuf]

But frankly, if the rest of the world wants to go to hell in a handbasket, why should I care? I live here, and it would be a lot nicer with fewer people.

If their action affect you directly or indirectly. Like increasing sea level by 100 m.

[alancalverd]

No big deal. I live at 110 m AMSL and enjoy sea fishing. Not having to drive an hour to the coast would be very welcome.  A small boat will also take me to the airfield which is at 120m AMSL. Some of my client clinics are in basements but there is plenty of work in operating theaters, which tend to be higher up the building. Might have to swap the plane for a helicopter, but that's just another tax-deductible adventure.

[hamdani yusuf]

No big deal. I live at 110 m AMSL and enjoy sea fishing. Not having to drive an hour to the coast would be very welcome.  A small boat will also take me to the airfield which is at 120m AMSL. Some of my client clinics are in basements but there is plenty of work in operating theaters, which tend to be higher up the building. Might have to swap the plane for a helicopter, but that's just another tax-deductible adventure.

Those who live at lower ground will have to evacuate to higher ground, and some of them may go closer to your neighborhood.

[alancalverd]

I reserve the right to defend my property, and they will have to cross several other people's land to get to mine. Why do you think royal castles were always built on a hill or a bend in a river?

[hamdani yusuf]

I reserve the right to defend my property, and they will have to cross several other people's land to get to mine. Why do you think royal castles were always built on a hill or a bend in a river?

Their number may exceed your ammunition.

[alancalverd]

Always a possibility: you can either go down fighting or die without trying. Most sieges were won by the invader, but in this case the invader is by definition a bit short of resources.

My flag will bear the simple motto "All disaster movies begin with someone ignoring a scientist".

[alancalverd]

someone someday shall come up with an Impotency BomB!

Cart before horse. You only need one male to fertilise a billion females.

[Zer0]

someone someday shall come up with an Impotency BomB!

Cart before horse. You only need one male to fertilise a billion females.

I was hoping the
" Impotency BomB " would be Gender Neutral.

Also a bit amazed how certain people Think Nothing would affect them...if half the planet was destroyed.

Ps - We can all hold onto our own opinions & choose to live in our own personal realities...but the sooner we realize the truth, the better it would be for All of Us.
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(There is Only One Planet Earth, & No Plan B)

[Bored chemist]

, but it would be easy to apply the policy in Great Britain

It would be even easier to apply it in a convent.
And equally pointless.
The UK birth rate is already below 2 per couple.

It's easy to persuade people to have fewer kids when their future doesn't depend on having some kin to look after them in their dotage.

So you are proposing a solution that doesn't actually work in the places where it needs to.

[Bored chemist]

My flag will bear the simple motto "All disaster movies begin with someone ignoring a scientist".

And it's you ignoring us.
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=83465.msg659019#msg659019

[hamdani yusuf]

(There is Only One Planet Earth, & No Plan B)

A few days ago was Sagan's day, so here's one of his quote.

„If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space.“ —  Carl Sagan, Contact

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1115888-carl-sagan-if-we-are-alone-in-the-universe-it-sure-seems-lik/

Do you think that human consciousness should cease to exist when the earth perish?
Can't we learn something from Thor: Ragnarok?

[alancalverd]

It would be no great loss to the universe. All we have achieved so far is to urinate on the moon and destroy a lot of life on earth.

[hamdani yusuf]

 

It would be no great loss to the universe.

you mean universe besides humans. For humans, their own existence is the most important.

[Zer0]

I've developed a strong disliking, almost Hatred for Super Hero Characters.

I Believe They have Misled Us.

They fight the Wrong evil in the Wrong place.

Spidey never takes a moment yo water someone's plants while whizzing off of their balcony.

Batty is a Vigilante who wants to do it all alone, whereas he could train officers & cops & provide them designer weapons & fund the Police Department.

Suppey is a bloke joke who wears his underpants inside out.

Hulky should help churn those hydro electric magnets so that we could have more efficient Electricity.

Irony is simply ironic, needs medications.

Mr Amerika & Woomaan!
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Thor...a Demigod...is clearly Dead.

We create them, We watch them, We cheer them on...they are fictional, world problems aren't.

Ps - Consciousness is a Gift to the Universe, it cannot be Lost at any cost.
(But the same cannot be said for human consciousness.)

[alancalverd]

It would be no great loss to the universe.

you mean universe besides humans. For humans, their own existence is the most important.

People die. Some of them were important before their death, none afterwards. I try to avoid death because I enjoy life, but when it happens, I'll just be recycled with all the other organic waste.