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[pwood]

ban swimming pools and golf courses an the toilets can stay the same. The one percenters would then be criminals!

 

[conarb]

ban swimming pools and golf courses an the toilets can stay the same. The one percenters would then be criminals!

No, institute a one child per family policy like the Chinese and start depopulating the earth so there is enough water to go around.

Overpopulation is related to the issue of birth control; some nations, like the People's Republic of China, use strict measures to reduce birth rates. Religious and ideological opposition to birth control has been cited as a factor contributing to overpopulation and poverty. Some leaders and environmentalists (as well as business magnates such as Ted Turner) have suggested that there is an urgent need to strictly implement a China-like one-child policy globally by the United Nations, because this would help control and reduce population gradually.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation#cite_note-241



Indira Gandhi, late Prime Minister of India, implemented a forced sterilization programme in the 1970s. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilization, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant men were also believed to have been sterilized. This program is still remembered and criticized in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmes for decades.

Urban designer Michael E. Arth has proposed a "choice-based, marketable birth license plan" he calls "birth credits". Birth credits would allow any woman to have as many children as she wants, as long as she buys a license for any children beyond an average allotment that would result in zero population growth (ZPG). If that allotment was determined to be one child, for example, then the first child would be free, and the market would determine what the license fee for each additional child would cost. Extra credits would expire after a certain time, so these credits could not be hoarded by speculators. The actual cost of the credits would only be a fraction of the actual cost of having and raising a child, so the credits would serve more as a wake-up call to women who might otherwise produce children without seriously considering the long term consequences to themselves or society¹

We contractors have to put up a bond on larger projects to guarantee that we can complete the project, make anyone wanting a child put up a bond to assure that the care, feeding, and education of the child doesn't fall back on the taxpayers.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation

 

[Rio]

This all tie into AB32, the Greenhouse Emissions Reduction Act, where California is going to show the rest of the world how to live 'within our carbon footprint means'. This means it's necessary to make energy more expensive (think TDV and TOU metering on electric panels) so we use less of it rather than building new power plants with abundant and inexpensive natural gas.

If California had kept pace with water infrastructure improvements for the last 60 years we'd have plenty of it; there's been a change in philosophy from growing the pie to making the pie more expensive so people will consume less of it. Of course it hits the poor and middle class hardest but who cares about that?