The coyote just helped control the population year round

JGT · 2018-11-01T11:43:47.671Z

I advocate population control of wildlife all the time. But I was thinking, Does it make me a hypocrite because the one population I (and no one else really) advocates for is controlling the human population? We are overpopulating and pissing through resources like its our first night in vegas after winning the powerball.

there is no way the govt can regulate it in a good way. I personally think the government reaches too far as it is. This is much more of a cultural issue. As a culture you would have to make this a bigger part of your beliefs. And the welfare system does not help, I mean you are subsidizing people who have already proven they either don't care to have a job or have fallen into hard times and just can't get out. And for the latter, having more kids is not any way to bring yourself and your family up out of poverty.

I don't have any statistics but I would almost guarantee that with increased household income family size would decrease. I don't see many 4,5 and 6 child families over in the "million dollar lot" section of town, but go over to the Section 8 and government housing and see how many children some people have. I know, I grew up around it, and I have family in it.

As a culture we need to see how selfish it is to have 5 kids and realize that we are failing our descendants by not controlling ourselves.

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As a hunter and a human I've noticed

Nov 1, 2018, 8:52 AM

Hunting to control a population is not nearly as effective as when nature decides to control a population. Take deer as an example. My favorite game to hunt.

in the 80's I hunted all the time. I'd kill 5 deer a year. Our club killed 120-150 deer each year. Deer were everywhere. We slaughtered them for over a decade, telling ourselves we were doing what's best to control an obvious overpopulation of deer. We were killing 100lb 8-point bucks. Deer were very small in the lowcountry. Less deer in the upstate and they were bigger and healthier. ANYWAY, no matter the hunting pressure we could apply, there were more and more deer, and smaller and less healthy deer, each year.

Then enter the coyote. When they started appearing the deer nearly vanished. Within 5-8 years we went from more deer than you could shoot, to hardly any. Now the population has rebounded a little bit, and the deer are MUCH larger, and healthier. The coyote did what a million hunters in SC could never do.

As for humans, nature will take care of us some day. Ebola will go airborne. Flu pandemic. Something will happen that we can't control of fix and we will be culled. It won't be by an animal, but by some type of bacteria or virus. PROMISE.

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As a Hunter

Are you suggesting we should control the human population?

Re: Are you suggesting we should control the human population?

We have that now, and those are both personal choices.

Oh I definitely dont have a solution

Aside from prisoners and people who voluntarily have abortio

I'd like to see a tax credit for NOT having children.***

Population growth in developed countries is shrinking

Actually, it's just as likely due to falling sperm counts.

Because now men would rather

Thats my plan***

Source?***

Here. Pick one.

I understand that

Also realize

We reached peak child a few years ago. Population growth is

I've done all I can do.

As a hunter and a human I've noticed

Completely disagree. We are as much a part of nature as any

We are far from natural if you

Re: As a Hunter

Re: As a Hunter

Ummm plenty of people advocate for population control.

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