Last week the USSU hosted Green Yourself Week in order to create awareness on environmental issues society is currently facing.

KEVIN MENZ
Associate News Editor

In a somewhat outrageous proposal preceded by a rather obvious disclaimer that the proposition team might not actually agree with the side they are arguing, the officials argued that in order to fight overpopulation in India, an individual who wants to have a child will need to buy a birthing share.

Their proposal centred on the idea that poor people do not have the resources to satisfactorily take care of children. Without children, poor people will be able to move themselves out of poverty, be rich and have rich children with their new child shares. The economic benefits are immense!

They also noted that it is inevitable that some people will have children without possessing the proper birthing shares. However, they stated that orphanages would be started for these children.

The opposition argued that the proposal is an obvious infringement on basic human rights, that the proposed orphanages risk increases in child labour and child trafficking and that laws restricting population growth have unforeseen consequences — like the male-dominated population in China because of their one-child policy.

Finally, the opposition proposed that the best way to slow population increase is to improve wealth and education. Of course, this is evidenced by the fact that wealthy and well-educated countries like Canada have some of the slowest growing populations in the world.