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Unanswered Questions from the Alice-verse

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BenRG:

--- Quote from: improvnerd on 07 Jul 2015, 00:20 ---How is terrestrial population controlled?
- Rhythm method?
- Promotion of non-procreative sex acts?
- Occasional culls by Alice?
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- Cultural programming that makes having more than two or three children a taboo, leading to a stable or at least very slowly increasing population.
- A nanotechnological genophage that automatically induces sterility after a small number of successful gestations - imposed by the same powers behind the Blink.

improvnerd:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 07 Jul 2015, 01:12 ---- Cultural programming that makes having more than two or three children a taboo, leading to a stable or at least very slowly increasing population.

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That's a "why", not a "how". You still need a mechanism to limit family size to those two or three children.

I realize I left out abortion as a possibility. And abortions have traditionally been performed by witches...

Zebediah:
Traditionally in low-tech cultures population was controlled by poor sanitation and disease epidemics.

However, Alice seems to provide her people with some degree of health care which may include some kind of effective birth control.

retrosteve:

--- Quote from: improvnerd on 07 Jul 2015, 00:20 ---How is terrestrial population controlled?
- Rhythm method?
- Promotion of non-procreative sex acts?
- Occasional culls by Alice?

--- End quote ---

Farming grows food, but not infinite amounts of food. Adding more farm workers hits diminishing returns. Agro technology is already as good as Alice can help it be, and the farmers don't seem all that brilliant at improving it. The land will support a certain number of people and no more.

And that's what limits the population.

improvnerd:
So, famine?

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