Over-Population

Hooray, my first full-length rant. good to finally get something proper on here, today i shall have a little chat about over-population.

Over Population. no one seems to want to talk about it. we all focus on "more important" issues, such as the fuel shortage, money, education, health care, politics. look at it this way, all the things that make over-population worse, are what are most important to us. we skip over this subject whenever we can, purely because to deal with it, we would have to stop trying to make ourselves live as long as possible. our morals and our senses of self-preservation continually cloud our thoughts on this issue, when, if ever, will we start to think seriously about how to stop ourselves from multiplying out of existence?
the main affect of over-population is lack of recourse's. apparently right now, if we were to convert every acre of land on this planet into farmland (and this is crops, not animals) then we would still not have enough to feed every human properly. and the problem is it keeps getting worse. people will point out that birth rates are going down, that's only in some countries, namely, the 1st world countries. and even then, in these countries, out health care continually improves, keeping older generations alive for longer. if we think seriously about this, then all this will cause is pensioners to become a much greater weight on the governments shoulders, and pockets. and then we have the problem of 3rd world countries, they do not have the health care to allow people to grow old. But they have very high birth rates, this is naturally in order to counter-act high in fact mortality rates. but here's the problem, thanks to charities and some large companies in the west, the medical treatments in these countries have increased, meaning mortality rates are dropping, however, the birth rates are not. this is going to have the same affects on these countries as they did on Britain in the industrial revolution, increasing the population by nearly 3 times (somebody check that, it's been a while since i took history).
my suggestion would be for governments to stop investing so much money into health care and medical research, and put it into space exploration. the chance of colonising another planet is a realistic life-line here, but if we don't put the time and money into this that we should be, then it's just a ghost of a life line, more of a hope than a reality. some more solutions, these are by the way, the more moralistic values by the way, is to re-introduce the death sentence, repeal a good deal of health and safety laws, and possibly most of all, get rid of weapons of mass destruction, which in effect, would cause more wars, as the threat of total annihilation is gone. don't believe me about that being the morally superior solution (or at least postponement)? well here's the only other way i can see, the one that actually seems to happen more, and is more of a solution than a postponement. Capitalism. plain and simple. you make it, you sell it, no health care for free. if it saves lives, then that should just make it more expensive, because let's face it, if it's going to save your life, your going to be willing to spend more money on it. suck the money out of everyone, until only the rich survive. it's a bitch. it's what happens. either stop it from happening, or deal with it. because over-population is just one of many problems.