Overpopulation In Dan Brown's Inferno

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Inferno, the latest film adaptation of Dan Brown 's novel of the same name, released not too long ago in cinemas and it brought to light some very interesting ideas. Brown touches on the taboo that we are all familiar with yet never seem to fully understand. It 's overpopulation. Quite simply put, it will destroy us if we let it - this is widely accepted. Brown 's solution matches his unhealthy obsession of Christian history; Brown 's solution to overpopulation posed through the antagonist 's evil plot, as if he the hero were afraid of the responsibility of dealing with the crisis, is a plague. Let that sink in, one of the most influential writers of our time 's published solution is to let loose a plague upon the Earth. He is not the only one in fault, it 's honestly quite shocking but countless before him have envisioned these broad and easy solutions to a far more complex problem; Brown 's save-the-world plague is a tactical nuke mosquito repellent – they 're all missing the point …show more content…
Yet, we must be intelligent, keeping out heads about us when we agree on what 's right and what is simply ethically wrong. Furthering on from this, the first step in our solution to human overpopulation is to help others in keeping their heads about them. This means education. Education in overpopulation. Education in technologies such as birth control, voluntary abortions and voluntary sterilizations. This first measure step will help in bringing about change, through a positive influence of education in our place in world and the human population. We can lessen the number of unwanted children (In 2001, 49% of pregnancies in the United States were unintended, that 's around 80 million),[4][5] and children born into families simply to provide; whilst we increase the number of children born into educated families in which the children are supported and then educated

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