I have a shelter in the last days

Chapter 320 Population Issues
"Through my speech, I believe everyone can see that the most important problem we are facing now is actually the 'population problem', so I suggest that before discussing whether to stay in the Kelvin galaxy, we need to solve the problem of population first." .”

After Cai Yangfan finished speaking, he sat back on his seat.Almost all the participants were shocked by his speech, and the audience became extremely quiet again.But soon bursts of whispering voices came from all over the conference room, and almost everyone called up their personal digital terminals based on their positions and industries and began to try to analyze the impact of population issues.

Soon, the Fleet Staff was the first to draw conclusions.Chief of Staff Mu En broke the status quo of no one speaking and said: "Thanks to Cai Yangfan, the leader of the scientific research team, for his analysis and speech. We have calculated just now. From the perspective of fleet management, it is true that the population problem will lead to various positions in about 150 years. serious job vacancies.”

"Happily, we were reminded today that we still have 150 years to make up. Next we will prioritize solutions to population problems."

The next person to speak was Bai Xuecheng, the biology leader of the scientific research group. He followed Cai Yangfan's example and sent a plan that had obviously been prepared for a long time to the big screen in front of everyone and said.

"Because after learning about this issue, we realized that the population problem may affect our branch of human civilization, so after discussion we proposed a population supplement plan, let's take it as a throwing away. I hope that friends from other industries can learn from it. Own professional departures help us refine the program."

"First of all, we originally planned to stay in the Kelvin galaxy for 50 years. In fact, no matter whether we leave or stay in the 50 years, of course there are still 45 years left, which is enough for us to complete the cultivation of a new generation of population."

"Of course, for the new generation of population I want to talk about, it is definitely not enough to rely on the existing 20 people to reproduce naturally. Even if we reproduce like animals throughout the year, the population will not increase too much."

The other people in the venue laughed when they heard this, and Bai Xuecheng continued.

"And in the resource compartment of the original No. 5000 keel compartment, there are [-] million human gene pools refrigerated. We can use these gene pools to breed babies in large quantities with artificial womb technology!"

"Considering that if one or several children are raised by two people according to the traditional family raising method in the past, adults need to devote a lot of energy to the children's life and study after work. This kind of inefficient and uncontrollable reproduction And the way of cultivating the population is obviously no longer suitable for our current situation of extremely high productivity, and the human breeding model needs to be updated."

"Integrating various factors, we propose a plan that we named the 'social support system' to resolve this problem. Simply put, all newborns are raised by the whole society, and individual families no longer bear the responsibility. Responsibility for raising offspring. The newborns mentioned here are not only those born in artificial wombs but also those born in individual families. to live and grow together.”

"Sorry, I have to interrupt. I would like to ask Professor Bai, do you mean that the newborns of individual families will not live with their parents after birth, but will be raised collectively by the entire reproductive system?"

At this time, a lady suddenly interrupted Bai Xuecheng's speech and asked, she was a high-level management of the spaceship living area.

"Yes, if the newborns of individual families are still raised by their parents, it is easy to have various uncertainties in the growth process, because not every parent is an education expert, although they may be the ones who love the child the most , but it does not necessarily give them the best education and growth conditions. At the same time, there is bound to be a social gap between children raised by individual families and children raised by the social support system. Children from individual families are bound to Being able to obtain more resources from parents or even relatives and friends is against social fairness, and will inevitably lead to social confrontation between the two in the long run, which is not conducive to the long-term development of our human civilization..."

The lady couldn't help interrupting Bai Xuecheng again when she heard this.

"In other words, this plan will deprive us of the right to form a family and enjoy family affection?!"

Her voice suddenly rose, and she seemed extremely excited.

"It doesn't deprive everyone of the right to form a family and enjoy family affection. Everyone can still legally marry and even have children. They can also enjoy mutual love, friendship and family affection..." Bai Xuecheng continued to explain.

"If you don't even allow your own children to be raised, what's the point of family affection? Reproduction and raising offspring is the instinct of every creature. Is the plan proposed by the research institute that violates biological instinct too cold-blooded and ruthless? We all know that the greatest relationship between man and machine The biggest difference is that human beings have various emotions, which bring rich culture and motivation to us humans. If we deprive some of these emotions, will it have an impact on the entire social system? Will it cause unpredictable development of human beings in the future? Consequences? Even seriously, does it violate human nature?" The lady did not intend to let Bai Xuecheng pass the test in a few words, and she raised the most unacceptable question to this plan from her own perspective.

Bai Xuecheng didn't get angry when she was questioned like this. As a scientist, he proposed such a plan in the hope of getting feedback from all parties to improve it.So he continued to explain calmly: "First of all, we just abandoned the way individual families bear children, not depriving everyone of their right to bear children. The lady just said is right, reproduction and raising offspring are indeed biological instincts , but it is not necessary for biological parents to raise their offspring. Many creatures are socially raised, such as ants, bees, and even some apes. A relatively efficient method was chosen in the early natural environment. At that time, it was obvious that the current method was not enough to meet the development of human civilization, especially our ethnic group with only 20 people left!"

"Secondly, although it is not romantic for me to say this, all the emotions of our human beings are the thinking changes caused by hormones in the body acting on the brain. If one day human technology reaches a high enough level, we can even control ourselves to obtain various Emotional experience. Of course, we have not deprived people of all their emotions. People can still choose to love their lover or a special offspring. In fact, the behavior of individual families raising offspring has been around for more than 110 years and nearly 120 years. It has been proved that it is no longer suitable for us, and the new population is only more than 4000, doesn't it explain the problem?"

(End of this chapter)