StopAtTwo

The goal of StopAtTwo is to ensure that every human knows the following facts of nature:

  • Any group that averages more than two children, will cause children to die. This defines your role as a member of a country, religion and village. The beliefs and laws of any group must ensure an average above two cannot happen.
  • In order to ensure that you and your relatives do not contribute to a rising population, you must not have more than two children. You must not have another child if that will create more than four grandchildren for your parents, and you must not have another if that would create more than eight great grandchildren for your grandparents. This is the TwoFourEight algorithm.
  • Every country and the planet is currently overpopulated with humans because we are consuming resources, that are essential to providing for our numbers, faster than those resources can renew. Many countries are currently suffering the effects of overpopulation, which means that the birth of additional humans will cause the death of children. We must reduce our numbers by doing at least a OneTwoFour limit, until we are no longer overpopulated.

As long as these facts are not common knowledge, we have a population problem.

We must teach these concepts in school, and parents must teach these concepts as basic morals, just like parents teach "don't hurt others", "don't litter" and "don't steal".

See the attached curriculum intended for students aged 10 and above.

StopAtTwo is a voluntary organization dedicated to spreading the knowledge. Please see contribute.

To find the "average number of children" ask all adults right before they die, how many children they created and survived, and average that number. Every child will be counted twice, once by the mother and once by the father. This number is very similar to the Total Fertility Rate

StopAtTwo has created the phrase "average number of children" because there are no other definitions or phrases that are adequate. Demographers have several different definitions to measure the birth rate more precicely, but none are quite what is needed.

  • Total Fertility Rate while this is nearly the correct definition, it is not something that most people are going to relate to. Demographers created it in order to be able to do their work.
  • Birth rate is used by demographers for measuring births per 1000 people, so this is not the right phrase.
  • Average number of children per person can be interpreted to mean that we sum the total number of people and divide by the number of children which is clearly not right.

StopAtTwo defines people as being either children, or adults. To calculate the average number of children, we ask each adult before they die how many children they created and average that number. If we asked every human, not just adults, how many children they created, then the average would be two. At the population limit the average number of children created by all people regardless of their age when they die, must be two.

This means that when someone creates more than two, others must have fewer than two, and if an insufficient number of others do not have fewer than two, nature must kill people before they have a chance to create a child. That means children.

OneTwoFour refers to no more than one child, no more than two grandchildren for your parents, and no more than four great grandchildren for your grandparents.

Our common knowledge generally includes the fact that murder is wrong. It includes the fact that the Earth is a big sphere. The answer to 3 times 4 is common knowledge.

It should be as difficult to find someone that believes the world is shaped like a pancake as it is to find someone that will tell you that we can make as many babies as we want, as if we can invent infinite food.