How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

then the answer would be obvious. restrict the access to birth
control items. man being man, will not give up the activities that
produce children (most of the time) so the result will be increase in
children.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
>
> There's a simpler explanation for declining birth rates: Parts of
> pregnancy are a real drag, childbirth is excruciatingly painful,
and
> children are time consuming and expensive (although unbelievably
> wonderful). This, combined with practical access to birth control,
means
> women only have a few children, on average. There is no reason to
expect
> any of this will change with space colonization, so generating
enough
> population growth to fill the solar system (much less the galaxy)
with
> humanity may be difficult.
>
> I notice that not a single woman on this list has responded by
saying she
> would be inclined to increase the number of children she would have
if she
> lived in a space colony.
>
> At 12:02 PM 5/23/2006, you wrote:
> >On 5/23/06, panamabob@...
> > wrote:
> > > hmmm...isn't that what many claim to be the problem with the
welfare roles?
> >(...)
> >
> >Well, some economists (like Hans-Hermann Hoppe) blame welfare for
the
> >declining birth rates. In old times, when there was *no* welfare at
> >all, children were seen as a kind of "retirement plan": after you
get
> >old and beyond productive age, you would have no appreciable
income,
> >but your children would take care of you anyway. After
> >government-sponsored retirement was invented, though, it seemed
less