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If they're viable samples, it would be probably be possible as soon as it's people can have their contemporary eggs and sperm used in a fully artificial gestation process.
I wasn't talking at all about overpopulation because it wasn't directly related to your comment about bullying. I don't think we have an overpopulation problem so much as a resource distribution problem and lack of political will among those with power to actually change our systems into something less cruel to ourselves and the planet. We produce far more than we need to in our current system for the population we have, but our resource distribution system is directed by the whims of market forces and profit instead of community need.
Plus, I tend to automatically reject the assumption we're overpopulated because bringing it up gives off an implication that it needs to be intentionally resolved, and that gets into really horrific territory really quickly.
On top of that, nobody even knows what the human carrying capacity of the planet even is; there's zero scientific consensus on total human capacity or how to even measure it. It's a non-starter for me, and I just do not think it's an issue worth worrying about, but I am deeply concerned with how quick people are to blame everything on overpopulation as the cause of shortages when we haven't really tried a different approach.
Edit: I fixed the last sentence to make sense.