Is the world over-populated?

Question

I've done a lot of resaerch and Ifound out that there are over 80 million people just in America alone! If it's like this now, what will it be like in 50 years? Are we over populating the world? And how can we stop it?

Answer 1

Try 300 million in the US - over 30 million in Los Angeles.

Not over populated yet. Nature will take care of it. Run out of water, food, deseases, etc. will reduce populations. Fly over the US and other places and there is a lot a land. It is the water I am worried about.

Answer 2

NO the world is not over populated. It seems to be when you go to areas like London, Los Angeles, New York, New York places like that. If the government would not limit areas of the land, the people could move out a bit from city life and live in the country.

In the 20th century alone, there were more people in the world then the first 19 centuries put together.

War is started for reasons you stated, due to over population of people. War is the fastest way to get rid of thousands of people. Its not right, but thats one reason the world has war.

Nobody can tell you what it will be like in 50 years, you can't predict the future, only God can. In 50 years we all might be in the world walking and talking with Jesus, during His 1000 year reign that is to come. Or in 50 years, the world will be trying to survive from the nuclear fallout (destruction) that was caused by Iran, North Korea, and countries that retaliated against them.

If the world was over populated.. every square inch of the land would have someone living on it. In Canada alone they only have 30 million people. Their land mass is much bigger than the United States. California has six million more people then all the Provinces of Canada put together.

Now if your question would have been limited to city names like I mentioned above, yes it is over populated. You must not have done a lot of road traveling across the United States. You would have seen there are lots of open land from west to east coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border.

Answer 3

Well it's hard to say..For one thing people are dying too, which makes room for the people that are being born. As far as populations goes it's more of a concentrated issue than anything else. There is so much open land left in America, no homes, no towns..nothing...But try to take three steps in New York City without bumping into fifty people in one step. We ought to branch out...and then maybe we won't feel so crowded..

Answer 4

if it gets to be too populated I can assure you that the government will take over, people will move to more remote places, thinning out the population density. So it will not be a problem, in my opinion, for another 100-200 years at the rate we are going

Answer 5

You've done a lot of research, huh? You might want to work on your research skills, given that you missed the USA population by over 200 million.

Answer 6

Its not over populated. Did you know that the whole world can fit in the state of texas and have 5 square feet to themselves.

Answer 7

Theres overpopulation in the world in some parts, in 50 years the population would be larger, and it simply can't be stoped because we can't tell them to stop having intercourse.

Answer 8

Where did you find your numbers? From a 1950's book? There's at least 280 million people in the USA alone.
What if we are overpopulating the world? We can't stop it. What's your point?

Answer 9

actually its close to 300 million people in america alone...

Answer 10

If you think that is bad check out this news article from Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060625/ap_on_re_us/300_million_milestone;_ylt=AiA41jdUmnvG4.8m25Hj6QEDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-

It is only going to get worse unless we all make conscious decisions about our planet