2006-08-11 06:01:55 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
People say that overpopulation is not occurring because everyone can fit into an area the size of Texas. That is the stupidest argument ever. Not only could people not stand the crowding, lack of privacy, lack of nature, and lack of silence in such an environment, but humans could not even survive at that density. Why? Because of food. A single large city requires a vast amount of farmland and grazing land to feed, which is many, many times larger than the city itself. A city could never survive on it's own, without that land, and there is a limited amount of land with good soil in the first place. When you walk out into the environment, are there animals packed shoulder-to-shoulder? NO, because animals have RANGES, in which there food grows.
People that supposedly oppose overpopulation often act in such a way that excacerbates the overpopulation problem. Why? Because they do not make any offspring. Opposition to overpopulation results from good character, and good character is a genetic trait. Thus, the people that oppose overpopulation should produce many offspring. Otherwise, it is the quasi-theocratic people (many of them anti-abortionists) that support overpopulation that make the most offspring, and their offspring have the genes of bad character that cause them to support overpopulation, such that there is a positive feedback which makes the problem increasingly worse.
The solution? Justice. Take all of the people that oppose population control, including those that oppose abortion, and do to them as they do to the future- pack them into tight spaces and starve them to death. That alone would drasticly cut the population, and it would also prevent overpopulation from occurring again in the future, because the people that remain support population control.
2006-08-11 13:11:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I define over-population by if there are enough resources to support the current size of the human population. By that definition, the answer is yes. And what should be done about it? Nature will seriously take care of it. Populations naturally exhibit slow and then exponential growth where at some point, some event (be it natural or man-made) will cause the population to crash.
2006-08-11 15:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by A D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that's a myth. You can fit the entire over 6 and half billion population of human beings on this planet and fit them all in the state of Texas. The population density throughout the entire state of Texas would be roughly equal that of New York City, and the entire rest of the world would be humanless. Overpopulation is a myth.
2006-08-11 13:06:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the world is overpopulated and unfortunately its in the poorest sections of the globe. There's nothing we can do about it, they won't use the pill or any other precaution, Deceases like aids, war, famine etc will take care of the overpopulation. The sad thing is that we have to feed the children while the parents procreating like rabbits, which boggles the mind, considering that a civilized woman suffering through famine would not get her period and wouldn't be able to reproduce.
2006-08-11 13:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think that the world is over-populated. While others think that it is not, for the whole world can fit into Texas, mass does not matter, for what matters is the available resources that are being depleted in a stable rate.
2006-08-11 15:10:42 · answer #5 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 50 years, we'll be at around 10 billion souls, way too many for the earth to sustain. Fossil fuels will be zero, coal zero, other natural resources...zero. An increasing number of animals will be extinct. The majority of the pop. will be in third world countries and everyone will be fighting over the few natural resources left.
The solution , unfortunately, is one of the 4 horsemen of apacolypse will be making his appearance, some cataclysmic event will reduce our numbers to more around 3 billion....something that's sustainable....
2006-08-12 04:33:37 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do think the world is over populated. I dont think anything should be done about it, mother nature can usually fix these problems such as viruses that kill millions.
2006-08-11 13:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by bloodystu_2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the world is over-populated. I think the space we live in is mis-managed. Natural resources are abused. And governments don't provide enough education for family planning.
2006-08-15 09:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by endrshadow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over populated, definitely. What should we do? Nothing. Enough people are killing each other these days that we won't have to thin the herd.
What thinning isn't taken care of by violence and starvation, stupidity takes care of.
2006-08-12 01:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think some areas are overpopulated like the bay area all these people stared coming here and now we have lots of more cops violence robberies etc than we used to i cant even go shopping now unless i go to really expensive stores that regular people cant afford that the only place that isnt overpopulated
2006-08-11 13:08:08 · answer #10 · answered by da_dragon336@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋