anyone worried about over population yet?

Question

too many people not enough resources - its a problem now, but no one wants to talk about it

Answer 1

You are absolutely right. Lack of information, lack of education, cultural taboos, etc. make the situation even more serious. If we can't feed ourselves, we won't have to worry about making a living, going to war or terrorists.

Answer 2

Interestingly enough, there are a variety of opinions on the issue.

If population density is used as the criterion, then Bermuda and Monaco would be crisis zones, while Nigeria and Ethiopia should be paradise. Other factors, like population growth rate, also provide metrics riddled with inconsistencies. Yes, there are places where people lack resources and go hungry, but eliminating neighbors is not the solution to the condition of poverty. If we are worried about those who go hungry, let us recognize that the hungry are suffering from poverty, not from overpopulation.

Now that I've begun to research the issue a little, I don't really know where I stand. It is not a simple question.

I hope these thoughts and links help.

Answer 3

People have been talking about overpopulation since the '60s when I was in high school, and probably before that. Initiatives have been undertaken to curtail population growth rates in China, Japan, and third world nations, not to mention the US. The problem is, you're talking about curtailing sex, and ya just can't win. If a law were passed, some world wide law, limiting the number of children a couple could have, how would you enforce it? Hell, they couldn't enforce Prohibition here in America during the '20s, and they've never been able to make much of a dent in prostitution. If you'd like to go down in history with the likes of Salk and Edison and Einstein, figure out a practical way to end population growth. No body's come with one yet.

Answer 4

no one?

where have you been all this time? do the research, there's been conversation, topic, government planning (of course but nothing works) many more things that have been going on about the bust of population since well into the 50s.

we have the resources, look around.

just it's a game, if it doesn't profit it doesn't get established. if someone can't get votes because of it, no one makes it happen. if it costs more to keep it going then people write to their congressman and have it stopped.

so on.

example. where i lived there was recycling started. sure everyone took part. then a truck would come in sorting out the goodies for recycling then the truck would leave and go to the recycling center.

so we thought. some were talking that they seen the truck go right into the dump. (no recycling going on there, we knew that) i even followed the truck one day, right there it went into the dump, i went in to just turn around (the long way around :D ) and wa-lah! there was the 'recycling' truck dumping everything into one pile into a even bigger pile of 'crap'... nothing there to recycle it was just a pile of decomposing trash.

i drove around to see if i was making an error in judgement.. i couldn't see anywhere.. where'd there be something to take it later and you know, compress the metals and glasses for transport to a center.. nadda.

i just let it go figuring i didn't know what i was seeing.. and the others were getting upset for no reason.

months later it was mentioned in the local paper... recycling conspiracy, tax dollars in the dump.

so there ya have it.

i'm sure by now that's been fixed but if it happened there it's happening elsewhere.

and not just with recycling but aid, funding, medicine, the corp. so on.

i like to think of it as growing pains but... i don't know any more.

don't worry mother nature has her way of 'taking care of the problems'

from time to time as we see.

Answer 5

according to projections, population is actually set to peak at around 12 million in the year 2050 or so. While the exact year and number are somewhat conjectural, the underlying reason is pretty solid, which is that affluent and educated people have many fewer kids, so once the people of the earth reach a certain level of prosperity, the problem will then become keeping population levels up.

Answer 6

Nope.

I have insider information that will blow your mind.

In fact, all these wars on terror are NOT in the name of national security or oil.... it's just that George Bush in his wisdom decided that there are too many people on this rock, so he hired a few Muslim dudes to fly a plane into the WTC so we could go to war with every country with a Muslim in it. The plan is working well so far and I can say the population is definitely under 'control'

And yeah in case you were wondering George Bush *did* cause Katrina but not because he hates black people. He just wanted to kill off blues and jazz.

Answer 7

The subject is too touchy. In the US, we value freedom over everything and so to suggest that we find a way to control the size of the population, would be taking a freedom away.

Answer 8

No, I'm not worried about this, just as I'm not worried about "global warming," which is yet another myth.

I urge people to be fruitful and multiply the Earth, and to drirve the vehicle of their choice (according to Freedom of Choice that liberals cherish) even if it happens to be an SUV.

Just have large families, please, there's PLENTY of room!

Answer 9

Zero population growth is a good idea. I had two babies to replace me and the previous husband. China is in a big mess..

Answer 10

Not much really. If/when we really do start running out of resources, war will correct the problem.