How many of you readers believe there might be an over population problem?

Question

The planet Earth is only so big.
Roughly 8000 miles in Diameter, 200 million sq. mi. total surface area 60 M sq. mi. land. That is about 100 people / sq. mi. of land

I have seen very nice farm land eaten up by suburbia.

The more people there are the more competition for the Earths limited resources.

There are several times in the past that the planet showed that there was a limit to what it could produce and if this was exceded there would be dire consequences. 1 example id Easter island where the poplation eventually colapsed due to it exceding what the island could provide.
There are many other examples where over population and mismanagement of the natural resources caused desertification & population colapse or war.

Many vocal religious (anticontraception / antiabortion) believe there is more than enough space for all.
If you are one of these people please explain where the food will be grown when farm land becomes suburbia to house all the extra people.

I'd continue but ..

Answer 1

Where I live, I see nothing but trees and open fields. God has a purpose for each human being's existence, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 2

Population growth has and will continue to plateau. It will not nearly reach the levels originally predicted, largely because the levels were exaggerated for effect, and partly because the plateau effect is sudden and could not be predicted. We use only a very tiny percentage of the world's land mass. Obviously more room can be made through national planning boards which would inevitably be created if the issue became an. We are more resilient than some of the alarmists feel. Supply and demand also dictated that we will find a way to supply what the populations demand. There is more than enough land on which to produce, and technology will create the ability to fertilize barren soil if necessary. I have found personally that I find the means to satisfy my needs when I am put under pressure, and this is an anlogy for populations which are merely a fragmented organism. The population "problem," so to speak, is an invention of misanthropes, which is somehow supposed to make people feel guilt for being alive. Also ostensibly asked to persuade peoples not to procreate (which is laughibly unrealistic), or at least to fill them with adequate fear to satisfy the scientifically "more knowlegde" proclaimers' need for validation and some company in their misery. While populations do become problematic in nature, humanity has proven itself wildly self-regulatory in its habits, at least where an organized system of government is able to evolve unabated.

Answer 3

While it may seem the earth is 'overpopulated, this could not be farther from the truth. The fact is, 99% of the people are crammed into 1% of the land. Look at a population map; all the major cities and suburbs are slammed wall to wall with people.

There is plenty of empty space still available. If you don't believe it, take a drive from Los Angeles to San Fran and see the miles, upon miles, of remote land.

Drive through the country and you will see the exact same thing. There is so much open land, our population could quadruple and we'd still be fine. It seems 'over populated' because everyone conglomerates on the same areas.

Answer 4

You 'we're all gonna die' 'cause there's no food complainers constantly amaze me. Under all the pablum you spit out, you really would like to "eliminate" the competition. As the man who invented the internet said a few years back, "All earth's problems could be solved by eliminating 2/3 of earths population" [or something to
that effect, the quote is not exact, but is essentially accurate].
But he (and you) never seem to be at the front of the line to volunteer to be the first to go. I wonder why?

Stossel [ABC/20-20] covers that topic in his new book:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1898820&page=1

Answer 5

Well, the Bible says that the earth would give its produce, but the Bible hasn't given us the information about what God plans to do concerning all that.

Of course, not everyone will survive God's war (Revelation 16:16,17) But, then millions of dead ones will be restored to life (healthy not sci-fi gross), so yeah there will be lots of people.

Conjecture here: Maybe that is what some of the other planets are for??

Best to wait and find out. That is one of the things I am looking forward to learning.

Answer 6

"...I even have considered very surprising farm land eaten up by making use of suburbia..." i'm in user-friendly terms commenting in this line 'reason it is so real. We pass lower back to the place we used to farm & there is those extensive mansions throughout it & some fancy procuring plazas, that's loopy. yet, agriculture is asking up. even however Walmart & acquaintances save taking our land, farmers are actually able to produce greater on what land they have. there is lots of technologies available coming up techniques for farmers to advance greater on much less. On yet another observe....there is that this place referred to as Siberia, and besides the undeniable fact that that's particularly chilly, that's tremendously empty, so if we get desperate, we are able to place people there!

Answer 7

you've never been through colorado, the dakotas, wyoming, or montana, have you? every person on this earth could fit comfortably into the state of rhode island. we could all fit in the state of texas to the point of about an acre a person. overpopulation is nowhere near our current status.

di dyou know that every person on earth could drown in lake loch ness at the same time? that's not even the biggest lake in the world....

Answer 8

Totally agree. The earth is way over populated.

Answer 9

you have to remember that people are also dying as people are being born.....and you also have to realize that I'm sure that if an issue arises about food quantity (i.e. the entire world starving to death), technology can find the answer....mechanically synthesized food, here we come!

p.s. God says in the Bible that He'll never let the human race become extinct.

Answer 10

That's an interesting rant.......very true. At the rate we are destroying earth it will not be able to sustain itself much longer.

Here is an alarming link:
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop/index.html