2006-10-06 16:32:11 · 13 answers · asked by sandman 1 in Environment
Yes, I think Earthlings can outgrow Earth's resources. Certain things are renewable or available (as in water), but who is to say if it will remain drinkable? And if you think about it, there's a very fine balance to the air's make up - a slight shift and we'll be in deep trouble.
Famine already strikes 1000s (probably millions) per year; species go extinct daily - it may take a good long while (I hope so, as I don't want to be around) for this to occur. Reminds me of the part in Fantasia where the dinosaurs had to migrate, looking for food and fresh water, but found none and died along the way. You mess with the system (food chain) and it's going to have an affect all the way down the line. Black footed ferrets almost died off because prairie dogs were just about exterminated, their food source. We're all connected.
2006-10-06 16:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Isthisnametaken2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've used the wrong tense. Humanity has already outgrown the planet. The small population countries just refuse to recognize that all the starvation they see on Save the Children is real and a result of the affluent countries refusing to recognize the problem and share the resources.
2006-10-06 16:42:48 · answer #2 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without an intervening catastrophe or migration, it is a mathematical certainty. Even at the rate mankind have been killing each other off, the population of the Earth has shown geometric growth. Sadly, learning how to stop the slaughter will only hasten the crisis. I do think that the starvation end is millenia away.
2006-10-06 17:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's highly impossible since america itself can support the world for a life time by its self even if the world were 3x larger then it's average size with 3x more people on it.And with all these abortions on it there's a slim chance of us outgrowing earths population!
2006-10-06 16:35:49 · answer #4 · answered by Naskomenia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're on the verge of it now. There's 1 or 2 billion people on earth who live on 2 dollars a day.
2006-10-06 20:53:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
iT'S HAPPENING NOW. Most of the middle east countries woill began ot really feel the efects of their depleted oil reserves wiht in the next 20 years, followed by south america, africa, and the ocean/sea sites.
As In India, china, Africa, and the rest of the third world begans to demand and purchase enegery gulping homes, cars, ect and to use up their natuiral resources of minerals, land, seas, lakes,a nd rivers you will see a closed socieites develop world wide to protect what they have for their own countries. we are already out growing our natural resources which is why america buys elsewhere to save our own for later.
2006-10-06 16:43:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is impossible. It's just a matter of time before we use up all our natural resources. Hopefully, not in my lifetime.
2006-10-06 16:49:02 · answer #7 · answered by Papa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, it's possible. A good example is coal and oil. It took millions of years for these to form, but we are using them so fast that they will be exhausted soon unless we find alternate fuels.
2006-10-06 16:46:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
impossible... if the population is too large to support itself based on the planet's resources people will simply die off untill an equalibrium is reached.
2006-10-06 22:16:19 · answer #9 · answered by Brooks B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope so. That would imply that we've found a way to live on other planets, within the asteroid belt, or have sustainable space habitats. Cool beans!
2006-10-06 16:36:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋