If the world is over population,what will happen to us?

Answer 1

The overpopulation scare started in the 1970's with alarmists claiming that within 20-25 years the entire planet would be under a complete epidemic of starvation and disease. Now mind you these problems do exist in the world to some degree, but the overpopulation disaster has never materialized the way the so called experts claimed it would. If anything the world is more or less thriving. Many of the nations with rapidly expanding populations of the last quarter century are some of the fastest growing economies in the world, China and India to name a couple. Areas in Africa have rising popluations but are hampered by AIDs, Malaria, and infrastructure. The population is the least of their problems.

Countries in Western Europe are trying economic benefits to get its people to have babies more often because the population is decreasing, not the other way around.

The alarmists of the 70's that never saw their theories come to fruition continue today bellowing the same banal arguments, even though there is not one shed of credible evidence to indicate we have an overpopulation problem in the world.

I hope that helps provide a differing opinion than what you'll learn about in most educational facilities.

Answer 2

Not much will happen. However, if there are WAY too many people on Earth, humans would use up land and food, causing famines. Some people would die of starvation, but that would, in a way, be good because the population would go down back to normal. When it gets back to normal, the population would once again rise and repeat all over again. This cycle could happen over and over again until the entire species eventually becomes extinct.

Answer 3

While the answers that everyone gave you are good, look up the concept of Carrying Capacity. The worlds population is approximately 6 billion right now. Some scientists believe that the earth can accommodate up to 10 million at most - at the current rate of resource consumption. Solar energy, biofuels, and other alternatives and less conspicuous consumption as well as eating FAR LESS meat will allow the earth to carry maybe up to 20 billion people.

Answer 4

Your witnessing what will happen to us if we overpopulate the planet. We are destroying beautiful land to build more homes and business because with more people comes more demand. We are ruining our planet. Thats why there should never be cures for diseases. People will not stop reproducing at a rapid pace and now kids are even having kids so the only way to have some kind of population control is with things like cancer and aids. Natural disasters don't really kill enough people off. I hate to say things like this but it is true and once you get past hating me for being so blunt you will see that I am right.

Answer 5

Think of the world's resources as a pie. If you cut that pie into 4 pieces everyone is full and happpy. If each of the pairs of 2 produce 2 offspring the pie needs to be divided into 8 pieces. With the death rate at a lower level than the birth rate the pie pieces get subsequently smaller,until the sliices are no longer large enough to sustain a healthy culture. Existance is not life.
The human race ;at its present growth rate; is on course to not only destroy its own quality of life but to also push more wildlife from its natural range into extinction.

Answer 6

all animal and palnt species exhibit what is called a J curve population curve, a species will continue to grow inpopulation until its environment can no longer support the species from wahtever rason, EG no more food, no more room whatever, wehnt his happens the species reaches a peak, the top of the J and then falls drastically, nearly back to zero, a good example of this are certain deer and wolf populations, when deer become too abundant wolves have easy prey for food and eat them unitl they deplete the popultion and run out of food and then they die and since their predators no longer are eating them the deer population grow again

Answer 7

nature has its own feedback system. The same thing that happens to all the deer running around, less resources means more competition and higher prices- people who cannot acquire resources will starve/die of disease/ die of some kind of war fallout and the population will drop to a point below critical mass.

Answer 8

Less resources to share.
More people will starve.
May be we will kill each other until a new balance is reached.
May be we will be forced to colonize Space.

Answer 9

more starvation meaning there would be more homeless people on the streets. less resources to suit out needs leading the enviornment to be destroyed.

Answer 10

Don't worry about it. The earth will balance things. She will kill us off to a point where we aren't a problem any more.