which is worse overconsumption or overpopulation?

Question

environtmental degradation

Answer 1

That's like picking the worse of two devils.

But, I believe overconsumption can be controlled by price, overpopulation can't ... so I have to pick overpopulation as the worse.

Answer 2

they are both the same in a way, ... there is only a certain amount of produce we can create in a give time to feed X number of people . . . if we overpopulate it is esentialy the same as overconsumption in the long run . . . not enough food for the population to live.

but if i had to pick, . . . overpopulation would be worse, since they both lead to the same road, why not suffer while you atleast have space to call your own, . . .versus standing heal-toe to everyone in the world, dying from the same thing.

Answer 3

Overpopulation definately. Overconsumption is bad, but consider this. Overconsumption places demand on resources such as crops, timber, and other agriculture products. This is bad, but it certainly creates a need for better management and continues sustainability of those products. Overpopulation leads to urban sprawls in large cities. These cities expand into what use to be agriculture-based areas, and once they are paved over, those resources (timber, crops) will never be harvested from those areas again.

Answer 4

Overpopulation

Answer 5

What is overconsumption? More than consumption (by the living). No way. Study Econ. What is overpopulation? How many people die. Which is worse living or dieing?

Answer 6

Overconsumption actually solves overpopulation. Look at the birth rates in the western world especially Japan and Northern Europe, they arent even sustaining their population.

Overconsumption is far worse in my opinion. Population is easily controlled by natural factors such as land, game, and predators.

Answer 7

No, it fairly is not a worldwide problem. The Earth can handle plenty greater. the undertaking is distribution. to illustrate, Ethiopia could properly be overpopulated for what that piece of land can help. even nevertheless, Russia can help plenty greater people, as can the u . s . a .. I observed a learn that confirmed in case you place the finished inhabitants of the Earth right into a US type residential community in families of five, the section taken up may be the dimensions of Texas. of direction that could take a great sort of infrastructure and does no longer be useful, even nevertheless it shows our footprint so a good distance as inhabitants isn't that undesirable. yet another element that the persons afraid of inhabitants enhance do in contrast to is worldwide Warming. The lobbyist tout the type that ends the worldwide, because of the fact it rather is frightening and attracts people in. it fairly isn't any longer the only sort. because of the fact the Earth warms up, it certainly creates greater farm-able land world huge. The equator area could desire to suck, yet think of roughly maximum of Russia and Canada turning out to be farmland. a definite volume of worldwide warming certainly will enhance how plenty inhabitants the Earth can carry.

Answer 8

over population the rest follows anyway.


over popúlation and some related effects

in Mexico ,South America,Asia etc. the expanding
populations are consuming forrests for agriculture and habitat.
In the last 50 years world population has doubled a faster growth ever since we became homo sapian.
the effects on the environment are
,erosian,over pumping of carbon aquifiers(deep wells)
desertification,rising seas,land loss,deforrestation,watershort...
excess carbon emissions,mass extinction of species and global warming.

DEFORRESTATION if it continues ,is that we could end up looking like Mars.Without an atmosphere ,without water,without air,with out life

the forrests make most of the water that we can drink or use for plant growth(sweet water)
some is condensed from the sea but that reaches only the coastel aereas .
the bulk ,comes from the forests ,and the rivers come from the rainfall which comes from the trees ,
and the trees with precipitation,feed the rivers when it is not raining and keep them running all year round.

If we kill all the trees,we kill the rivers .we kill the rain. we kill us.
the trees also absorb the heat in the day and heat up the place in the night ,so they keep the temperature confertable to live in.

in the dessert the nights are freezing cold and during the days you burn up

CARBON MONOXIDE
the trees absorb carbon emisions ,which is poison to us and they produce oxygen which we need to breathe.

so in short the trees produce the air that we need to breathe.
they also produce wood which is usefull and a wide range of food such as fruits

deforestation must be stopped before desertification goes out of control and consumes the planet.

DESERTIFICATION
the sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.
two major desserts in northern china are growing together making one giant dessert and,causing dust storms so making thousands of people refugeese

the trees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun .

the planet is drying out at an alarming rate.

in the days of the dinasaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth ,and there were no desserts .
Count how many there are today,and all of them are as a result of mans actions.
the sahara used to be forrests
arabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times
Ghengas Kahn burned all the forrests here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.

Bad agricultural practises is turning vast teritories into desserts ,because of over grazing and the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers ,the surface aquifiers already having been depleted.
And the use of fertilisers and heavy machinery that compacts the ground which raises the salt in the soil.
Modern agriculture today is doing the same as ghengas kahn but in much bigger territories.

And because agricultural lands are lost, farmers are forced to cultivate highly erodable lands, to keep up with the growing demand for food.an extra 70 million people each year and this is increasing
the world population has doubled in the last 50 years the fasted increase ever since the first homo sapian.

EROSION
soil erosion is almost always as a result of human intervention.
the trees are cut down and these trees existed to provide a cover against the rays of the sun which now dries out the soil ,and the wind can than easily blow away the dust that is formed ,------this is wind erosian

because the trees are no longer there, whose roots bound the soil together ,and because their canapies of foilidge no longer exist the rain now has easy acces to the unprotected ,now dry surface and the rain waters wash away the top soils ,------this is water erosian

In Mexico indigenous peoples are cutting down trees to plant corn ,this land is productive for a few years before it becomes poor and useless for farming.

MUD SLIDES
the roots of the trees that have been cut down rot and tunnels are created with their diaaperance ,with heavy rains thes tunnels fill up with water and the soil lift and moves down wards .

mudslides are caused and large parts of the mountains are exposed to the rock.

the mud destroys the lands beneath and the exposed areas NEVER recover leaving the area with out vegetation forever

WATERSHORTAGE,OVERPOPULATION
each year 70 million more people are consuming water but this is ,but a small part of what agriculture uses.

so our consumption of water is ever increasing and our drinkable water supply is shrinking because of polution ,and the production of potable water is less all the time because of deforestation. Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

Answer 9

Overpopulation causes over consumption. We are using our non-renewable resourses at an alarming rate and this is due to a ballooning population worldwide. When these resources are gone, they are gone forever. Makes sense to me to try to curb the population and save our resources or at leart make them last longer. Our creator made the earth to support us within reason. If he had not wanted us to curb our population growth, he would have made it much much bigger.

Answer 10

The two are linked,

If you look at the great ancient civilizations their population grew and grew consuming more and more resources until finally the resources were gone and the population declined. In some cases their population and culture was wiped out.