What happens if the world population doubles by 2050?

Question

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2036626,00.html

riddler, I don't know of any country that thinks of itself as underpopulated. Those that have less than replacement level births have that because they wanted fewer people, given huge population explosions. While I am sure we could use replacement immigration, more than that would be unwelcome, in my opinion.

Jacob W, where will the water come from? Clean water?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/15/wimm15.xml

Answer 1

Resources will run out.
Terrorism will be a bigger threat.
Disease will be worse and more widespread.
Crime will be higher.
Oportunity for a better life will be only for the rich.
Our education level will be 3rd world,unless private pay.
Most hospitals will be bankrupt.
Our social security will be obsolete.
Middle class will all be poor.
I dont even want to think about the government.There will most likely be a civil war due to the opression of the middle class?"The issue isn't color but rate of sheer population growth... and California has already been built out beyond reason"


Steve Lopez, LATimes



Why should First World nations become dumping grounds for the Catholic and Islamic nations, and dictatorships exporting their troubles and surplus humanity? Even as a nation of immigrants, must we endlessly agree to absorb the human overgrowth of other nations, only to ruin our own?

Clearly, there are limits, and yet despite the will of the vast majority, corporate and Vatican powers force no-birth-control and unlimited immigration policies upon us. Our politicians now cater and pander more to these growth-to-ruin groups than to the vast majority who desire balance.

Today, the benefits of immigration are so often illusory, except for employers. As immigrant related medical and social costs soar, deficits arise, and hospitals close, more immigrants not only depress wages but send their spendable cash back to Mexico. In California alone, 15 billion/yr is not spent in the domestic economy at the same time social costs and deficits rise, and wages fall. Latin leaders, rather than reforming their own sick societies, continue to push people north to get this cash flow coming home.

Conveniently, this exodus removes young men and potential dissidents from the homeland so oligarchy and exploitation remain. In this way reforms are undercut and population problems exported. Today, Europe is also experiencing a backlash due to the flood of immigration from Muslim nations. In short, it is overpopulation stemming from a lack of birth control and abortion rights due to the suppression of women that combines to fuel growth-to-ruin, revolution, and terrorism everywhere.

Answer 2

Oh, no. Are we back to that again? We have been warned about overpopulation for about 50 years now. The world population was to become unsustainable by 1999.
One has nothing whatsoever to do with the other.

Here is a nice big dose of reality. If you took the entire population of human beings in the world and placed them all in three bedroom homes with two parents and two children, on 50 by 100 foot lots it would occupy and area roughly the size of Texas.

The threat to your health and well-being now is radical fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. If you must obsess on something that should be it. Anything else is incidental.




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Answer 3

Over population occurs only in certain countries. Other industrialized nations are having the opposite situation which is also problematic. Although complicated, the best solution is immigration. Those from over populated regions should relocate to under-populated places where they can contribute their skills & knowledge while helping that area to flourish. By doing this, & with prudent use of our energy resourses, they will also be helping themselves & the rest of the world.
http://www.abortiontv.com/Lies%20&%20Myths/underpopulation.htm
http://www.ru.org/94-agequake.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2137680/
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Answer 4

we will run out of resources to feed the over populated. it's a shame our worlds leaders refuse to do something about the problem. china is doing the right thing. maybe we need china running the world for a few decades.

Answer 5

Mother nature will take care of it---more humans---more gasses to destroy the ozone layer, more global warming, more horrendous natural disasters to take out the excessive human population. I think it's rediculous, and needs to be controlled.

Answer 6

I have a better chance of getting married.

Answer 7

if that would be to many people on earth, nature would take care of it by it's own

Answer 8

There will be more wars

Answer 9

people would live and do what they do today except more happily I would hope .

Answer 10

FOOD SOURCE AND CLEAN WATER..
PEOPLE DIE RAPIDLY...
DISEASE SPREADS FASTER--MORE DIE--DISEASE SPREADS==MORE DIE==CHAIN GETS WORSE..