Why doesn't anyone seem concerned about Overpopulation?

Question

We hear alot about of hype about Global Warming, but hasn't Overpopulation done just as much damage?

The United Nations states that:

Almost all growth will take place in the less developed regions, where today’s 5.3 billion population of underdeveloped countries is expected to swell to 7.8 billion in 2050. By contrast, the population of the more developed regions will remain mostly unchanged, at 1.2 billion.

Answer 1

We are, that's why your question might be best suited in the Immigration forum. American's are sick, and damn tired of illegals flooding our country, and continually having children they can't afford to take care of, so use welfare to get by. They cheat this nation of their tax dollars, steal our jobs, rape, kill, and thieve from our citizen's. We will never give them amnesty. They can forget that! 8 American children under the age of 12 are sexually abused by illegal aliens a day.
My best hope, however of overpopulation helping USA, is that the governemnt of China will be destroyed because of their over-population. They are already extremely over-burdened with their people. I believe they will fall to starvation, just as N. Korea is now. I am not saying I want harm to happen to their people, only that they should wise up, and see that Communism never works.

Answer 2

Are you speaking from today's figures?? Cause the overpopulation train has been going on for nearly 30 years to my knowledge. Handing over many reading materials, contraceptives, condoms and so on to educate the poorer/less developed regions and countries of the population boom. But like many of the youth today - you hand a book and they tear the pages out of it to use as toilet paper. Hand them a condom and they make a puppet of it or water balloon. Such places in Africa still base their wealth on the old traditions of how many wives has, as well as how many children a man can produce.
In Darfur it is radical soldiers raping women and little girls, and god knows the Americans (or rather Bush didn't and doesn't want to do anything about that) because there isn't enough oil surplus involved.

Even if these people do understand, and know how to and that they can reduce the number of children they are having, they're not interested because there is a value market for those children. Watch Human Trafficking when it airs on the tele or educate yourself about it.

And I suppose when every country is allowed to spay and neuter murders, rapists, and kidnappers without court or government interference. That will certainly help curb the birth rate.

Answer 3

We used to hear about it but it seems that it is not PC to talk about restrictions on child birth as it is defined as a basic human right.

The question has to be asked is why is the population going to be static in the countries of the North while in the Third World the population continues to boom? I think the answer is down to economics. In Europe for example the state has replaced many of the functions of the extended family (healthcare, care for the elderly, education etc). All this is expensive however, so family size remains small because having more children is expensive and unnecessary.

In the Third World however, the state does very little for families. In order to achieve decent levels of care, it is better to have large families so that the task of taking care of granny is shared and that there is always enough labour to help if somebody is sick. It makes sense to have more children.

So, here's the rub. Population is a function of economics and nobody is allowed to question the current economic system otherwise you are branded a commie. Hence there is not much talk of population in the media.

Answer 4

They did this already. Books like the population bomb back in the 70's said by now the whole world would have 3 or 4 billion people and all of us would be starving to death, just like global warming, global cooling etc, it is and was all B.S. just to get some scientists our tax dollars.

Answer 5

Over-population is a problem only because people want to migrate to urban areas where the jobs are. Some bright politician is going to come up with a plan to encourage migration and immigration to rural areas which will take a great deal of stress off our urban infrastructure. A good start is to wire rural areas to the internet. Second is to subsidize doctors and teachers who will live in those areas. Third, give visas with a promise of citizenship to Mexicans willing to work in rural America.

Rural America is dying. We have plenty of room for more citizens if we can keep them out of our cities.

Answer 6

It is overpopulation that is directly causing many of the problems we have: global warming, overfishing, deforestation, continued extinction of wildlife, etc.

It doesn't matter if you cut carbon emissions of vehicles and coal plants in half, if the population keeps increasing.

Answer 7

No - get with the times man! that was the previous big scare. We have moved on to the global warming scare to suck more money out of the western developed world.