should we worry about the growing human population?

Question

Do you agree with population control?

Answer 1

yes ofcourse but how ???

population control in the past and present

War (past and future)
disease(today,past and future)
cures that kill(suspected today)
poisoned consumer goods (suspected today)
making children infertile or gay(suspected today)
birth control,(i the past the Olmecs women ate yams to make them infertile )
education on birth control(not enough )
human sacrifice (Mayas ,Aztecs,druids)
laws the limit childbirth per family(China)


people use and need land,so more and more is being changed to accomodate human growth and devellopment

the necessary flora ,which permits life as we know it, is disappearing.

We must learn to live with the trees without them, we are vulnerable to the forces from space,

leaving us to burn during the day or freeze in the nights. Without water , food and air.

Eco-systems are being exchanged for desserts , concrete or roads.

An environmentally destructive wave is in motion, caused by expanding populations.

World population has doubled in the last 50 years exceeding the growth of 4 million years (since we became homo sapiens).
To satisfy the growing demand farmers are cultivating unstable lands , too steep or dry to be sustainable.


Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .
Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

Each year billions of tons of topsoil are blown or washed away by storms.

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people,

are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.

This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

Africa and Asia are loosing millions of people to AIDS , many of whom were food producers.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

Answer 2

Yes. Human population growth is the biggest threat to humans today. Humans are the only species of animal that does not achieve an equilibrium with their environment. You see how places like Ethiopia and other African nations (and some other locations) breed beyond the ability of their local environment's ability to support them.

Although globally there should be adequate, distribution is the big problem.

But food is not the only problem. Even if you could adequately feed people, population density has been proven to have psychological and sociological effects. Population density needs to be controlled.

The world was a better place for everyone when there were fewer humans.

Answer 3

The best way to control population is to industrialize. Every single Western nation relies on immigration for population growth because deaths are outpacing births. Europe would be experiencing a population decline were it not for immigration. The US would be at a level population were it not for immigration. You can see it in the birth and death rate records and fertility estimates.

The Lesson: The more affluent a society, the fewer children those societies have.

Answer 4

If human population increases extremely than food will not be enough and people will start to die. I.e the classical natural balance.

But human have a perfect weapon named technology. So much more food can be produced but in undeveloped countries population still increases without any plan. To me population should be controlled strictly, if the environment cannot feed more people than it should not be allowed.

Answer 5

Yes and yes. At least I'm starting to see the question asked more often, both here and other places. That's slightly encouraging. Usually, people simply refuse to acknowledge that its a problem. If we don't control our own population, mother nature will do it for us, and I can pretty much guarantee that no one will like her methods.

Answer 6

YES YES but our Meir 300 million compared to 6 billion is nothing.