The reason why global warming is occurring is that there are too many people in the world-Discuss?

Answer 1

overpopulation is the primary cause of all the world problems
polution,desertification,water shortage ,food shortage ,deforrestation,loss of animal habitat ,you name it

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.

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

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

an increase in desserts definately affects the global climate and is for a large part responsible for the climate change we are experiencing now

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. 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. .

SUGESTED SOLUTIONS
at a meeting in Kopenhagen in 1998 it was suggested to bring the world population down by 60%,one cannot help but wonder at how this would be archieved

population control in the past and present

War (past .present and future)
Natures way disease(today,past and future)
Manufactured disease(suspected today)
cures that kill(suspected today)
poisoned consumer goods (suspected today)
making children infertile or gay,by raising the PH level in drinking water or even drinks (suspected today)
birth control,(in the past the Olmecs women ate yams to make them infertile,today we have several methods but most reach only the educated ,i handed out condoms to an native Mazatecca comunity in oaxaca ,and the church retrieved them all )
education on birth control(not enough,again the poor regions are excluded )
laws that limit childbirth per family(China

may be we should bring back human sacrifice ,that would keep the gods happy and we could fertilize some of the millions of hectares that modern agriculture has destroyed with its chemicals.and with all the full moons we got during the year it would have a marked effect on the population.It would be more dignified than bombing countries

Answer 2

As you can see by now, any environmental question will bring out all the inbred redneck fools who want to deny the issue.

Funny thing, the UN put out a report almost two decades ago which stated quite clearly that we would have between three and four times more people on the planet than it could support on a long term basis by the year 2000.

We hit almost exactly the numbers they predicted. The current environmental issues are also in perfect agreement with what was in those reports 20 years ago.

How do I know? Because I was a young scientist working my way through grad studies at the time and really hoped they were wrong and people would wake up. They haven't.

Instead we got the SUVs, more people to wimpy to turn off their AC or lights or turn down their thermostats, more energy waste per person, more people, more chemicals and a growing number of brain damaged idiots trying to convince everyone else that nothing is wrong.

A simple and proven equation:

Eco damage = (# people * level of affluence (energy and material use) * efficiency of technology) - efforts to mitigate the damage.

Answer 3

I agree, we have the most people in the world today, it's a bad time to mingle dirty tech with our daily lives. If we'd been at this level 100 years ago, we wouldn't have this problem today, we'd not have polluted so much because there would be less people to pollute and pollute for. And by the time we reached today, we'd no longer have the dirty tech, we'd've had time to move beyond it.

So it's not just too many people, it's too many people and dirty technology. If you had less people and the same level of tech, you wouldn't have as big of a problem. Cut people by half even and that's half the cars off the road, half the products that need to get shipped from overseas, half the energy production.

You could also have this many people and it be perfectly sustainable, the 2 just mixed at a bad time. But it would be impossible to have the level of tech we do now if not for the boom, and the added people to make it.

Catch 22.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

global warming is the biggest con in the world.one of the main reason this idea has picked up is because of the thatcher government of the 80's.she wanted to be self sufficient in fuel and not depend on the miners and fuel from abroad.she opted for nuclear fuel.Britain in the 80's was a no no to nuclear fuel.she had to sell the idea ,and that's what she used global warming.how good it is,save the planted.by people caring about the planet,which is what most people would do .people came aboard and joined the band waggon ,it start of slow.but when the government started to fund research at university's,everybody realised they could make a living out of it.the waggon is now at full speed as billions upon billions is spent convincing everybody that we need to put more money into it.tax us more because we all seem to except tax for global warming.it is a fast .the only people who have anything to lose are the millions of millions of people who have jobs trying to convince us that there is a need to tax us so they can justify there jobs!!!!!!!!i agree we have to stop pollution which is a good thing.the trouble is if people speak out,they are crucified,if they show prove they are crucified.if they go to a university's they are ridiculed.a place of open learning.why?????????because the government spends million on research at university's.they are set to lose money,jobs .open learning my ar-e.it is common knowledge that the world was a warmer place millions of years ago,by another 5-6 degrees.i could go on all night ,but i will leave it there .and let the ones who have a job in global warming try to convince you that it is going on.let's see the universitys open up and discuss global warming honestly

Answer 6

If that's the reason, then what caused the earth to warm between the Ice Ages--WHEN THERE WERE NO PEOPLE--pray tell? Remember reading that we know there used to be tropical jungles at the now-frozen South Pole? And with the earth that warm, that sea levels were so much higher that the great American deserts used to be huge inland lakes, with dinosaurs? We know this because of the fossils of marine life there. But there were NO people then, nope. None. Zilch. And guess what: We are between Ice Ages right now. So the earth warms. Maybe we just want to give ourselves a guilt trip--or tell ourselves we are so important that our insignificant little human activities can warm this huge, huge earth. But there is plenty of evidence that it's only a natural warming cycle, one that would be taking place even if every single human on earth were killed off today. No, warming (followed by cooling) has been happening for eons, long before there were any humans. That is fact.

Answer 7

Greed and Gluttony is the reasons for Global Warming. Fossil fuels, lack of accountability for companies that pollute, frequent deforestation and a blatant disregard for our delicate eco system.

We are cutting down trees at a alarming rate so that we can use them for parper or building products. This action is depriving some animal of a home and/or food. This causes the animal to relocate or become extinct. And do we have the common sense to plant more trees, no they then sell the land to someone so they can live on some 1000 acre ranch or farm.

Answer 8

An interesting question, and here's some interesting statistics: Famine is a major problem in Africa, but arguably Africa is under-populated. Per square mile, Botswana has only 6 people, and Ethiopia 133, compared to Bangladesh which has 2266 and Holland 1164. It is bad policies that are to blame, not that there are too many people.

A second interesting fact is up to 40% of climatic change since 1890 has been caused by natural phenomena, eg. solar cycles and the frequency of volcanic erruptions. The climate system is too complex, and has many interdependies, making it very difficult to blame climate change on there being too many people in the world.

Of course there are obvious ways in which people have contriubted- high levels of CO2 being released into the atmosphere and nuclear explosions like Chernobyl contribute to climate change, but we are not soley to blame. Nature works in mysterious ways.

Answer 9

Global warming is not occuring because of excessive useage of fossil fuels, global warming is a natural thing. There has always been global warming and global cooling. In the 70's we thought that we where heading for a ice age, now we are heading for sauna land!

Answer 10

They tell us its too many people or that its too much cosumption. I think the ozone layer was damaged by all the rocket launches to space. So Global warming is a direct result, that or the nuclear testing, got nothing to do with too many people. But thats just my opinion , think about all the burning fuel in those rockets and satelites they keep sending up and its right up to the ozone layer.