How many humans does it take ?

Question

I keep wondering about all the natural disasters that keep happing in the world, and can't help but wonder how long the human race can keep multiplying before we burst or little blue planet at the seems.

Answer 1

Alsnow: I am not American, but I must put the record straight.

America pours billions of dollars in overseas aid. That in itself is going to save many more lives than are destroyed in Iraq and Afghanistan, which horrific as that is, only amounts to thousands of lives, not the billions you so callously and ignorantly put forward.

Also, if you knew anything at all about the situation in the Middle east, the history leading up to the the first Gulf War, you might begin to realise that the lives lost in Bagdhad today are a drop in the ocean compared with what could have ensued without western intervention.

Iraq and Iran lost a million men in the stupid 8 year war they fought in the 1980s. But you would not know about that because you and your kind cannot see beyond the current news headlines.

And to asnwer the question:

It is very naive to think we can fill up the world. The problem is that there may not be enough cultivatable land to feed us all.

There is plenty of space. 90% of the world is empty.

Answer 2

This "little blue planet" has been trucking for 4.55 billion years. Humanity will wipe itself out way before anything happens to the planet. She's been through it all and she's bounced back every time. There might be a time when the Earth doesn't bounce back, but chances are we will be long gone.


***alsnowh: If that was sarcasm.....yeah, it didn't work.