Are there too many people on this planet?

Answer 1

Yes, but not enough Cats!

Answer 2

There are far too many people in certain places on the planet, but not if you distributed them evenly over the entire land surface. We hear about horrendous overcrowding conditions in certain areas of Asia and Africa, resulting in famines, disease and death, but fail to realize there are vast areas of the earth's surface where there is nobody.

One of the problems associated with overcrowding is violent conflict. When people get crowded to closely together there are shortages of food and water and eventually violence breaks out; there are mass killings and oppression and millions of people die.

An interesting statistic I read not long ago stated that if you took every man, woman and child on the face of the earth and gave them each a square foot of land to stand on, they would all fit within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida.

It seems to me that the world in general would be better off if you could eliminate 2 to 3 billion people and their associated hunger, disease, and pollution.

Answer 3

Yes. If I recall a few studies I've read, the Earth's sustainable population is between 200million to one billion people.

The areas of greatest population growth (Africa, Asia and South America) are also those whose industrial and agricultural methods are the least sustainable.

So, there are a number of options:
- Kill them all. Not really practical, as they would start to smell.
- Convince them to stop having children. Not going to work, as from the perspective of an individual poor person, having children is a rational economic move. It will increase that families earning power, which is often the difference between poverty and starvation.
- Slip them a contraceptive along with the AIDS cure. They're likely to be a bit upset when they find out, but by then it's too late. An ethically dubious move, but one with a real chance of success.
- Continue on out current path, and migrate to other planets when this one is well and truly stuffed. Seems like the best option to me.

Answer 4

Here is a site that will amaze you, just by its simple counter.

http://www.populationmedia.org/

Open the site, then shrink it away and go about your business online. Say you are on for a hour. Before you turn the computer off, recheck the counter. Your mouth will drop.

Answer 5

Yes, there's way too many people on the planet.

If I had my way there would be population caps. Only X many people per square mile. People are extremely irresponsible with our reproductive rate.

In 1977 the population was around 4.3billion.
Today it is over 6.7billion.
In 2037 it is estimated that it will be over 8.9billion.

Our world population is growing FAR too rapidly over far too short of a period of time. Until there is no one going hungry, no one dying from lack of clean water, and no one dying from treatable diseases, we shouldn't be reproducing at the rate we are today.

Answer 6

NOOOOO!
They've done studies that show the earth
could support at least 30 BILLION people!
Trouble is the resources like land, food & water
are hogged up by people like the Bushs,
Rockefellers, etc and used for profit
commodities, instead of doing what we're
really supposed to... SHARE!!!

Answer 7

Only seems like that because we have more than a billion people crammed into india and lots of fat cats sat around in america and france ( both badly underpopulated) who won't let anybody in. Because they are selfish.

Answer 8

There are, and the population numbers continue to grow.

It's likely to be the problem that blindsides humanity into a lot fewer numbers one day.

Answer 9

Not yet. But it will soon be. Population isn't distributed equally thats why its already cramped on this planet.

Answer 10

People may plan all kinds of things but the Lords will is going to be done.Proverbs

Answer 11

Way too many people.