Who is over-populating the world?

Question

This is a serious question not meant to be discriminating, but I have seriously thought about it. I live in canada, in a somewhat large city, and I have noticed that wthin the last 10 or so years, as caucasian person, I have become a minority. Everywhere I go, there are fewer than 10 percent caucasian people. At the malls, at resturants, at parks... everywhere. And it seems like it's the Asian population in general that is taking over. Please do not think I am racist. I love living in this time where we can meet so many different people. But when it boils down to it, this is Canada, and it seems like anyone can get in, and that every asian person that come here, brings 10 more behind them. And then they each have 4 or 5 kids each. Seriously, like when I walked through Superstore one day, every Philippino/Chinese/Japanese couple I passed had a couple kids, one in a stroller and the Mother was pregnant. Am I the only one who thinks this way?

Answer 1

At some point we are going to have to think about the biodiversity of the human species. The white race is under represented by an extremely large margin due to overpopulation in underdeveloped and developing countries. This will become an important issue in the near future. In the meantime, we should welcome lucky immigrants who have managed to make it and are only trying to have the same standard of living as we have. They are still a minority in the Americas and in Europe.

Consider also that the white race tends to use up the highest amount of the earth's resources. Isn't it reasonable for many other countries and races to wish a comparable lifestyle that we have enjoyed for so long? And just imagine if every Chinese person had the same standard of living as an average American. The earth will literally be pillaged to death! We definitely need to come to a fair and just system that will keep all of the earth's races and nationalities at the same level of economic prosperity without destroying our Mother Earth.

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to crabby_blindguy, with due respect, even if we solve our energy problems, we will still have to deal with overpopulation and it's effects on the environment. If you are really part of the environmental movement you would know this so I question your motives. The earth is not an unlimited reservoir of resources that we can use to take care of 6 billion people on an annual basis to meet all their needs year after year. The resources shrink and this has an effect on our earth. It has been calculated that the earth can only renew some of it's basic resources that a population of no more than 2 Billion can sustain itself. Most of the resources, when they are gone, are gone forever no matter how small the population. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. This is the inconvenient fact that every environmentalist and scientist knows who has ever studied the problem.

Secondly, even if we solve our energy problems we will have to increase use of energy resources to meet the increasing requirements of the population. For instance, we would need to construct more and more solar panels which would need to be replaced every ten years with newer panels at an increasing rate to meet demand and increasing need to use energy from advancing technology and demand from growing populations that desire a standard living higher and higher than their previous standard of living.

Anyway, eventually overpopulation will be in the forefront of environmental discussions in the near future, but for now let's at least agree, we need to replace fossil fuels. This is definitely today's priority.

Answer 2

Actually in Canada you don't have to worry much about overpopulation - from any race. The countries that are facing overpopulation are third world countries where birth control is practically non-existant and many families have too many children to help with the difficult chores they have to do because they lack simple modern conveniences like running water and grocery stores. Populations in very modern countries like Cananda, US, UK and Japan remain quite steady and some are even on the decline, which will actually create the opposite population problem - an abundance of elderly and too few working aged people to pay taxes and help support them. Immigration could be a good solution to this emerging problem; the immigrants will ease the burden on over-populated countries while filling jobs that educated westerners don't want to take and contributing tax dollars from their wages.

Answer 3

The answer is --no one.

Seriously. The rate of world population increase is slowing--and will rech zero in a few decades. There is no population problem, except in the sense that some regions are overpopulated while others are underpopulated.

The whole "global warming is the result of overpopulation" myth was started by the specilal interests to draw attention away from the real cause--the obsolete fossil fuel technology that they make money off of.

Stop and think, for pete's sake! We have the basic technology NOW to produce most of our energy without fossil fuels--and the technology needed to eliminate coal and oil entirely is within reach. With a stable population--which we're going to get anyway--and no need for fossil fuels--global warming can be stopped.

And again--THINK. Who are the only losers? the oil and coal companies. Why do you think they are beatingthis "overpopulation" drum? Its jsut one more way to distract people.

Answer 4

Does the question of minority or race even matter? We're living in a time where the global economy is expanding and trying to building international relation bonds. If you can do business with others, what's the difference of living in the same town as them? World population in general will never be 'over-populated', although they do fluctuate as birth-rates and death-rates vary over time. You can also look at it from a cultural or social perspective; those who are well educated would be less likely to have a family or even kids. As one sacrifice long hours at the office, one would have no time to socialize. This immersion in ones work could lead to failed marriages, etc. Mean while, those who are dependent on low-wage labor that requires little to no skills, they might feel the need to have more children so that their children could live out their dreams. It is within human nature to reproduce and leave offspring for the future generation in times of hardship. From a biological point of view, this is the human instinct for survival because living does not mean living out your life, but to ensure that you have distributed your genetic information into the gene pool.

Answer 5

The caucasian population is definitely not growing as are other racial groups. This is true in Europe as well, where there are projections for huge population declines in Italy, France, Germany and other countries, not taking into account immigration from Turkey and Africa.

But there is enough intermarriage and interbreeding that we will eventually lose the worry about races anyway. That would be nice.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The Chinese are over populating the world. That's why they have a program set up so that people in china can only have one kid per family unless they live on farms.

Answer 8

I think the main thing that matters is that by various measures the population has exceeded the food supply, and that was nearly thirty years ago. Yes the population is growing more slowly as time goes by, because increasing numbers starve or die from disease. Most of them are people of color.

Answer 9

You are merely seeing the effects of different population growth rates in different parts of the world. North America would have declining population if there were no immigration, while Asia and South America have high population growth rates.

Answer 10

Yes, it is that way here in the states, except here it is Hispanics! Go to any shopping mall, the street and even in my neighborhood, there are an inordinate amount of these people! i don't want to sound racist, but, yes, there are definitely more Hispanics populating the states than are whites. Here, they take the jobs away from whites, they demand heath insurance, we have to feed them, etc, etc. The presidents aren't don't anything to stop it!