What is your opinion in overpopulation have we reached our carrying capacity or not?

Answer 1

you could place each and every human on the planet in Rocky Mountain National Park standing shoulder to shoulder. You could place each and every human on the planet in the state of Texas and each person would have approx 1300 sq. feet around them. farmers are being paid to not grow crops. You do the math. This is a scientific fact.

Answer 2

Exceeded, I'd say. The world can sustain the current population, in it's current condition, with the current technology, for some time, but the resource depletion will eventually make it untennable.

Then again, that's probably been true at many points in history. When everyone was burning coal, for instance, and the only available fertilizers were guano, the earth couldn't possibly have supported the population it does now.

Changing technology is the wildcard. Today, we can support a population that would have been unthinkable 300 years ago - for a century or two, with a little luck. In a century or two, who knows?

Answer 3

technically we can hold more right now.. but there are way to many people.

Global warming will only continue to make this worse as more areas become less usuable.

Also some farming practices (high yeild) may be short term useful.. but long term are not sustainable practices and depend on petroleum product (which is another issue .. 100$+ oil.. peak oil etc.. petrol agriculture... hello organic.. etc..) (also take into account that much foodstuffs go to animal crops which use up more food to produce a relative ammount of food energy - essentially animal food product takes more food to make, meaning that if/when food prices increase for those based on petrol, animal product costs will increase, so industries such as livestock will be less economical)

There are issues.. there are too many people for many reasons.. I don't think humans were ment to live in megacities.. they arn't healthy and promote cancer.. so to with large ammounts of unchecked industry etc..

we are in big trouble.. life goes on though... those of us that are here already just got to accept it, people jumping boat ain't necisarily a good thing..

world population is starting to be checked .. but really infertility due to pollution (such as womens estrogen from birth control pill use in our drinking water and other countless things promote that) but it turns into economics of birth.. can you afford to have fertility drugs to have a baby and crap like that...

there are too many.. we can hold more people die of starvation or otherwise.. there are more issues then the technical holding capacity of the planet.. distrobution and supply are other issues related.. as well as standards and quality of life and related cultural applications.

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THE DEAD HUMANS?

Answer 4

Anya, our organic donning means is a hundred-two hundred million, and we reached that long long some time past! Agriculture better our donning means to approximately 2 billion. technological know-how produced vegetation that have been extra effective, increasing our donning means to approximately 6 billion. you will possibly be conscious that it rather is decrease than the present human inhabitants of the Earth. properly, very very nearly one thousand million people pass hungry daily, and we are overfishing the oceans and in some places, we are overtaxing the land with the aid of undesirable agricultural practices.

Answer 5

Overpopulation has contributed to a lot of the strife we are feeling right now. Wars, disasters, disease, etc.

There is a natural way of thinning the herd and I think it has started happening.

Answer 6

Been past that for 100 years. Not so much the carrying, but the comfortable range.

Answer 7

I think it was reached over a hundred years ago..

Answer 8

Not yet, but soon enough we will not be able to feed our population.