It sure seemed so important when i was growing up and in my wonder-years. only a couple of countries like china ever did anything about it. but i believe malthus and the growth projects are still right on target. is there too much stuff and too many people yet? i prefer living out in the country, myself. a little too tense in the big cities to suit me. too much stuff and too many people. TEXAS
2007-12-27 14:08:36 · 13 answers · asked by JIM 4 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
It got replaced with new "fashionable" problems - global warming, immigration etc etc. Anything new to win a vote or two.
2007-12-27 19:57:23 · answer #1 · answered by Debi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every generation that has ever been has had some impending catastrophe which was threatening to destroy mankind. All these threats have been simple mass hysteria. It was overpopulation 25 years ago, and it's global warming today. There never was a real threat of over-population. Now people in the world's developed countries are having too few babies, and their native populations are actually shrinking. Even China which was afraid that it's population would outstrip it's resources is now finding that it doesn't have enough people. Developed countries have been outsourcing their labor to China. They thought that the Chinese labor force was limitless. Turns out that they were wrong. China is running out of people to do the work. All of these doomsday scenarios eventually fall by the wayside. Another 20 years and global warming will be replaced by something else. Maybe the threat of intelligent computers. Unplug your PC now.
2007-12-28 00:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mark S IV 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, overpopulation will "take care of itself." But only by wiping out our entire species! The thing about population rising is that it will only lead to our population decline...when the population goes up, we use more resources. Eventually there will be so much people that we use up all the resourcees. When there are no resources, EVERYONE dies. But this happens in nature too...like in animals on islads with no natural predators, when they eat up all the food on the island the population goes from really high to 0. So it is probably just part of nature for the human species to die out. This is what happened on the Easter Islands...now on a larger scale...
2007-12-28 00:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by travwell 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's was actually a bunch of hog-wash...that's what became of it. The idea was to help get birth-control and abortion into the mainstream. Touting "overpopulation" as a danger, it was easier to convince the public that birth-control was necessary and abortion would help quell the masses. That of course was not the purpose nor has it been the result.
Countries, such as France, are actually paying people to have children because their population is declining. People aren't having children and the are predicting that eventually, the native French will die out.
2007-12-27 22:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Political correctness about the cultures and rights of Third World countries has caused the issues of women's rights, environmentalism, reproductive control and the ensuing shortage of resources produced by excessive numbers to be pushed by the wayside.
2007-12-27 23:57:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the talk was about preventing it in order to save the world for normal living. It is too late now, it is here.
City life can be pretty good, if you have honed your reflexes and creatively adjusted your expectations, and have a lot of money.
2007-12-27 22:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by Happy Camper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Over population takes care of itself...unless of course we come in and rescue them....or you do like China and limit the number of births. If we have the land to inhabit and the food to eat, populations will grow lest a pandemic eases the numbers a bit, personally, I think its impossible...it certainly is in America.
2007-12-27 22:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by WitchTwo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The argument was lost on deaf ears because folks choose to reproduce quicker than rabbits. Yes, China imposed a one child rule but they also realized how many baby girls were being slaughtered because of it.
2007-12-28 00:48:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's still an issue but it's one that doesn't get any votes. Blacks overpopulate as well as hispanics and whites pay the bills.
2007-12-28 03:52:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People dont like to talk about the issue because if they want a baby, they want to be able to make one.
2007-12-27 22:11:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋