Overpopulation

There is a population explosion going on right now, is not something new but is getting even more scarier
For example in India, 50 percent of the population has reach reproduction matuirity, in some places women are obligated to have more than 8 children because they must give birth to a baby boy.

understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to the area's carrying capacity. When is an area overpopulated? When its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources (or converting renewable resources into nonrenewable ones) and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. In short, if the long-term carrying capacity of an area is clearly being degraded by its current human occupants, that area is overpopulated.

✅ I say we shoot them 😛

Seriously, I say people stop having less children, though it's probably easier to say than it is to apply 😬

Kaleanae are you reading Malthus? Just for the record......I agree with population overgrowth.

More children=less natural resources=doom for all 😖mart:

Originally posted by §pearhead
✅ I say we shoot them 😛

Education could be a solution

Well, I personally don't plan to have kids 'cause I don't really want all that responsibility... I think a lot of people are like that but they end up having kids anyways by accident...

Originally posted by silver_tears
More children=less natural resources=doom for all 😖mart:

On the contrary, More children equal future workers. More workers equals more production. Production equals survivor. Mother Earth can produce vast quantities of natural resources.

🙂

No, more people, more need for food, more need for food, more need for places where to grow food and raise cattle, there is no place left. Now, people are beginning to use rainforest, like in Costa Rica, were a great part of the rainforest has been destroyed in order to grow bananas - chiquita to be more specific - and that means less trees, and trees are the lungs of the earth.

China is an overpopulated country, they have a good economy, but is the #1 country contributing to global warming and environmental destruction.

Those are agrarian problems that are constanly changing in order to improve the production of supplies. Sure bananas are much better to plant and sell. But sometime trees need to be cut down for certain plantation lands (bananas for example). If trees are needed then the Agrerian laws enforce the law of planting more trees. Cut a tree=plant another tree. Thus the cycle is never lost.

Originally posted by WindDancer
Thus the cycle is never lost.

But land space is 😬 As Kal said, space for anything limited, unfortunately.

Originally posted by WindDancer
On the contrary, More children equal future workers. More workers equals more production. Production equals survivor. Mother Earth can produce vast quantities of natural resources.

🙂

Yes, Earth can produce vast quantities of natural resources, but when you're talking about upwards of six billion of the most destructive organisms on Earth... Nature can't keep up. If we keep this up, sooner or later, we're going to run out of oil (which I predict will happen in the not-too-distant future, unless we can come up with a better way of powering cars), forests, minerals, basically everything that our society depends on. It is quite selfish of us indeed to think that it's never-ending and we can take as much as we want. When people of European descent started coming over here, and to the West specifically, they saw thousands and thousands of acres of forest, farmland, even herds of bison that spanned miles. There was just so damn much of it, they figured it was never going to run out. So they just planted and cut and shot to their heart's content, and all of a sudden they realized they were running short on things to plant and cut and shoot. They had nearly exhausted their resources. Oops.

Originally posted by WindDancer
Those are agrarian problems that are constanly changing in order to improve the production of supplies. Sure bananas are much better to plant and sell. But sometime trees need to be cut down for certain plantation lands (bananas for example). If trees are needed then the Agrerian laws enforce the law of planting more trees. Cut a tree=plant another tree. Thus the cycle is never lost.

Originally posted by WindDancer
Those are agrarian problems that are constanly changing in order to improve the production of supplies. Sure bananas are much better to plant and sell. But sometime trees need to be cut down for certain plantation lands (bananas for example). If trees are needed then the Agrerian laws enforce the law of planting more trees. Cut a tree=plant another tree. Thus the cycle is never lost.

Well, like Spear said, it works if you only look at the trees. But there is a whole 'nother part of the equation that cannot be ignored--the land. What good does it do you if you have enough trees to plant a forest but noplace to do it?

And Kal, I just got back from Costa Rica a few weeks ago, and holy shit you aren't kidding about the banana plantations. You drive from San Jose to the Caribbean coast (or as close to it as you can get by car) and there is NOTHING but banana plantations for about half the trip. And Mr. Luis the tour guide said that there are no more family owned banana farms. They're all owned by major corporations like Chiquita and Dole.

The answer is simple.... Kill more people.

Hmm... The question then becomes... Which is more valuable--people, or forests? The answer seems to logically be forests... But my will to survive as a human prevents me from answering this quickly... A paradox, indeed.

I think overpopluation is basically something we won't be able to avoid. Like someone already stated, most births are by accident, and aren't planned. The more we can create (children-wise) the more we use. That goes for trees to, so if we stop cutting down trees we run out of space. If we stop...well i doubt we would stop having kids....

So to sum this up; We're all screwed no matter what

Originally posted by BackFire
The answer is simple.... Kill more people.

I volunteer Tex as our first sacrafice ✅

Originally posted by BackFire
The answer is simple.... Kill more people.

Sure, thats the simple answer. Who gets the right to decide who dies?

I call that job 😱