Overpopulation

Started by §pearhead4 pages

As long as I'm not on the hit list 😖

Statistically we could fit all the people in the world comfortably and efficiently in about the area of rhode island and sustain them with food with efficiency with the surrounding countryside. There is more then enough room for everyone and our foolish planning is what sucks up our land and reasources.... we just don't plan ahead just build on the ashes of those before us...

Uh... No. There is no way that over 6 billion people could fit comfortably in Rhode island and sustain the entire population on food grown in the area. Absolutely no f***ing way.

Originally posted by §pearhead
Sure, thats the simple answer. Who gets the right to decide who dies?

I do, of course.

🙄 😂

Originally posted by Raventheonly
Statistically we could fit all the people in the world comfortably and efficiently in about the area of rhode island and sustain them with food with efficiency with the surrounding countryside. There is more then enough room for everyone and our foolish planning is what sucks up our land and reasources.... we just don't plan ahead just build on the ashes of those before us...

Ditto what DR said...how the hell is that possible? I live in the state next to Rhode Island, and let me tell ya, RI is crammed enough as it is. You mean to tell me that roughly 3000 (more probably, that was a quick mental calclation and math aint my strong point) times the people who already live can fit in there? Hell no! There's no way you'll fit all the people, and there is definitely no way you'll have enough room to cultivate crops and such in the same area...

...or maybe you just have a very objective view about "comfortable".

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

thomas malthus.. tragedy of the commons if im not mistaken?

The populations of many European countries and most other industralized nations are actually declining. Something like -2 to -1% in most of those cases!

People banging boots in India and China need to wear rubbbers! ✅

People should stop having many children in eastern countries ✅
I don't think overpopulation applies for western ones 😬 at least not here
Or is it mostly referring to old people? Cause there are countries in which the majority of the population is old people. But we can't help that, medicine is getting better day by day 😄

well I think if we don't find a way soon famine and diseases will solve the problem.

Ever the optimist Fire......

Vote for Famine!!!

DR> The main factor is indeed land. True, nature sometimes cannot keep up with demanding forces of production of man. That's why I mention agrarian laws. Those laws were intended to maintain a balance of explotaion of the soil. Remenber the "dust bowl" of Oklahoma way back in the 1930's (I'm assuming that you read it in History). Ever since that incident the US and the UN have been studying the causes of misuse of land. Thanks to those studies land preservation laws have been enforce in some countries. Unfortunally politics do play a roll in bending the laws.

Kaleanae> Of course is all about Capitalist explotaion on Nature! I agree with you. But you also have to remenber that the ppl working for the corporations have families to feed. Mostly I'm referring to the peasants (living near the land) that work the land. Should we save a tree or put food on the table? Ask yourself what choice does the worker have in those situations?

forumcrew> That's him! I was mostly thinking of his "Essay on the Principle of Population" book.

Originally posted by Fire
well I think if we don't find a way soon famine and diseases will solve the problem.

and war for oil and water

Originally posted by Kaleanae
China is an overpopulated country, they have a good economy, but is the #1 country contributing to global warming
Erm no That's the United States...

^^Agreed....

Isn't Global Warming mainly down to the use of CFCs? (Aerosols)

That's what I heard, but I'd heard that 3 or so years ago, I haven't been paying much attention to global warming.

Well you guys might not belvie it but population in the UK is DECREASING yep thats right because in 30 years time there will be more people over 60 then under. This means that there will be many gaps in the market to be filled.

So the UK has a different poblem which is a decrease in population 🙂

Originally posted by M®$ L¿ÑK
Isn't Global Warming mainly down to the use of CFCs? (Aerosols)

yes and no

those products do stay in the atmosphere and do have the characteristic of absorbing heat, cause the Global Warming

the no side is that it's hugely overrated, it's not due to those products that we have or have not a global warming, latest estimates that I heard of, gave a warming of around 0.1 °C due to CFCs

there is an old thread discussing it, it points to relevant websites, search it up

The main thing for which the CFCs are blamed is the destruction of the ozon layer, not really global warning

GP... nitpicker 😛 😊

Originally posted by ash007
Well you guys might not belvie it but population in the UK is DECREASING yep thats right because in 30 years time there will be more people over 60 then under. This means that there will be many gaps in the market to be filled.

So the UK has a different poblem which is a decrease in population 🙂

Japan is in the same situation, and now they say that if the population decreases even more in Japan, their economy is going to begin to suffer