Do you think overpopulation is a problem?

Question

Do you think the world is overpopulated now? Do you think it will be in the future? Also I would like to know if you think it is irresponsible for people to have more than one child per person in today's world, unlike the "olden days" when people had so many children knowing many would not survive childhood. I'm speaking mostly in terms of pollution and using the planet's natural resources.

Answer 1

it can be a problem. Depends on what human will do about it. For example, for pollution, if human start to use natural energy, it'll be solved. Then, natural resources, hmm...I think as long as they offset between what they exploit and producing, they'll be good. I believe human can do unlimited things.

Answer 2

no beacuse according to studies the earth has not reached its peak population yet so we should be fine for quite some time

Answer 3

i think its gettintg there, and it will be soon. i mean, come on, people in some countries can have more then two or three children b/c the dont have enough room!

Answer 4

Yes overpopulation is a serious problem. It is not that there is not enough land for everyone. The main problems are like you said using up the planets natural resources and pollution. I'm not going to tell people to stop having kids and that might still not solve the issue but it's going to become worse over time.

Answer 5

Yes. And it's one that will steadily WORSEN around the World- as we CONSUME More & MORE of the Earth's Resources, Land & Environment- & turn it into hot, squallid, overcrowded, city Nightmares...  :0

Answer 6

Touchy subject.  I think the world is slightly overpopulated yes.  I think some countries are more so then others. I don't think we will use up the Natural resources IF we use them correctly and all work together to save them.  But we all know that is a dream.  

So in reality I think yes there is a good chance that if something does not change soon we will start to run out of some resources.  But with Technology being so good and still becoming better we will find ways to fix problems we run into, or find ways to lessen the problem.

Yeah I think 2 kids are enough.

Answer 7

i don't think it is, i live in New York with the 4th largest population in the USA and compared to how small the state is the ratio of people to land area is huge, and i've lived here my whole live and it doesn't bother me. THAT'S OVERPOPULATION, but, overpopulation in poor area where there's no food or safe water is a problem, yet we are moving away from that as the USA army and peace core are, as we speak, saving lives in Chad, Nigeiria, and the Congo. So, i think that currently it is a problem, yet, as we are moving away from it every day, it wont be a problem in 100 years

Answer 8

No, stupidity is the problem! We spend so much time fighting and being greedy that the problems that are supposedly made by over population are actually made by ignorance, greed and power mongering. Over population is the selfish persons way of blaming others for what is happening.

Answer 9

It sure has a chain of effects which are all interrelated and heavily tax the system

People use and need land,so more and more is being changed to accommodate human growth and development

The necessary flora ,which permits life as we know it, is disappearing.

Eco-systems are being exchanged for desserts , concrete or roads.

An environmentally destructive wave is in motion, caused by expanding populations,and expanding agriculture,and now the production of Ethanol is responsible for large scale deforestation world wide ,In Mexico alone half a million hectares annually.

An increase in desserts definitely affects the global climate and is for a large part responsible for the climate change we are experiencing now

World population has doubled in the last 50 years exceeding the growth of 4 million years (since we became homo Sapiens).

To satisfy the growing demand farmers are cultivating unstable lands , too steep or dry to be sustainable.

Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .

Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

Each year billions of tons of topsoil are blown or washed away by storms.

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,

Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

NATURES POINT OF VIEW

In Nature exists such a thing as the law of Harmony and Equilibrium

Some Native peoples have always been aware of this

to limit the tribes number to as many as the tribe can afford to feed

The Central Americans sacrificed the excess children,the earlier ones like the Olmec practiced birth control

Amazonian tribes have strict sexual rites that limit copulation in the conventional way.

Animals have lots of young when there is plenty of food ,and have little or none when the conditions are bad

when there is a plague of rabbits ,many foxes are born,

when there is no game lions ,and other predators have few cubs.

plants do roughly the same

All follow the LAW OF NATURE OF EQUILIBRIUM

everybody is welcome ,but nobody in excess.

we must co-exist on this planet and limit our numbers to our resources

All of Nature obeys these LAWS,but Humans put themselves above the LAW,and have bred themselves into a plague

It is a miracle that Nature has allowed us to get this far.

Everything else is set upon by plagues ,disease or predators ,when they exceed their allotted quantity,or there are Natural disasters .

There are two moments in the existence of a specie when extinction is likely,

when there are two few

And when there are too many.

Maybe Gaia is trying to tell us something with Global Warming

Humanity should listen and beware

we are part of the same Eco systems

and subject to the same LAWS

whether we like it or believe it or not