How long until the world is overpopulated and there is not enough resources for people?

Question

I dont wanna die yet!!

Answer 1

It depends on what kind of behavior that humans will choose as to what a carrying capacity will be. The unfair and grossly inefficient consumer-focused societies we have now cannot sustain even present day population levels.

Mainly we have to get past our present oligarchy/imperialist classist ridden nonsense to one more focused on real democracy. Then, as populations become less impoverished, they will just naturally stop having relatively large families, as what has already occurred in some of the more industrialized nations.

Answer 2

OMG you have got to be kidding me!!  Are you really that naive to believe that you will die?   Do us all a favor and get an education and a life.  Sheesh!!

Answer 3

I seriously think that it is already happening.  Maybe not exactly in the US, but it is already overpopulated in Asia and some of Europe.  It is a huge issuse. The whole problem of no more oil and climate change has started because there are too many people on the earth using all of its resources. But don't worry, you won't die. None of us will. If the world is to end it will happen in a couple of generations.

Answer 4

never because we will move to mars or the moon or even uranus.

Answer 5

if anything does happen like that, it won't be for a loooooonnnnnnngggggg time, like until after everyone living right now is dead

Answer 6

It already is, you just don't realise because you are probably not living where people are feeling it the most.

Simply put, as a whole the world has way too many people in order to properly and healthily sustain ourselves. So many people in this world are malnourished, and its in part due to the amount of people we currently have on our planet.

Chemical solutions are also to blaim, as they have degraded the soils in a lot of developing nations around the world.

Also, you are thinking of resources in a fairly linear view, whereby we only have a certain amount before we run out. Although this is true in the case of resources such as oil, other resources such as solar energy should theoretically last us until the sun blows up on us a few million years from now (at which time we will likely have bigger issues on our hands if we are still alive).

Basically we have too many people on our planet as it is, and too much of an uneven distribution of them.

Answer 7

The world has been overpopulated for a long time and will continue to get worse. That doesn't mean that we're all going to die. It just means that the developed world will have to tighten its collective belt. It will continue to send well-meant but (in the long run) useless aid to the people of the Third World. If we could balance out gifts of food with help in contraception and ecological rehabilitation, we might see some progress, there. In our own countries, we would still be having problems, except that the causes would be political and ideological.

Answer 8

not to worry,you and your kids and grand kids and their grand kids will be dead .also the next 10 to 20 generations also will be dead.visit http://globalwarmingheartland.org

Answer 9

It wont be. Tuesdays will be Soylent Green day. Check the movie out and see the future. Trust me

Answer 10

It's happening already in some areas.  Lack of resources was a main reason why what's going on now in Darfur started.

Also, I suppose those food riots you've heard about would qualify as well.

Answer 11

I think the Earth is already overpopulated in some spots, and certainly today's gas prices symbolize our overconsumption of our natural resources...

Answer 12

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