If all humans went back to living off the land?

Question

And not contribute to Global warming would there be a mass die off of people ? Have we become so entrenched in the Modern ways that are population is artificially high ?

Answer 1

The "land" is not sufficient to support more than 20 million people in America so yes 90 per cent would die.  The environment would suffer tremendously.  We have developed agriculture and technology to allow our population to increase.  WIthout it, we could not survive in my opinion.  Global warming would happen whether or not we were technological.  If and when global cooling occurs, those numbers that could survive would go way down.

Answer 2

to late... we would all have mercury poisoning... the earth is tainted.

Answer 3

wo. humans are not doomed. if you talk about "all humans" and really get that big in scale, we're just like a plant. if 90% die off and the plant survives, who cares?

Answer 4

I would think that situation would keep everything into a natural equilibrium, we wouldn't be more either less than the earth could support safely, our population is the result of our own  irrational behavior, and certainly there is a limit for everything, I think we already passed that line a long time ago, and we started from some centuries ago to pay for that, humankind will see progressively in the future its own extinction and nobody could blame others for this big mistake, we are living an unstoppable trip to the end.

Answer 5

People are too lazy, and are not trained in the ways of survival. It would mean many deaths. Of course, I can see that alot of grocery stores would get their canned foods looted.

Answer 6

"Artificially high" is such a strange concept.  Why do some people think that "the old ways" were so good.  Think about that and analyze the thought.

Are you thinking without modern advances in medicine, etc., that the population would be smaller and the world would be better?  Check the mortality rates for women and children during childbirth less than 200 years ago, let alone 1000 years ago.

Our life spans are longer, we are healthier as a race (human).  Proportionately less people die from war now than they have through most of history; although technically we have to power to blow up the world.

We have advances because of science for the most part, but when it comes to Global Warming so many exclude most of the major scientists of the world when making their determination.

By the way, did you know Al Gore pays his "carbon credits" to a company of which he is at least a partial owner.

Answer 7

I doubt that half of Americans know how to hunt, fish, or plant a garden nowadays.  Everything is "too convienent"

Answer 8

my family are hunters. when i was young mom would kill the chickens, us kids would clean em. i watched my bros and uncles kill and clean cows and pigs right there on our property. then we would ride the horses to the swimming hole and go swimming and they would take a dip with us.  my brother at age 16 worked in a taxidermist. when i was 19 i worked at a hunting lodge, clean pheasant, quail,ducks and watched the men clean deer,ram, and elk. my bros apply for hunting licenses every year.  i go see my uncle every year  he makes moonshine and his son kills deer and dresses them out everyyear, he's such a tight *** sometimes, thats all he'll eat. he'll fill his fridge.  if a cow or deer gets hit by a vehicle, people that live around where it happens, calls my relatives to see if the meat is good.(roadkill). d**n,not alot of my family are city folk, and we live in nevada, oregon, and northern california.  

SO WE COULD LIVE OFF THE LAND, NO PROBLEM

Answer 9

The population of the world during the Hunter Gatherer period was about 10,000,000 tops. During the Agricultural period the top population was 400 million. Human population didn't exceed 500 million until the Renaissance began. One Billion in 1802, two billion 1925.

We have exceeded 6.5 billion people and by the year 2050, if the current level of increase continues we should be somewhere between 9-10 billion.

If all of the human race tried to go back to living off the land, there would be a good chance that we would just end up extinct, due to the wars we would rage against each other trying to get the resources to survive.

Human kind, as a species, is doomed.