Why is the world overpopulated, and what can we do about it?

Question

When a population of animals in nature outstrips its food source, that population declines until it's again in balance with its food source.

Humans, however, have a food source that is constantly raising. As a result, though we still have famine all over the world, we're becoming amazingly, and horribly, overpopulated. 'Every increase in food production to feed an increased population is answered by another increase in population'. When we have excess in Arizona of food, that doesn't mean the AZ population is going to grow...but some population somewhere will inevitably grow. Basically, First World farmers are fueling the Third World growth population.

So, what do we do? Our world is becoming overpopulated and the humans have completely messed up the balance. We don't let nature curb the human race. We keep growing more food to cure a famine that won't be cured. Preaching "birth control" as a viable solution to curb growth obviously isn't working-- in fact, some groups oppose its use!

Thoughts?

Answer 1

If we were a communist dictator ship like China then it would be okay control the population but since the rest of the world does not operate like than then I suggest that countries invest in  birth control.  

Answer 2

you obviously don't travel much.

i am a former interstate truck driver and i can tell you from experience that there is plenty of land and wilderness out there.

i spent countless hours driving through miles and miles of desolate areas where there is nothing but trees, wilderness, and open land.

sometimes i would drive through an entire state without seeing any homes, businesses, cities, cars, or industry.

you just live in a populated area so it may SEEM like we are overpopulated. but trust me, there is plenty of land out there.  

Answer 3

Maybe creating chemicals that sterilize people and putting it in specific food sources to cut down population on a certain type of people. I wouldn't really advise this for the obvious reasons, but it has it's theoretical uses.