Current Events > CE do you believe in WORLD POPULATION issues?

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Some people some Humans, think they got the right to controls the population

Give speeches and everything.

Isn't that not their problem?, they are just one of many others on the planet

who says you decide they must go and you stay?

explain this nonsense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNxctzyNxC0

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We are nowhere near the carrying capacity of the Earth.

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This is soo weird, if this bothers them soo much....go turn off your experience, it even helps their belief.

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Healthcare is a double edge sword towards balancing of human population.

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Oh, I didn't realize who TC was. Don't give him attention

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Garioshi posted...

We are nowhere near the carrying capacity of the Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6yLiicMOl4

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Oldin posted...

Healthcare is a double edge sword towards balancing of human population.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN92srq5jwg

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Joeydollaz posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6yLiicMOl4

The royal family is not a reliable source on this issue
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how can it be overpopulated when we have barely explored most the planet?

i just think there's a balancing issue with ethnicities

kylobrr posted...

i just think there's a balancing issue with ethnicities

uh
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kylobrr posted...

how can it be overpopulated when we have barely explored most the planet?

i just think there's a balancing issue with ethnicities

Wtf

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there is a pandemic, there is your sign

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I honestly think the world is massively underpopulated. People latch on to the problem of "running out of resources", just because that is a very visceral and easy to understand problem, but there would be much less suffering in the world with more people, not less.

The whole point of population issues is a virus spreading! you guys don't want to think about the future when it is staring you in the face, be dumb.

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Anyone who says theres no population problem has never worked retail during the holidays.

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Nope and if it's a food shortage problem that's false with the mega tons of food we waste/throw away a year.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

i worked at Walmart for 9 years, bucko.

holiday retail crowds is not a population problem

I dunno about that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

Remember watching this a long time ago. One thing that struck me was the emergence of asocial mice as the population grew past a certain point.

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Garioshi posted...

We are nowhere near the carrying capacity of the Earth.

Sad_Face posted...

the emergence of asocial mice as the population grew past a certain point.

Isnt that where we are getting to now, where people are becoming anime/videogame obsessed hikikimori NEETs lol

I agree that eternal growth is not feasible, and so at some point population growth will need to level off.
In my opinion, the solutions to this are:

• Improved access to sexual health and contraception
• Improved maternity and paediatric care (including public health, immunisation) to reduce maternal and child mortality, particularly in developing areas
• Improved access to education and work opportunities for women

Pretty much every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline to 2.0 or below as these things have improved.

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I believe it is overpopulated. It's all very well saying "it can support 12 billion" but the question is should it have to? At what cost? Do we cut down all the rainforests for farmland? Do we cram a 100 million at a time into megacities?

That all sounds dystopian to me. People need space. We live closer and more connected than ever but people are increasingly reclusive. I'm not surprised.

We are already a verminous plague on this earth. At some point it will boil over, not in our lifetimes but eventually, if we don't control population growth, things will get really bad imho.

My two cents on the issue.

if you want less population growth, all you have to do is stop enabling it

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I do think over population is a problem, but theres really no morale solution to that other than expanding resources.

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Cinderforge posted...

I believe it is overpopulated. It's all very well saying "it can support 12 billion" but the question is should it have to? At what cost? Do we cut down all the rainforests for farmland? Do we cram a 100 million at a time into megacities?

The reason why we're a "verminous plague" is not because there's too many of us. If there were a lot less of us we could still be a verminous plague, just a small one. Or there could be a LOT more of us, and we don't have to be a verminous plague about it. The Earth can only hold so many people who can still live reasonably comfortably, that's true, but we're far from that number. The problems that are blamed on "overpopulation" have more to do with learning how to live with ourselves and the environment than they do with there being too many of us. That's a simplistic, dumb cop-out.

I'm not against taking reasonable steps for population control by the way. At some point we may very well have to. But we'll never ever even get to that point if we don't solve other problems first.
We could also take those steps already. There's nothing inherently wrong with them, on the contrary. But they're not what's going to solve the "overpopulation" problems. Those will keep cropping up perhaps cyclically until we truly learn to deal with them.

DuranOfForcena posted...

this is exactly the kind of thing that the Kurzgesagt video i posted goes in-depth into, and is the very reason why true overpopulation will likely never be an issue. as long as we people of the "1st world" nations who have seen our birth rates level off already due to modern advances in medicine and technology can work together to promote and facilitate these same advances worldwide.

Yeah, that's one good point.

The real issue is how we use and distribute our resources in tandem with an increasing population. It's unbalanced and wasteful.

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Tellingly, when people start talking about population control they very rarely mean amongst the wider societal/geographical group they are part of

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