Do you believe that we are now or will soon be overpopulated?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

 

[Moonglow]

I helped over populate the Earth, so I have done my duty...

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

So... Yes?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Yes.

 

[g5000]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

I think resource distribution is the problem, not over-population.

There is plenty of food to go around for everyone. It just doesn't get to everywhere it is needed, for various reasons.

So, no. We do not have an over-population problem at this time.

The first real crush we will feel, as far as population goes, will be sources of fresh water. We are going to need to find a way to economically desalinate ocean water in the near future, I think.

 

[sealybobo]

I helped over populate the Earth, so I have done my duty...

Because of this issue I have become a liberal Republican. I believe we are overpopulated and I believe their policies will discourage people who can't afford kids from having them.

 

[2aguy]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

No...some areas are overpopulated...like Japan.....but the world is not overpopulated. And the birth rates for western democracies are going down, not up....as countries become wealthier, their people stop producing large families..so if you want lower population levels, embrace freedom, capitalism and the rule of law.....they will lead to wealth and prosperity for all, and lower birth rates.....

 

[peach174]

Nature will always balance itself out with epidemics, be it animals or humans.
We are not over populated.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

My opinion on this subject varies according to who I'm standing next to.

 

[Silhouette]

Yes. If we were animals on a farm or in an micro ecosystem, the "Farmer" would've culled most of us long ago.

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[sealybobo]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

No...some areas are overpopulated...like Japan.....but the world is not overpopulated. And the birth rates for western democracies are going down, not up....as countries become wealthier, their people stop producing large families..so if you want lower population levels, embrace freedom, capitalism and the rule of law.....they will lead to wealth and prosperity for all, and lower birth rates.....

There was a time in America when the more kids you had the better. Farmers wanted lots of kids.

And our industrial boom needed more bodies so we came up with public schools to encourage people to have kids.

We've even given tax breaks for having kids.

Those days are over. Today we don't want to encourage poor people to have more kids so public schools would be a good thing to defend. Same way if we don't give foodstamps maybe a poor girl who has one mistake won't have two.

 

[LaDexter]

Indeed, the Earth is already overpopulated with humans. The fresh water shortages are the tip of the iceberg. It will only get worse.

At a minimum, we should do the following.

first 2 kids are tax deductible
third kid is not but the first two still are
have a fourth kid and that wipes out the entire deduction - want a big family? fine = YOU pay for it

 

[yiostheoy]

Simple question before I head out to work. Do you believe in overpopulation, do you think it's a current problem or a very near future one, and what label would you use to identify yourself overall?

Where is your poll ???

Do you not know how to set up a poll ???

 

[yiostheoy]

There was a time in America when the more kids you had the better. Farmers wanted lots of kids.

And our industrial boom needed more bodies so we came up with public schools to encourage people to have kids.

We've even given tax breaks for having kids.

Those days are over. Today we don't want to encourage poor people to have more kids so public schools would be a good thing to defend. Same way if we don't give foodstamps maybe a poor girl who has one mistake won't have two.

As long as there was free land then subsistence farming and meat production ranching were feasible and more kids was plausible because more land was free too.

Once the land all got grabbed this ceased to be the case and most people became city dwellers and slaves to wages by capitalist monopolists.

Land redistribution might lessen the burden now, but overpopulation of the Earth as manifest by over emigration and immigration are the modern plague of locusts.

People are the locusts now.

We need a really big war like WW1 or a really big plague like The Black Death to curb the population.

 

[yiostheoy]

Nature will always balance itself out with epidemics, be it animals or humans.
We are not over populated.

You have offered no support nor proof of your whimsical fantasy.

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[PredFan]

Yes, I believe the world is. We see it in the prevalence of hunger around the world. But this is a natural population control and shouldn't be corrected.

 

[peach174]

Nature will always balance itself out with epidemics, be it animals or humans.
We are not over populated.

You have offered no support nor proof of your whimsical fantasy.

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Basic history we all know.
Black Plague
Typhoid
Flu of 1918
Just to name a few.
With travel done so easily world wide now you could easily see 1/3 rd of the world or more wiped out.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

There was a time in America when the more kids you had the better. Farmers wanted lots of kids.

And our industrial boom needed more bodies so we came up with public schools to encourage people to have kids.

We've even given tax breaks for having kids.

Those days are over. Today we don't want to encourage poor people to have more kids so public schools would be a good thing to defend. Same way if we don't give foodstamps maybe a poor girl who has one mistake won't have two.

As long as there was free land then subsistence farming and meat production ranching were feasible and more kids was plausible because more land was free too.

Once the land all got grabbed this ceased to be the case and most people became city dwellers and slaves to wages by capitalist monopolists.

Land redistribution might lessen the burden now, but overpopulation of the Earth as manifest by over emigration and immigration are the modern plague of locusts.

People are the locusts now.

We need a really big war like WW1 or a really big plague like The Black Death to curb the population.

what do you mean by land redistribution? Im not exactly sure how you mean this or what you have pictured in your mind when you say it.

 

[Redfish]

The USA----------no
China-----------yes
India------------yes
Indonesia-------------yes
parts of Africa-----------yes
parts of central and south America------------yes
Europe-------------no
Greenland------------no

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I helped over populate the Earth, so I have done my duty...

i hope i dont live to see the day where I will see my neighbors as dinner