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

[EverCurious]

Glances around home [Alaska]... Nope.

 

[Unkotare]

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.

Nonsense. There is NO overpopulation.

 

[hazlnut]

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?

Repubs believe God told them to close down women's health clinics.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

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?

Repubs believe God told them to close down women's health clinics.

womens health clinics are no longer needed to be funded by taxpayer dollars, its a redundant expense that needs to be cut. Doing so will not affect any service to women at all.

 

[Unkotare]

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?

Repubs believe God told them to close down women's health clinics.

Democrats think they're fooling anyone by calling abortion butcher-shops "health clinics."

 

[Unkotare]

Indeed, the Earth is already overpopulated with humans. ......it

No, it is not.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, I believe the world is. We see it in the prevalence of hunger around the world. .....

There were people starving to death when the global population was half of what it is today, and when it was half of that, and half of that, and half of that...

 

[Maryland Patriot]

it seems overpopulated because most people choose to live in or right outside of cities. The amount of land that is not used on earth is huge.

 

[PredFan]

Yes, I believe the world is. We see it in the prevalence of hunger around the world. .....

There were people starving to death when the global population was half of what it is today, and when it was half of that, and half of that, and half of that...

True, but not whole countries or regions.

 

[LaDexter]

No, it is not.

You are an emotionally charged science invalid who has no basis to even comment on this issue. You do not understand the planet and the strains that are currently put on it. You just parrot some liar on Sundays and will never develop the intellectual basis to break out of that religious paper bag over your head.

It starts with fresh water, and then gets worse very rapidly.

 

[PredFan]

We make things worse with our good natured but I'll advised attempt to feed the hungry. The more we feed them, the more children they make.

 

[Unkotare]

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.

List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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.

With information, goods and services done so easily world wide now it is less likely than ever before.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, I believe the world is. We see it in the prevalence of hunger around the world. .....

There were people starving to death when the global population was half of what it is today, and when it was half of that, and half of that, and half of that...

True, but not whole countries or regions.

Oh yes.

 

[Unkotare]

No, it is not.

You are an emotionally charged science invalid who has no basis to even comment on this issue. You do not understand the planet and the strains that are currently put on it. You just parrot some liar on Sundays and will never develop the intellectual basis to break out of that religious paper bag over your head.

It starts with fresh water, and then gets worse very rapidly.

A swing and a miss! Religion has nothing to do with it. We will NEVER use all the fresh water on this planet.

 

[Unkotare]

We make things worse with our good natured but I'll advised attempt to feed the hungry. The more we feed them, the more children they make.

Not so.

 

[PredFan]

We make things worse with our good natured but I'll advised attempt to feed the hungry. The more we feed them, the more children they make.

Not so.

So.

 

[LaDexter]

We will NEVER use all the fresh water on this planet.

So sayeth an idiot with no clue or basis to comment initially...

 

[Maryland Patriot]

No, it is not.

You are an emotionally charged science invalid who has no basis to even comment on this issue. You do not understand the planet and the strains that are currently put on it. You just parrot some liar on Sundays and will never develop the intellectual basis to break out of that religious paper bag over your head.

It starts with fresh water, and then gets worse very rapidly.

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A swing and a miss! Religion has nothing to do with it. We will NEVER use all the fresh water on this planet.

actually if you think about it, we really cant use all the fresh water on the planet.
There should be exactly as much water on the planet today as there was a billion years ago. Its recycled, we are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank and if life on the planet lasts long enough, a billion years from now they will still be drinking the same water that we are today.
Unless we shoot the water into space, we will always have the same amount

 

[Unkotare]

We make things worse with our good natured but I'll advised attempt to feed the hungry. The more we feed them, the more children they make.

Not so.

So.

As standards of living improve, fertility rates decline so, no.

 

[LaDexter]

we are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank

LOL!!!

We are taking too much fresh water from nature, and that is causing fires in areas where there is no warming...

The larger the human population grows, the more it will consume, and the less for everything else. The Syrian civil war started over water, and in an area of the world that has religious idiots cheering on big families...