Overpopulation

[hells_mishap]

 

Maybe eventually new laws will be passed where couples are only allowed a maximum of 3 or so children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they already do that in india and china with 1 a couple in china and 2 in india

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You're right about China... I'm Indian and unaware of such a law. Even though I support any way of controlling the populatation(apart from genocide). I've read about how the experts beieve India will have the highest population in the world one day. I don't know about that really.. since the male/female ratio in India is really un even.. I don't know the exact numbers. But it has something to do with the large Hindu population there.. and according to their customs and culture it's preferable to have boys.. so large numbers of infant girls are abondoned or aborted. Sickening.. yes.. but it may effect the population of a country that has a population of 1 billion and increasing.

[Ddrmaster7]

i had this discusion in clas 2 days ago and the teacher said that the estimatet number of people who could live on earth could go to 50 billion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe the Earth can actually hold 50 billion people; but that's saying that billions and billions of people won't be able to survive due to lack of necessary food and water.

[BlueLancer]

yea china has a 1-child policy in urban areas. rural families can still have many children i believe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They can't, but it is so loosely enforced that practically everybody has more than one child in the countryside (in big cities it is hard to get away with it). They still prefer males because they are of actual use because they can work in the fields for long periods of time and have more chances of earning (honest) money. They just bribe the local officials who are just as poor as the citizens.

[menot]

 

yea china has a 1-child policy in urban areas. rural families can still have many children i believe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They can't, but it is so loosely enforced that practically everybody has more than one child in the countryside (in big cities it is hard to get away with it). They still prefer males because they are of actual use because they can work in the fields for long periods of time and have more chances of earning (honest) money. They just bribe the local officials who are just as poor as the citizens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah yes i thought it was that they wernt allowed, but because of the "remoteness" of large areas of china, they can easily get away with it. i just heard differently recently, so i was unsure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

regarding both india and china's preference for males: well i suppose that limits the potential population growth rate in a way.

[Satenza]

There is a conspiracy about a New World Order which has members in Govenrment positions throuhgout the world even today. They will cut down the population of the world to 500Million apparently. By mass genocide I assume.

[runemetsa]

There is a conspiracy about a New World Order which has members in Govenrment positions throuhgout the world even today. They will cut down the population of the world to 500Million apparently. By mass genocide I assume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really? If that's true, they are totally fanatics. I mean, how would it be even possible to kill that much people without killing yourself at the same time?

 

 

 

[:insert 'shakes head'- smiley here:]

[____]

 

i know wars are bad, but if you think about how many more people would be on earth if there was no wars lol

 

 

 

I'd say there would be a lot less people to begin with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Considering that war is the most effective way for dominant ancient civilisations to collect supplies and impose their ideologies in such a way as to ensure a more efficient allocation of resources. Wars are also excellent catalysts for technological development.

War is also a decent population control, or was. Thousands would die in them and bam, the victory has even more space per person than they were expecting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT worked perfectly. Now it's just, send in 20K, wipe out the opposition, lose under 1k and you're done. Just isn't working as well as it used to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I mean that. Or the governments of the world could just start executing all criminals :ohnoes:

[rocketman089]

 

There is a conspiracy about a New World Order which has members in Govenrment positions throuhgout the world even today. They will cut down the population of the world to 500Million apparently. By mass genocide I assume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really? If that's true, they are totally fanatics. I mean, how would it be even possible to kill that much people without killing yourself at the same time?

 

 

 

[:insert 'shakes head'- smiley here:]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nukes, baby!

[supercanon14]

god made the earth to live on not the moon and the reasen why over pop. is because people(like mexicans etc. no affence) dont know when 18 kids is enought

[darkmage099]

god made the earth to live on not the moon and the reasen why over pop. is because people(like mexicans etc. no affence) dont know when 18 kids is enought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did you get the idea that God restricted us to just one place? Aren't you just a bit racist there?

[Galvanos]

i think we need to bring back the black death and spanish flu.

[mad4u689]

The estimate of 8 billion that you quote as a carrying capacity of the earth is not completely valid. Carrying capacity estimates vary greatly from scientist to scientist - a good reason for this is because, are you talking about the carrying capacity for people with an American standard of living or a developing nation's standard of living?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For those of you who are saying that "nature will work itself out," keep in mind that one way in which nature works itself out is through the extinction of a species that is no longer well adapted to its environment.

[darkforaster]

 

Given sufficient population density and strain on resources, the problem will fix itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relax. Some countries have aging populations that are going to shrink very quickly due to slowing birth rates to make up for those people who refuse to use contraception.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exactly. Europe's poplulation is expected to shrink by what, 50%, over the next 50 years? Perhaps that figure's a bit high, but it'll be a pretty big decrease.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I figure either war, disease or the return of Christ will keep us from overpopulating the earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what will Christ do? kill us all? if he does that, then the entire christian beliefs will be overthrown. Do not think that will happen. probably war. maybe israel will start something up. Not diseases though. But then again. i suppose as the human race develops so will the diseases. i supposes it is possible. Either way the probleme will fix itself. either we'll die from an ice-age due to global warming, servere weather etc. The world will adgust.

[BlueLancer]

 

god made the earth to live on not the moon and the reasen why over pop. is because people(like mexicans etc. no affence) dont know when 18 kids is enought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did you get the idea that God restricted us to just one place? Aren't you just a bit racist there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I take my liberty of hating martians and calling them 'maggers'. The way they sneeze peeling rust at me in a crowded elevator is untolerable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But if "God" really didn't restrict us, maybe we WILL move to other planets after this one becomes too crowded to live on. We would need to bring quite a lot of technology with us to make the living conditions bearable though.

[kamykazee]

Actually they plan an expedition to Mars quite soon,so we will have the first human to step on Mars.Most probably within 2027 we will already have made colonies on the Moon.

[darkforaster]

though i suppose that if the worst does the worst then we will have to live on another planet etc. in fact the other place in our solar system that would be the most suitable is the moon. Mars and past it get too cold, mercury and venus gets to hot. The moon maybe small, but it will have to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue lancer said something about having to use technology to live on other planet and that is correct. Luckily because we know of so many compounds and mixtures. it will not be that hard to make artificial water etc. Though i suppose the space flu, the fact that many people will not be able to go to space and the fact that the gravity everywhere else is not that good for us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mars would not be a good place to go to. it has no magnetic field. (there is a difference between gravity and magnetism). causing solar wind and UV rays to be allowed straight onto the atmosphere. Our magnetic field transfers these solar winds and UV rays onto the north pole. weakening the ozone layer, therefore ity gets through. This would have happened to all the ozone layer if we did not have a magnetic field. too risky on mars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will stick to the moon really. after that we just have to overcrowd. It is really inevitable for every creature, including apes etc.

[darkforaster]

 

i had this discusion in clas 2 days ago and the teacher said that the estimatet number of people who could live on earth could go to 50 billion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe the Earth can actually hold 50 billion people; but that's saying that billions and billions of people won't be able to survive due to lack of necessary food and water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

food maybe but water? i do not think so. Due to the polar ice caps melting there will be around 1 meter rise of coastline. Keeping this in mind. water will be accessible for a long amount of time. For a lot of people.

[BlueTear]

The primary reason why Mars is favoured over something like the moon is its size, the moon just isn't big enough to maintain any semblance of an atmosphere (and any issues with UV rays experienced on Mars, that has at least some atmosphere, is going to be a lot worse on the moon, which for all practical purposes has none). The only real advantage the moon has is its proximity to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And water and water we can actually drink are two separate things. A higher coastline is no guarantee for a continious, sufficient, supply of fresh water.

[zaquierming]

Meh, China's been doin' it for years.