Thread: Human Overpopulation

This is a graph of human population up to the year 2000




The population kept on increasing in the last 10 years and will continue to increase.
The world population was 3 billion in 1960 and doubled to 6 billion by 2000.
There are now nearly 7 billion of us.

Everyone of us needs food, water, energy and shelter.
The resources available on the planet to supply these things are limited. A large number of people already lack these things.

Using resources also degrades the planet.
One reason for action is to reduce impact we have on other animals, species, ecosystems, wilderness and nature.
Even if you don't care about the environment at all you must understand the other reason for action.
We are dependent on the planet for our own survival.

Possible solutions may be:

• Reducing human population
• Reducing human population growth
• Less energy-intensive practices and expectiations
• Environmental restoration
• Improvements in productivity of resource use

I don't think food production and the availability of fresh water can increase at the same rate as human reproduction.
My personal view is that we do need to reduce the human population growth rate and also change the way we live so that we have a smaller impact in terms of resources and on the environment. Not easy things to do.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the issue and how to deal with it.

well some countries already regulate population growth, or, try to at least. IE: china, cant have more then 2 kids (and if you do they arent supported by the government).

i don't see how this would ever be enforced though. some religions strictly prohibit birth control etc (see: catholicism)

i think recycling and re-using natural resources like water would be a good focus. like if sewage water/urine could be turned back in to drinkable water =p haha ok i got that idea from enders game sue me

edit: wars seem to regulate population =p havent had a real good war in a while

edit2: didnt know i could even post in the brain stew section

I am From Pakistan. Here population is increasing rapidly. The main cause which i think is most of the people here are illiterate and do not have much awareness about such thing.Most of the people are living in rural areas now a days The Government started a plan to aware the people about this agenda.
Pakistan's estimated population in 2010 is over 170 million making it the world's sixth most-populous country, behind Brazil and ahead of Russia. During 1950-2008, Pakistan's urban population expanded over sevenfold, while the total population increased by over fourfold. In the past, the country's population had a relatively high growth rate that has, however, been moderated by declining fertility and birth rates. The population growth rate now stands at 1.6%

Very Good topic to discuss. Over Population is the mother of all problems.

Solution: Birth Control if applicable (contraceptives...etc but definitely no to abortion)

The problem is discipline. People like pleasure without even thinking what would be the lifelong consequences of their actions. Women get pregnant because they need short-term physical satisfaction. Then they realize they are living in hell after it. And it keeps repeating all over again. This is very true to very poor people who have nothing and nothing to do all night except with what they have.

If people were properly educated and grown mature, I guess it would not be a problem.

Reducing human population should be on every politics discusion since its the source of all problems.
Unemployement, hunger, inflation based on the asumption that this is a consecuence of scarcity), low quality education, low wages, and a long etc.
I think it should be mandatory to have 1 kid per couple at most.
Doing whatever you might think of to reduce human footprint is useless if human population continues to grow.
The sad part of this is that it is an unpopular measure among many people, and its unlikely that any measure to stop it is going to be taken.
I just hope to die before people starts eating each other, or living under opressive military states since they are going to be the only means of control of a large and hungry population.

There's alot of chinese that have come here to japan just so they could have kids.

This can be linked to the other thread regarding homosexuals.

If we had more homosexuals we would not have such a problem with over population.

The human population growth will be reduced anyway. The growth starts expotentially until it reaches the carrying capacity of the population. In a few decades, the graph that greigor linked will get a sigmoid curve.