Earth - Over Populated

Originally Posted by Product 13

There is no God, Just nature and a bunch of mentally ill humans. Nature owns all.

In your opinion...

Anyhoo, back on subject - wasn't there a fad for Malthusian predictions in the 70's, stating that we would all be starving due to over-population and inability to grow enough food by the late 20th Century?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Gary L

There's about 6.7 billion people on earth at the moment. what amount would it have to be to become a problem of there being too many?

What would have to be done when it became a problem?
educate people not to have too many children? make it law that you can't have any?

start world war 3 --that should trim things down a tad

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

start world war 3 --that should trim things down a tad

If we pick the wrong country to fight against. it could be all over in a few minutes

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Gary L

If we pick the wrong country to fight against. it could be all over in a few minutes

well best not mess with Belgium then

Yeah - those cheesy frites are deadly.

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by Chicken

Maybe they'll release a virus to wipe out half the popula...Hmmm..

They have!

AIDS (New World Order - Population control)

Gets out tin foil hat.

Originally Posted by Hom3r

They have!

AIDS (New World Order - Population control)

Gets out tin foil hat.

If only those pesky big pharma kids hadn't produced anti-retrovirals, the NWO would have gotten clean away with it......

[idi banashapan]

Originally Posted by icestar2

Hmmm reminds me of a film I watched a couple years ago called Fortress. The start of that movie was about a law about how many children you could have.

not fiction - see China

[icestar2]

Originally Posted by Bender

not fiction - see China

Well the film itself was but whats this about china ? is there a law there about how many children you are aloud to have ? tbh I had no idea.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Yep - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

[icestar2]

Originally Posted by Matt D

Yep - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

Wow, well you learn something new everyday. I never had any clue that it was even going on. I amagine that this would be the only way to stop over-population though in the long run. unless there was some mass war or some deadly disaster for the whole world.

[frogstamper]

It was interesting to read the other day that David Attenborough has become a patron of the "Optimum Population Trust", a body that campaigns to actively reduce world population.
One rather frightening fact he came out with was that since he began his television career 56 years ago the worlds population has tripled!! surely the planet and its resource's cannot continue to sustain such rises?
In the very near future, if not already, countries must begin to take this seriously, if you look at a graph of population growth over the last 250 years it was pretty steady until about halfway through the 20th century, then it exploded.
Of course no democratic government wants to touch this issue with a barge-poll, any sane person can see why, but how much longer can they ignore it?

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[icestar2]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

It was interesting to read the other day that David Attenborough has become a patron of the "Optimum Population Trust", a body that campaigns to actively reduce world population.
One rather frightening fact he came out with was that since he began his television career 56 years ago the worlds population has tripled!! surely the planet and its resource's cannot continue to sustain such rises?
In the very near future, if not already, countries must begin to take this seriously, if you look at a graph of population growth over the last 250 years it was pretty steady until about halfway through the 20th century, then it exploded.
Of course no democratic government wants to touch this issue with a barge-poll, any sane person can see why, but how much longer can they ignore it?

It is a thing that does need to be looked at and it is a scary thought as to what will be done if nothing is done soon. What you agree with limiting the amount of children you are allowed to have ? I dont know. I think its a fair idea but then who has the right to say who can give life.

I do think its very silly when I hear of family's with 10+ children. I personally wouldn't think you could give all of them children the care and attention thats needed.

Maybe these war's we are always fighting are humanity's own way of trying to control its population. Intresting thought lol.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

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So why has there been such an enormous jump in the developing world from the 50s on? What changed in the 50s?

[Jimmy-J]

Originally Posted by danielf

So why has there been such an enormous jump in the developing world from the 50s on? What changed in the 50s?

Elvis the bloody pelvis Presley and his gyrating hips!