Earth - Over Populated

Gary L · 28-04-2009, 22:08

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?

icestar2 · 28-04-2009, 22:12

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Originally Posted by Gary L

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

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

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.

Charlie_Bubble · 28-04-2009, 23:10

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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?

Some say it's already overpopulated. By around 2040 the population is expected to go over 10 billion.

Education won't work. Ever noticed it's normally the less well educated people in western countries who have large numbers of children (Excluding those who do for religious beliefs) and people in 3rd world countries hardly have any education and rely on large families to look after them in their old age.

Make it law... been tried in China and found to work in some ways, but sociologically failed. Male children are highly prized. Females aren't and it's thought that familes that already have female children in them will have a higher than average rate of abortion or infant mortality. They also project a shortfall of over 30 million women in the country by 2020, which is predicted to result in social unrest.

Ramrod · 29-04-2009, 07:49

imo, governments don't want to decrease the birth rate as this impacts badly on the future ratio of taxpayers versus pensioners who use medical resources and require expensive care.

Julian · 29-04-2009, 08:28

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imo, governments don't want to decrease the birth rate as this impacts badly on the future ratio of taxpayers versus pensioners who use medical resources and require expensive care.

Hence the lower social classes pop kids out left, right and centre. They know they will get ruck loads of cash from the government for doing so.

LondonRoad · 29-04-2009, 08:37

We can't feed the current population so we are already over populated.

STONEISLAND · 29-04-2009, 08:50

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Originally Posted by Gary L

What would have to be done when it became a problem?

Stop buying mozie nets?

sherer · 29-04-2009, 09:40

Not really qualified to say if the world is over populated but living and working in London I do feel that the city itself is over populated. The transport system can't cope with the amount of people we have and you can barely walk down some train or underground stations at the rush hour.

I've often wondered what would happen if London said it was full up and tried to do something about it. Of course no one wants to do that as then businesses would move away and we would lose money.

Chicken · 29-04-2009, 10:34

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

Woolly One · 29-04-2009, 11:47

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

I think you'll find that is not that far from the truth. but the planet will do it itself, rather than require human interaction.

The Goldfish bowl theory works best - If you have 3 fish in a bowl, they will live quite happily. Introduce No. 4 and it might be a struggle but they will find a way around it. But when No's 5,6 & 7 are chucked in, not enough space so somethings got to give. Some of the fish will die, or maybe all of them - due to the overcrowding.

STONEISLAND · 29-04-2009, 11:50

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Originally Posted by Woolly One

I think you'll find that is not that far from the truth. but the planet will do it itself, rather than require human interaction.

The Goldfish bowl theory works best - If you have 3 fish in a bowl, they will live quite happily. Introduce No. 4 and it might be a struggle but they will find a way around it. But when No's 5,6 & 7 are chucked in, not enough space so somethings got to give. Some of the fish will die, or maybe all of them - due to the overcrowding.

No way I wondered why my fish kept dieing!

Jimmy-J · 29-04-2009, 13:15

Natures way of culling.

STONEISLAND · 29-04-2009, 13:19

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Natures way of culling.

You sure its not 'God' way?

**Hugh** · 29-04-2009, 13:21

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Originally Posted by Chicken

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

At this infection / death ratio, it should be over quite quickly (about 6 million years)

Jimmy-J · 29-04-2009, 13:29

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Originally Posted by STONEISLAND

You sure its not 'God' way?

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