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Is the world overpopulated?

str8line

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This is an interesting article. We will reach a predicted population of 8 billion this November from 5.5 billion in 1994.

www.bbc.com

How many people can Earth handle?

This year, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion. To mark the occasion, BBC Future takes a look at one of the most controversial issues of our time.
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"Estimates vary, but we're expected to reach "peak human" around 2070 or 2080, at which point there will be between 9.4 billion and 10.4 billion people on the planet. It may be a slow process – if we reach 10.4 billion, the UN expects the population to remain at this level for two decades – but eventually after this the population is projected to decline."

I liked that part of the article if that's really the peak.

Musk thinks there's a population collapse and I don't think he's far off if you look at it in a long term perspective.

I have nothing to back this up but I feel the educated people are having less and less kids while the uneducated have many. You could swap out educated with career driven too.
 
str8line said:
This is an interesting article. We will reach a predicted population of 8 billion this November from 5.5 billion in 1994.
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that depends on the lifestyles we are willing to accommodate and how well we share resources. We produce enough food now to feed well over 10 billion, but a lot goes to farm animals or is wasted.
 
Yes
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
No, not even close.

There's a resource allocation and greed problem.
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LOL. Mao killed ~50 million. Stalin killed ~20 million. It seems that socialists do indeed have the answer when it comes to making populations smaller. We do not have either a greed, resource allocation, or over population problem.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
LOL. Mao killed ~50 million. Stalin killed ~20 million. It seems that socialists do indeed have the answer when it comes to making populations smaller. We do not have either a greed, resource allocation, or over population problem.
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Lmao
 
From a resource perspective the world could feed a whole bunch more people. About a third of the food produced in the world goes to waste. If you just captured that you would be able to feed the 900 million hungry people in the world plus an extra 3billion people. Advances in science will continue to make it possible to feed more and more people in a sustainable way.

From a my comfort level perspective, I've been to Walmart lately and can tell you there is definitely an overpopulation problem.
 
Is the world overpopulated? No.
Is Utah overpopulated? Yes.

We already are running out of water, cannot see the mountains for half the year due to air pollution, and rarely are the canyons not parking lots. Ever try to go anywhere north/south in between American Fork and Bountiful between 3:00-7:00? I-15 is a freaking nightmare. Should we talk about the toxic bomb we’re sitting on with the GSL trying up and exposing a toxic lake bed?

I remember a few years back sitting in during a Saratoga Springs meeting. Their city planner was bragging about a new marina the city had built on Utah Lake… at that same time, the lake had been closed due to a deadly algae bloom. What good does it serve to build marinas on a lake that’s toxic to humans for most of the summer?

And with Utah’s population set to double in the next 50 or so years? Yikes. So I know someone is coming out ahead with all of this development and growth. Not sure it’s your avg Joe though. Personally, I really miss the Utah of the mid 90s when there were spaces in between the cities, the GSL actually existed so we still got lake effect snow, and the canyons were just usable.
 
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