Room for one more? World population to reach 7 BILLION in next few days

Originally posted by randomname
if your one of those people who think the world is over populated and there should be some sort of population control, do your cause a favour and off yourself and take some of your fellow depopulationists with you.

Again, this nonsense.

1. The world is not overpopulated, some places in the world are. Slovakia is not one of them, IMHO.

2. No need to off yourself, just decide to not have (many) children.

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How many tmes do i have to say this:

There are too many people in certain areas.... over-population is here in the UK for example.... this is one of the smallest Islands yet it has more people on it than Australia or Canada so you think about what you say before airing your views... you ned to think not just about the USA or other under-inhabited Ares but the rest of the World too....

It is over-populated in Britain!!! Yes it is... dont tell me it isnt..... and its rising even more...

As for the charts i see that Chinas population is predicted to fall by 2050.. why is this? Because of the 2 children per couple rule?

I see Nigeria's is predicted to explode!!

12 years to add 1billion yet the forecast is for it to take 14 years to add another 1billion.. how does that work? If there are more people producing babies then surely it wil take less time to add another billion not more!!

Originally posted by blah yada

It's the people who control the resources.

That's a very valid point, however the math on population projections doesn't lie.Over population will become a massive problem.It has been empirically studied for at least 50 years and has been tried and tested.The error margins are negligible. It's beyond the realm of mere opinion.

Also consider that the United Nations estimated it would only cost $33 billion a year to completely SOLVE world hunger. Seriously... and that's not a typo, I did mean WORLD hunger. $33 billion a year. The US spends $20.2 BILLION A YEAR ON AIR CONDITIONING TROOPS TENTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

If that's true, then shame on all of us in the developed world. I do find it hard to take the UN seriously though.By those numbers, if half the worlds population chipped in 10 bucks per annum, world hunger would not exist.10 lousy bucks!

I'm not saying overpopulation won't at some point be a problem.. my whole thing is, who gets appointed to play god? who should make those decisions for us, how we handle such a thing as overpopulation?

should it be these people?... Secretive Rich Cabal Met To Discuss Population Control


I certainly don't think that anybody should be able to tell me how many kids to have. People like Ted Turner saying we should have a one-child policy like China when he himself has 5 kids.. psht.

I tend to share John Lennon's view on overpopulation...

This looks like it's going to get far, far, FAR worse before it gets better, for the human race.

On another note, quite refreshing that the Daily Fail managed to get most of the particulars of the case right.

Still, the ignorant, cynical yet oddly humorous comments of that reading sect of the British public oft make for entertaining reading.

Originally posted by blah yada

It's the people who control the resources.

That's a very valid point, however the math on population projections doesn't lie.Over population will become a massive problem.It has been empirically studied for at least 50 years and has been tried and tested.The error margins are negligible. It's beyond the realm of mere opinion.

Also consider that the United Nations estimated it would only cost $33 billion a year to completely SOLVE world hunger. Seriously... and that's not a typo, I did mean WORLD hunger. $33 billion a year. The US spends $20.2 BILLION A YEAR ON AIR CONDITIONING TROOPS TENTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

If that's true, then shame on all of us in the developed world. I do find it hard to take the UN seriously though.By those numbers, if half the worlds population chipped in 10 bucks per annum, world hunger would not exist.10 lousy bucks!

Money won't fix it because the lack of food in those regions where people are starving is caused by conflict for the most part. In fact it's the warlords controlling the food to control the people. Another fact is that there is more easily obtained food in the world today than at anytime in human history.

Originally posted by TruthxIsxInxThexMist
12 years to add 1billion yet the forecast is for it to take 14 years to add another 1billion.. how does that work? If there are more people producing babies then surely it wil take less time to add another billion not more!![

You forgot to factor in all the baby boomers kicking the bucket in the next 20 or so years

Yeah great… let’s cram everyone in to Texas (like one poster suggested) and we can all live on each others’ toes. So long as we technically have just enough room and food for everyone then it’s ok, right?

You pro-population people really get on my nerves. Wide open spaces are not only essential for the preservation of wildlife and foliage, but are essential for the human spirit. This planet is not here to be filled to the brim with humans. What exactly is so evil about maintaining sensible population levels anyway? In my opinion, if the Mayan 2012 Prophecy means anything, it probably signifies the approximate time that we reach criticial mass and Mother Earth decides to interject.

I don’t support draconian measures of population control. But - *incoming politically incorrect comment* - we could start by not artificially propping up the population numbers of Africa and other Third World countries. They have by far the fastest growing populations on the planet – how is that logical? I don’t propose state-initiated birth limits, but I do think that 90% of the individual minds on this planet could and should be more responsible about how many children they have (but not Europeans, who are committing suicide with low birth rates).

England is hugely overpopulated – fact! And it’s not pleasant I can tell you. Even the parts of my country that are considered ‘rural’ are small, suffer unreasonable traffic flow and EXPENSIVE due to lack of supply and huge demand.

Go and live in a heavily populated area before jumping on your high-horse in support of unlimited global population growth.

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Population rise isnt going to help matters either... the cost of living keeps increasing so how is this ever increasing population ging to help those who are in need of food yet cant afford it?

I was quite disturbed to hear that in the UK up to 2/3rds of pregnancies were not planned by the parents. We also have the highest percentage of teenage mothers in Europe. It turns out that kids are not getting the right sex education from an early age. Seems crazy that we could actually tackle a huge problem in the UK with proper education. I don't understand why any government has not tackled this, it can't be just down to our prudish nature with regards to talking about sex.

Maybe its about that time that the human race started to invest in tech for space travel, colonising other planets etc before our numbers really do become an issue?

Over-population is a lie. Maybe 20 billion people is over-populated, but not 10 billion. Do you people have any idea how huge the Earth is? They're giving you the illusion of overpopulation (which you can't see anyway), and everybody is screaming over-population because they seen a couple youtube videos, and all of a sudden think there experts on the subject. Chill.

Originally posted by Vandettas
Over-population is a lie. Maybe 20 billion people is over-populated, but not 10 billion. Do you people have any idea how huge the Earth is? They're giving you the illusion of overpopulation (which you can't see anyway), and everybody is screaming over-population because they seen a couple youtube videos, and all of a sudden think there experts on the subject. Chill.

Obviously you dont live in the UK or specificaly 'ENGLAND' where it is over-populated!!

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So basically your saying just you because you live in a small area thats populated by a lot of people, the entire UK is populated? You can't say "You obviously don't live in the UK" because of that. You can't live in 100 different places at the same time.

Wouldn't it be foolish if I said Chicago is over-populated because my neighborhood has 4 kids in each house? Yes, because that doesn't mean the next neighborhood is going to be the same.

Ladies, my Mother told me that if you place an asprin between your knees and firmly hold it in place you will not get pregnant.
But you never know when that next great scientist, or artist, or composer is going to come along so I say , make room, make friends and take care of each other. There's enough of us now to get this message across.

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You want all the trees to be knocked down and open spaces to be filled up with houses and people?

Where will we get our little bit of fresh air from then? It's already very poisonous air we breath!!

What about our water? That's contaminated already in most parts... the water which is clean will become less so.

What about our food? Same thing... it will become less and more expensive!!

In some parts of England we now have illegals living in garden sheds which are ilegally put up to house these illegals... they live in dirty sheds... more chance of spreading diseases this way and this is what will happen when the population reaches too much and too much germs/viruses will be about!!

Maybe the real issue isn't that Earth is overpopulated, but that certain parts are. This still requires strong measures to solve.

Originally posted by Cythraul
Maybe the real issue isn't that Earth is overpopulated, but that certain parts are. This still requires strong measures to solve.

That's the ticket!

Problem is that we like to populate areas that are small, like coastal cities. We need to move inland, there is no such as "not enough space" on earth for 7 billion, or 10 billion.

Hell just look at the country I live in Canada, second largest in the world, yet empty. 33 Million people live here, and it's bloody empty.

It's fine folks, we just need to learn how to build proper cities and not put them in places that are prone to natural disasters and space limitations.

~Keeper

This is certainly a topic that really needs to be discussed more often. I put it right up there with environmental destruction, and resource depletion.

reply to post by TruthxIsxInxThexMist


Again, your talking about specific spaces and things, but not anything as a whole.

Overpopulation is concerned with resources (of which food is only the most basic), not space. A desert can be almost empty, yet overpopulated. A city situated on an abundant land can be packed with people, yet not overpopulated.