Overpopulation Debate
The cluster centers on debates about human overpopulation, its effects on resources, environment, and sustainability, with arguments for reducing population growth contrasted against views that population is stabilizing or not the core issue.
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you may want to watch this video and check your fear of overpopulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyzBoHo5EI
not a single comment about overpopulation?
You seem to not realize those are problems for us, human virus, and not the planet problems. Those so called problems are natures way of trying to balance things. If you cut hunger and make a breakthrough in healthcare you will immediately accelerate population growth, and in effect accelerate pollution and energy use.Earth is unsustainable in the long run. No one is willing to accept euthanasia, birth limits, basically efforts to maintain population caps. People might say its a good idea oth
Good? We need less population, not more...
The argument is that more people is better. The Earth carries 8 billion people today, headed toward 10-11 billion by 2100. Why are there so many people? Unintended pregnancies. Less unintended pregnancies (empowered women, family planning, etc) constrains the pipeline of aggregate suffering (because the evidence is clear we're not going to do anything about it current state; why would we presume something would be done future state?) and human impact (less people = reduced aggregate impact
don't badger the man,the world (and Earth) is much better off with fewer people,it is called quorum-sensing in science, many organisms stop reproducing then they overpopulate, humanity should do the same, if it is a philosophy that is followed, so much better, everyone is better off
We can't keep making more people and expect the world to not change.
That's kind of like saying that the majority of people who get cancer are old people, so we can reduce cancer rates by dying young.The issue isn't strictly overpopulation. Its overpopulation combined with the amount of consumption. You can solve this either by reducing the population, or reducing consumption, or both. For a lot of people, there are compelling ethical, economical, and personal reasons for wanting to have children or at least avoiding restricting other people's d
This wont be anywhere near fixed, if the worlds population keep going up. We need some event to cull the population down a bit!
Only if we stop producing so many people. (Good luck with that.)