Do you believe that we are now or will soon be overpopulated?

[sealybobo]

Population density and overpopulation are not the same thing, dumbass.

Point was less people equals happier people

 

[Meister]

Stay on the topic going forward

 

[sealybobo]

Stay on the topic going forward

It's a thread on if you THINK we are overpopulated or not. I pointed out that people in less populated places are happier. To me that suggests we are overpopulated. At least we are in the cities. And do people in rural areas want us to spread out and come to them? I doubt it. Then they'd be less happy.

Millennials are on the cusp of surpassing Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living adult generation, according to population projections from the U.S. Census Bureau. As of July 1, 2016 Millennials, whom we define as ages 20 to 35 numbered 71 million, and Boomers (ages 52 to 70) numbered 74 million. Millennials are expected to overtake Boomers in population in 2019 as their numbers swell to 73 million and Boomers decline to 72 million. Generation X (ages 36 to 51 in 2016) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.

Hopefully Millennials have less kids

14 Reasons Millennials are Having Fewer Babies

 

[Unkotare]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

 

[Unkotare]

More good news is that in the United States we have plenty of space and we have a plethora of natural resources. Some people might not know that even in countries thought of as very crowded there are still rural areas a great deal of undeveloped land and lots of places where you will not find many people at all. The most populated countries tend to have very big and densely populated cities. These are places that generate a great deal of economic activity, and there are lots and lots of very happy people there as well.

 

[sealybobo]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

 

[sealybobo]

More good news is that in the United States we have plenty of space and we have a plethora of natural resources. Some people might not know that even in countries thought of as very crowded there are still rural areas a great deal of undeveloped land and lots of places where you will not find many people at all. The most populated countries tend to have very big and densely populated cities. These are places that generate a great deal of economic activity, and there are lots and lots of very happy people there as well.

Sure if we want to pack them in but then there will be no more rural places.

People are 8 times happier in rural areas where population is low not high.

 

[Unkotare]

We couldn’t “pack in” all the rural spaces in the US if we tried. And of course we’re NOT trying. The US fell below replacement level fertility decades ago. Again, no need to panic over what was always a false crisis.

 

[Unkotare]

It’s funny that some yahoo can presume to declare what constitutes “a year’s worth” of natural resources and then shriek in terror when their own arbitrary limit is exceeded.


Of course those most likely to cling to a false crisis are unlikely to think things through.

 

[sealybobo]

It’s funny that some yahoo can presume to declare what constitutes “a year’s worth” of natural resources and then shriek in terror when their own arbitrary limit is exceeded.

Experts aka not you

 

[Likkmee]

Your pop reduction will be over 100 million.

 

[Slyhunter]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

 

[sealybobo]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

 

[sealybobo]

Your pop reduction will be over 100 million.

I hope so. I’d like to cut th population in half.

1. Abstinence
2. Abortion
3. War
4. People having fewer kids.

We no longer need 1 person to have ten kids. We need on couple to raise one engineer and on pe nurse who knows how to deal with old people with demintia

 

[Slyhunter]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

 

[sealybobo]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

I thought so

 

[sealybobo]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Prove what you just said is true

You first. You made the claim prove it's true. Otherwise it's bullshit.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We’re Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever
July 29 marks the point at which we start to consume more than the Earth can replenish. And this date is getting earlier each year.

Happy Overshoot Day unkotare. Last year I posted this on July 31st. This year Overshoot day falls 2 days sooner.

the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished.

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

The burden of this ecological debt is getting heavier. We started overconsuming resources back in the 1970s, and since then it’s gotten progressively worse. Over the last 20 years, Earth Overshoot Day has crept forward by more than two months. And this year, it falls on the earliest date yet.

Forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide timber and clear land for agriculture — two football fields’ worth of Amazon rainforest were cleared every minute in May. We are overexploiting water resources for industry and agriculture, and to provide drinking water for ever-expanding cities. And our addiction to fossil fuels means we are producing carbon emissions at levels that will push us further into dangerous temperature rises.

As with financial debt, we can only avoid the consequences for so long. The impact is already becoming frighteningly clear. Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Cities around the world, from Cape Town to Chennai, are running out of water supplies, and a landmark U.N. biodiversity report published in May said up to 1 million species could go extinct thanks to human actions.

While the consequences are likely to affect poorer nations more starkly, it’s the populations of richer nations that live further beyond their means, according to the Global Footprint Network. If everyone lived like people in the United States, for example, we would need five Earths. If we all consumed resources at the same rate as people in India, we would only need seven-tenths of a planet to meet our demands.

Earth Overshoot Day Shows We're Tearing Through Resources Faster Than Ever | HuffPost

Now, you prove it.

 

[sealybobo]

The bottom line is that the world is not overpopulated, and there is no need to panic about the future. Good news!

Then how do you explain this?

Humans have used a year’s worth of Earth’s resources in just seven months

Humans are using up the planet’s resources so quickly that people have used a year’s worth in just seven months, experts are warning.

And the rate at which we are consuming the Earth’s natural resources is still speeding up.

This year the annual date when people have caused a year’s worth of ecological damage – Earth Overshoot Day – comes two days earlier than last year.

Please don't tell me an inner city public school teacher like you is smarter than the experts. PLEASE!

bullshit liberal propaganda.

Ha!

 

[Papageorgio]

Ohh know!! We're gonna die! We're gonna die!!

 

[MarathonMike]

I doubt anyone can accurately determine what a year's worth of Earth resources are. But I do believe human population growth in 3rd world countries is a massive problem. I also believe humanitarian relief to 3rd world countries should always be tied to voluntary sterilization services.