I suspect when the Earth has 10 billion people the standard of living for people will be as diverse as it is today, ranging.from billionaires to paupers
hey, i feel a song there . . . i'll work on it - :guitar:
I suspect when the Earth has 10 billion people the standard of living for people will be as diverse as it is today, ranging.from billionaires to paupers
hey, i feel a song there . . . i'll work on it - :guitar:
Yes, the world is seriously overpopulated and getting worse.
Gerland et al. 2014, Science, 346(6206), 234-237, DOI: 10.1126/science.1257469
"The world population is unlikely to stop growing this century. There is an 80% probability that world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100... Much of the increase is expected to happen in Africa, in part due to higher fertility rates and a recent slowdown in the pace of fertility decline."
Currently we've been able to expand at the expense of species other than our own. E.G. Walsh et al. 2003, Nature, 422(6932), 611-614:
"Rapidly expanding human populations have devastated gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) habitats". "The next decade will see our closest relatives pushed to the brink of extinction".
Eventually our expansion will start to cause us issues however. Issues related to exhaustion of finite resources (phosphorus, fossil fuels etc) and those related to disease transmission rates, climate change, loss of animal species that we feed on or that form essential parts of the ecosystems that we rely on etc.
One key point to get across is that the expansion of the human population is almost completely without benefit and is 100% unnecessary. I don't believe in the garden of Eden but if there were such a thing, you have it here on Earth... and you're destroying it, needlessly.
Far more on this can be found at my essay at the following link, on a related topic;
http://homoresponse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-detriment-of-heterosexuality.html
P.S. I haven't watched the video in the OP yet but plan to.
yes
with wastes of space? YESSS!!!!!1!
It depends on what you believe is being threatened. Too many people? It appears the world population will level out at 11 billion by 2100. Too many poor? There is evidence the world is growing richer for everyone. There is even evidence the gap between rich and poor is narrowing in some countries.
What I foresee some people objecting to in this rosy scenario is the issue of ecology or "saving the planet". They will post charts showing how the vast majority of the planet surface is dedicated to providing for human beings with very little planet surface left to support a growing population. Yes, extinctions will continue to grow as mankind grows, but, as I pointed out, the population will eventually level out.
In order to support 11 billion people at $10 bucks a day for the vast majority, there needs to be a greater supply of cheap energy. I'm sorry, but renewables just don't cut it. You must have fossil fuels alongside nuclear and hydrogen. Wind and solar are costly and a drop in the bucket.
All the hysteria about global warming and the draconian cutbacks in fossil fuel use that its proponents demand will kill and impoverish
vastly more people than any "disasters" that "climate change" will ever bring about.
Much of my claims are found in the following film:
" The Overpopulation Myth" http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+over+population+myth&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=99A585D82076B7D7568899A585D82076B7D75688
When fear instead of God's ability becomes the motivation and modus operandi then all kinds of disasters seem viable.
In a hypothetical scenario, you are placed in a small windowless cage. You are only allowed out for a few hours a week in to a larger cage, with some windows. You are provided with bland food and clothes and will live past 50.All of the points your article brings up are moot. Will mankind be able to feed itself and clothe itself and have average lifespans over 50 when the population is 11 billion? Yes. This makes your other points meaningless.
Every single soul on the earth could live on an acre of land in the State of Texas and there would still be land left over.:
Every single soul on the earth could live on an acre of land in the State of Texas and there would still be land left over. Could it be that there's still more room left elsewhere on the earth? :duh: