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How will the Earth end?
Davidtheo:
Yes that is what they show - but if you look at the first graph the population growth rates are (approximately):
11% in the first 50 years
29% in the next 50 years
31%
44%
139%
So in the last 50 years the population has increased by more than 139%
If the curve continues (and there is no reason to assume that it won't) how many people are going to be on the planet in 2050, 2100, 2150 ?
Currently deforestation is on a massive scale because people in the rainforest regions need to fight poverty by growing crops and there is a shortage of land able to support crops.
The rainforests supply a huge proportion of oxygen into the atmosphere and clean out CO2 - what is going to do that when all the trees have gone?
If population continues to grow and the desertification continues in the way it is at the moment where is the food growing to be grown. It is all very well saying that the world's population could fit into Utah - but if they all moved there what would they eat and drink - I hope they like cactus stew!
-Carol Haynes (December 15, 2008, 01:17 PM)
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If the would is not over populated now it will be soon and at the rate we are cutting down rainforests to make farming land, and turning Farming land into housing this is not a good thing. On top of this we are putting more cars on the roads. Right Now over Europe, Asia and the USA there are large clouds of poison from cars, Power Planets and other factories WE are the ones that are going to kill ourselves and the earth.
To solve the over population problem countries need to start bring in one child policies
Deozaan:
To solve the over population problem countries need to start bring in one child policies
-Davidtheo (December 17, 2008, 02:12 AM)
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David, you live in China, a country where they actually do enforce a one-child policy--to the extent of killing any child unfortunate enough to come after the first.
That's called genocide.
There is no overpopulation problem. There is a lot of room for all of us.
f0dder:
There is no overpopulation problem. There is a lot of room for all of us.-Deozaan (December 17, 2008, 03:23 AM)
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No there isn't - and there definitely isn't resources enough for all of us, which is the major problem.
Deozaan:
There is no overpopulation problem. There is a lot of room for all of us.-Deozaan (December 17, 2008, 03:23 AM)
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No there isn't - and there definitely isn't resources enough for all of us, which is the major problem.
-f0dder (December 17, 2008, 03:29 AM)
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Okay, so it turns into a "Nuh uh!" "Uh huh!" battle... :-\
Yes there is. And there are tons of resources for all of us.
f0dder:
Oil production has pretty much reached it's peak, and will start to go downhill from now - and demands are going up (and remember that oil isn't just used for gasoline, but also for plastic materials etc). China (and other places) are beginning to have problems getting clean drinking water (using up water faster than the natural reservoirs fill up) - and this obviously affects agriculture as well, irrigation and all. The rainforest is being cut down at an alarming rate, farmers are poisoning the lands with nasty pesticides as well, as fatiguing the ground because of too aggressive farming. Several areas have had nasty fish poisoning.
So I seriously do believe that we're going to see some serious resource problems within long, especially since the previously underdeveloped countries are raising their living standards, and want to reap the same lifestyle benefits that we've had in the western countries for a long time. Perhaps disaster won't strike during my lifetime, at least in this part of the world, but we live in a globalized world... if things in Africa or China or India become too bad, there's a chance it's going to affect my sorry ass as well.
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