So do certain groups still don't believe in overpopulation etc? The day in numbers: 300 million http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/17/numbers.population/ According to the U.S. Census Bureau the population of the U.S. will surpass the 300 million mark on Tuesday. It is the only industrialized nation in the world whose population is rising substantially. 3: The United States is the world's third largest population after China and India, both of whose populations are also rising. 7: The number of people who are born every second in the U.S. 31: The number of migrants who enter the U.S. every second. 34 million: The number of foreign-born people living in the U.S. in 2004 compared with just 9.7 million in 1967. 2043: The year the Census Bureau predicts the U.S. population will reach 400 million. 1.5 million: The number of people living now living in Phoenix, Arizona, compared with under half a million 40 years ago. The country has witnessed huge demographic changes, with a shift in population from the Northwest and Midwest to the West and South. 50 percent: Half of the U.S. population lives in suburbs compared with 38 per cent in the 1970s. 50 percent: The number of married couple households has fallen to 50 percent from 75 percent in 1967. 26 percent: The percentage of people who live alone as young people marry later and older people who are divorced or widowed don't remarry. 2.3kg: The amount of trash each American produces every day -- about five times more than a person in a developing country. 25 percent: The amount of the world's energy consumed by the U.S. The country is also the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. 1,000: The number of plants and animals listed as endangered species because of loss of habitat due to land development. 3: The number of times more water each American uses than the world average. The U.S. has also lost half of its wetlands to urban development and agriculture.
This is the one that's scary.......there's WAY too many people in the world. Very soon, mother nature will push back.
I suspect there are two ways in which this (i.e. population self-regulation by our species) is already happening: wars and homosexuality. I know both have been around for a long time, but they should become more widespread as we struggle with the consequences of overcrowding and resource depletion
Too many people going underground, Too many reaching for a piece of cake. Too many people pulled and pushed around, Too many waiting for that lucky break. Science and technology keep pushing up the current carrying capacity of the Earth's resources by compromising future sustainability. Oil, CO2, draining aquifers faster than they refill, over fertilization and salt build up in irrigated lands, slash and burn farming in the rain forest, unfunded pensions and entitilement programs Sleep tight kiddies.
I don't know if we actually support the number we have now on the Earth. 850 million people are malnourished or starving.
i would guess that's more about resource allocation than lack of resources. if the worldwide standard of living was equal, i'm guessing that standard would be sufficient for living (we would go down, the 850 million would go up), but maybe it wouldn't. i assume this means people who enter for work and then leave (in which case what does that have to do with population)? otherwise that would be 2.5 million people per day and we would be china by now.
I haven't eaten in a week and am starving to death... Oh well... guess I'll take up gay sex to take my mind off things. Seriously... what?
I think we could feed everyone . . . but that may mean Golf Courses and other stuff like that may have to go . . .. OH THE HUMANITY!!! Rocket RIver
i'm saying this is not the best indicator of overpopulation. are you suggesting the US birth rate is too high??? looks to me like we're growing because of immigration, legal and otherwise, primarily. when someone immigrates here, that doesn't put a new strain on the earth.
Let's not send this one to D&D, but if you accept that homosexuality is genetic in nature, then a possible theory is that it arises as a macro-level evolutionary mechanism for population control. Sounds feasible to me.. I'm no expert, though
