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How do yall feel about the population of the town/city/state/country/world? And just for fun there's a poll, the question is: If you could reduce the population of the world via disease/magic, but you and your loved one's have the same chance of contracting the disease/magic as everybody else on the planet, would you?
Personally, i feel like there are too many people in this world. Stolen from wikipedia (yay):
The world's current agricultural production, if it were distributed evenly, would be sufficient to feed everyone living on the Earth today. However, many critics hold that, in the absence of other measures, simply feeding the world's population well would only make matters worse, natural growth will cause the population to grow to unsustainable levels, and will result directly in famines and deforestation and indirectly in pandemic disease and war.
Some other characteristics of overpopulation:
* People struggling to live under poor conditions
* Low birth rate due to the inability of mothers to get enough resources to sustain a baby from fertilization to birth
* Low life expectancy
* Low level of literacy
* High rate of unemployment in urban areas (leading to social problems)
* Insufficient arable land
* Little surplus food
* Poor diet with ill health and diet-deficiency diseases (e.g. rickets)
* Low Per Capita GDP
* Low level of capital formation
* Unhygienic living conditions for many
* Economically stretched government
* High crime from people who steal resources to survive
* Mass extinctions of plants and animals as habitats are used for farming and human settlements
* Decreasing human population towards equilibrium
* Inflationary pressures
* Increase in the dependency burden due to the greater number of younger people in the population
According to projections by the Population Division of the United Nations revised in 2004 [6], the population of the world will stabilize at 9.1 billion by 2050 due to demographic transition. The UN has consistently revised its population projections downwards over the last 10 years. Birth rates are now falling in most developing countries, while the population in many developed countries would also fall without immigration [7].
David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, predicts that population outcomes for the 22nd century range from 2 billion people (characterised as thriving in harmony with the environment), to 12 billion people (characterised as miserable and suffering a difficult life with limited resources and widespread famine). [8]
Personally, i feel like there are too many people in this world. Stolen from wikipedia (yay):
The world's current agricultural production, if it were distributed evenly, would be sufficient to feed everyone living on the Earth today. However, many critics hold that, in the absence of other measures, simply feeding the world's population well would only make matters worse, natural growth will cause the population to grow to unsustainable levels, and will result directly in famines and deforestation and indirectly in pandemic disease and war.
Some other characteristics of overpopulation:
* People struggling to live under poor conditions
* Low birth rate due to the inability of mothers to get enough resources to sustain a baby from fertilization to birth
* Low life expectancy
* Low level of literacy
* High rate of unemployment in urban areas (leading to social problems)
* Insufficient arable land
* Little surplus food
* Poor diet with ill health and diet-deficiency diseases (e.g. rickets)
* Low Per Capita GDP
* Low level of capital formation
* Unhygienic living conditions for many
* Economically stretched government
* High crime from people who steal resources to survive
* Mass extinctions of plants and animals as habitats are used for farming and human settlements
* Decreasing human population towards equilibrium
* Inflationary pressures
* Increase in the dependency burden due to the greater number of younger people in the population
According to projections by the Population Division of the United Nations revised in 2004 [6], the population of the world will stabilize at 9.1 billion by 2050 due to demographic transition. The UN has consistently revised its population projections downwards over the last 10 years. Birth rates are now falling in most developing countries, while the population in many developed countries would also fall without immigration [7].
David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, predicts that population outcomes for the 22nd century range from 2 billion people (characterised as thriving in harmony with the environment), to 12 billion people (characterised as miserable and suffering a difficult life with limited resources and widespread famine). [8]
