Do u think we will get overpopulated?
83493
No, that's why wars happen and massive epidemic viruses. Nature has its way of underpopulating, but if science continues keeping people that should die at their old stages from dying maybe someday we could get overpopulated. Therefore we should move to another planet...hehe
379997
No; too many people, not enough land and resources.
609960
The world's population is following a very standard growth curve, which every population of animal follows.  It begins with a lag phase, then exponential growth, and then, as the species begins to reach equilibrium with what their environment can support, begins to level off.  We are just starting to level off - world population growth is slowing.  It is projected that the world will top out at 9-11 billion people.  This will not be an overcrowded situation - humans currently occupy only a tiny fraction of the planet.  Doubling that will not be a serious problem.\n\nThat being said, obviously there are limits to how many of us earth can sustain.  The biggest problem right now is that the birth rate is way too high in places that cannot support their population.  This problem will correct itself - it has to.
1008148
Overpopulation, all problems can be tied into population increase...think about it.
769029
No, already projected during puerto rico's influx. The US Society would be overwhelmed .
444386
Nope.  As humans are inherently imperfect, our governments and economic systems will be also!
599507
I Wouldnt Doubt It\n\nThe Population Of The Earth Is About 6 Billion Now\nIf 1/3 Of The Population (2 Billion) \nHave 2 Children In The Next 5 Years\nThat Will Add 4 Billion To The Population\nExponentially Incredible\nThere Are Only So Many Resources Available\nEventually\nWe Will End Up Procreating Ourselves Out Of Existence
1089548
The earth is being destroyed by mankind. It won't be overpopulated but drained out by human mischieves. Our duty is to preserve peace and harmony. What a pity...the beautiful earth is a war-ridden ball.
256661
maybe we killed too many too soon ?
599602
if you kill too much of it will you be?
261554
If politicians are counting on this, they had better start packing up their offices now.\n\nThe truth is, right now the population pyramid is shaped like a fat person, with the largest amount of adults in the middle.  These are the baby boomer generation.  As they age, and become the single largest voting bloc in the history of the US, a lot of trends will change.  Boomers, generally, are not satisfied with status quo, in comsuming or in politics.  This is going to severly change the landscape of economy and government for the next thirty years.\n\nI jusr read these other posts.  How about some facts to support your paranoia?  This whole fat lazy bit is growing old, and seems a bit too much like you are being fed your own filth and believing it.
623808
Nature will take care of that problem. Once the Earth's resources are depleted and human population starts to wane then economies will crumble (a healthy economy is built around a growing population), famine and disease will be rampant. At least 80% of the human population will perish.\n\nNow aren't you glad you asked.
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Most systems, when left alone, will tend to come to a "steady state" or be at rest.  In the case of balancing the ecosystem, overpopulation is a situation that I tend to think would eventually be controlled by the environment.\n\nAs an example, consider bacteria and viruses for which not everyone is immune nor is there necessarily a vaccine.  The increase in population ensures: a) that there are more hosts for these agents to travel; and b) that the agent doesn't have that far to travel, so it does so quickly.  Epidemics have a way of balancing out overpopulation.\n\nIn some cases, people make the mistake of introducing some 'agents' (not necessarily viruses, but such as in a recent case with toads) into an environment in which they help control the population in one aspect, but then the agent itself overpopulates.  Eventually, as it runs out of food (unless it has several plentiful sources in the environment to which it's been transplanted) it too will experience a loss in population.
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I'm afraid you asked a loaded question.  I don't believe humanity *can* survive exponential growth of its population for very much longer.  I don't know if our species has years or decades remaining... but it seems unlikely we have centuries unless we make drastic changes.\n\nAs I look, right now, the world population, according to my source below, is 6,627,722,573.  \n\nI agree with what little I know about Albert Bartlett's views on population growth.  For years I (and many others) have said that unchecked growth is a grave danger.  We simply do not have the material resources of fuel (for transportation and electricity) and food -- and ultimately space -- for population to continue to grow indefinitely!\n\n'People, people, and more people' is the engine at the root of a great deal of what is wrong with the world, and is arguably responsible for a dwindling enjoyment of life on this planet -- Earth  is of limited size, after all.  \n\nTake *unchecked* population growth to its seemingly-absurd but perhaps inevitable conclusion -- we are so physically restricted that we can no longer even move.  Or maybe we run out of food long before then.  Or growing stress and intolerance has sparked a global war.  Or a new or mutated virus has destroyed hundreds of millions of people in a matter of months, thanks to our close quarters and constant global movement.\n\nIronically, it might be a virus that saves us -- or, at least those of us who survive.  Freed of the need to compete for food and whatever fuel generates our electricity, they would at least have *some* of the resources our ancestors did.  Of course, even those things may be scarce if that global conflict I mentioned sparked a nuclear war.\n\nBut besides all the doomsday scenarios that could happen, our quality of life must suffer -- must already be suffering -- from our incessant reproduction.  Unless we live in the ever-dwindling rural areas of the planet, we are increasingly bombarded by noise, rudeness, superficiality, the tick of the clock, and the intolerance of our ever-closer neighbors and highway "companions" (erroneously implying they are pleasant to be around).  The person in the next car or house probably feels the crunch of space and time just as we do, and stress is a growing problem.\n\nWhere there are more people there is more anxiety and fear, more intolerance of rudeness -- and more rudeness! -- more consumption, more noise, more constant construction and change, leading to increasing interruptions to our movement, and an increasing sense of instability... more stress (which is a catalyst for further reductions in many of the aforementioned areas)... and... less peace of mind, less fresh air, less reasonably-priced and readily available food (at some point), less awareness of nature (the sound of a stream having long been drowned out by the honk of the horn and the rumble of the engine; the chirp of a bird having been obscured by the chirp of the Nextel, and the violence-inspiring thump of the boom car)... I could go on and on.\n\nI believe we are causing our world to evolve (or at least change; evolution implies improvement) faster than we, ourselves, are evolving.  That strikes a dangerous chord in my mind.\n\nThis is to say nothing of the other species--plant and animal--we share the earth with.  There is a need for them, too, not to mention a birthright of survival for every animal on earth!  \n\nI'm not as sure as I once was that we are heading toward these terrible conclusions... population growth isn't the rule in every country of the world.  Indeed, there is a dwindling population in some places, and I wish I could say where, but I don't know.\n\nBut spend some time in a national park -- some real, quality time during which you *begin* to get a sense of what peace of mind is about, and how beautiful the *entire* planet once must have been -- and then tell me we don't have to pay close attention to the
669806
We are overpopulated. Our activities are having a major impact on the environment. Many species of plant and animal have been made extinct and their blood is on our hands. We are no longer a population.. we are an infestation.
820354
I'm in total agreement with you. it's the same for any country. over population will create problems with jobs. are system would not be able to support everyone in need of help.
978481
Barring a nuclear winter or other catastrophic event, we'll still be around, polluting, smoking, and drinking.  Humans are pretty hardy creatures, and have lived through plagues, Ice Ages, etc.  While we are using our resources at an exponential rate, I do think this will necessitate some of the newer technologies already in the works.  We'll use fossil fuels until we can't any more, but there's always other forms of energy.  Right now, its too expense to implement mass change across the globe, but soon we won't have a choice, and I can't fathom that we as people (who have been around for hundreds of thousands of years) would suddenly fail to adapt.  That's what we were meant to do- to populate this planet.  \n\nSo no, unless a catastrophe of unheard-of magnitude strikes us, we'll still be around.  People for centuries have said the end times are upon us.  I'm still waiting....