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Overpopulation a threat to Earth
Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of the Earth. This is caused by a number of factors – reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources etc.
The effects of overpopulation can include the depletion of resources, environmental deterioration, and prevalence of famines and diseases.
Human overpopulation is among the most pressing environmental issues, silently aggravating global warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources such as fresh water, arable land and fossil fuels.
Most contemporary estimates for the carrying capacity of the Earth under existing conditions are between four billion and 16 billion. Overpopulation may not have already occurred. Nevertheless, the rapid recent increase in population is causing some concern.
China has the highest population in the world, encompassing 1.2 billion or over twenty-one percent or world’s population. China is sure to face serious social and economic problems associated with overpopulation in the years to come.
Under population is a situation whereby the size of the population is small in relation to available resources of the country. It is a situation where size of population is below the equilibrium. Australia is an under populated country. It is the world’s smallest continent and sixth largest country. With the lowest population density in the world, only 2 people per square kilometer, it has a population of 23.13 million and a land area of 7.692 million square kilometers.
England has become the most overcrowded major country in Europe. With a population of 451 people per kilometere the European country Vatican City has the smallest population.
What are the negative effects of overpopulation growth? Some negative effects are insecurity, crime, unemployment, inequitable sharing of resources and increased pollution of the environment, which lead to subsequent problems such as clashes and fighting, dwindling resources, poor sanitation and drug abuse.
Demographic transition (DT) refers to the transition from high birth rate and death rate to lower birth and death rates, as a country develops from a pre-industrialized to an industrialized economic system.
Overpopulation is a crisis that potentially stands alongside climate changes as one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. Despite this, there is little in the way of education or a dialogue relating to the issue, particularly in schools. Education should extend into global consequences of overpopulation, which directly correlates to climate change. Large nations like China and India continue to develop their industrial capacities. They now rank as two of the largest contributors to emission in the world, alongside with USA.
About 97 percent of the scientific community agrees that human activities are changing global temperatures. Lager population may speed these changes up, especially if more is not done to reduce individual carbon footprints on a wide scale. The effect of overpopulation on the world wildlife is also a major issue. As demand for land grows, so too does the destruction of natural habitats, such as forests.
D. Weeratunga Nugegoda
21 Comments on "Overpopulation a threat to Earth"
makati1 on Sun, 4th Jun 2017 8:51 pm
Mother Nature takes care of the population problem. Humans only pretend they have a choice. All animals breed to the limits of their environment and then die off until the environment can sustain the number. Humans are animals, subject tot the same cycles.
As for the climate, well, humans did have a choice, but they chose the wrong road. Now we await our fate and it IS coming. Not one we will want, but then, physics obeys the real laws, not man-made ideas called ‘laws’.
Prep to ease the coming pain and enjoy the show. It will prove to be the greatest show on earth, ever. Pass the popcorn.
DerHundistlos on Sun, 4th Jun 2017 9:05 pm
Interview with James Stavridis, retired four-star admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Q: Your biggest warning is about environmental degradation — both in terms of climate change and, more specifically, ocean pollution and destruction of fisheries etc. What needs to be done now to turn things around?
JS: Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement is a huge blow. Add to this, the Trump administration’s approach to the environment is that it is to be exploited to the maximum for monetary gain- conservation and preservation are the enemies of business. Voluntary, international cooperation on emissions control is the way forward, and now that is in question. There are a lot of international organizations that work on fisheries, scientific monitoring, deal with pollution and the like, but they are mostly under the United Nations umbrella. And strengthening them under Trump will never happen. Just the opposite, the administration in conjunction with the congress is working feverishly to eliminate 100 years of environmental progress.
In the U.S., we need better interagency cooperation: all cabinet-level and other organizations — Treasury, Justice Department, Coast Guard — working together to think through our regulatory regimes, share data, and reach a common understanding of how to go after lawbreakers. Oceans are the biggest crime scene in the world.
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But above all, we need better public-private cooperation. You cannot solve this globally without working with the companies that move 95 percent of the world’s good across the ocean highway. It would be like developing a cyber-defense strategy without talking to Microsoft or Google. People call the Amazon the “lungs of the earth,” but it’s really the oceans. And if we cannot count on sustainable oceans, our future is bleak.
onlooker on Sun, 4th Jun 2017 9:09 pm
Yes, the planet now stands on the edge of a massive die-off of humans. Our ingenuity and a uniquely concentrated energy source FF has allowed us to postpone the inevitable balance that all living creatures must adhere to within their environment. Well, now the dis-balance is too great and FF will not be plentiful anymore, so die off will be the consequence
onlooker on Sun, 4th Jun 2017 9:21 pm
Oh and pass the popcorn
Sissyfuss on Sun, 4th Jun 2017 11:19 pm
“Overpopulation is a threat to the Earth.”
Wow, I wonder if Kenz is aware of this.
deadlykillerbeaz on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 7:22 am
Everybody talks about over-population, but nobody does anything about it.
bug on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 9:20 am
Nobody will do shot about overpopulation, and it has been talked about to death.
Recently I saw an old Mary Tyler Moore episode were they talked about overpopulation, 40some years ago and nothing changes. I got snipped and never had any.
Mak is correct, mother nature will finally fix it.
Davy on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 10:56 am
Well, what do you think can be done about overpopulation? All there is left is talk. Effective action is draconian and in today’s pussyfoot world draconian is politically incorrect. Abortions, birth control, and enforced procreation polices had a time decades ago when they could have been effective but no more. Liberal dumbass talk of educating poor women is likewise too late. Conservative dumbass of policies that promote overpopulation combined with tax deductible guilt donations are absurd. Church and NGO’s try to talk up the dignity of life as they practice policies that dehumanize people in overpopulation. Nations practice aid programs according to economics of subsidizing crooked contractors on the dole. Moral hazard with population is basically denial based and the usual extend and pretend we see elsewhere.
Nature is the only truth when it comes to overpopulation. The outcome of natural population adjustments will not be set by human standards. Deaths will happen randomly and methodically as they will. Some natural deaths will be slow attrition and other times large death shocks. This will not be a smooth curve. Fairness will not be part of this process although we are now entering a time when the rich west and the usual 3rd world poor are vulnerable together. Rich white people die the same way poor colored ones do. All we need is an economic shock that destroys the social safety net in the rich west and we will see real 3rd world pain and suffering in the 1st world.
The best we can do is accept this process and reject the talk as talk. This death process is going to be part of the fabric of late term civilization. It is necessary as in a requirement of a natural adjusting process. Honest science tells us this but we refuse to listen because our emotions find it hard to except. It is the political and ideological interpretation of honest science that the truth gets lost in. We have spiritual leaders preaching large populations as God’s will. We have economists telling us abstract notions of demographic bulges and growth requirements as reasons for more people. We have dumbasses who tell us if we eat less meat and more rice we can put another 2-3BIL at the table.
In the meantime we are adding people as a multitude of problems multiply. This makes any solutions elsewhere increasingly difficult. We are in the vicinity to great changes and for the worse. Mankind has never had such large populations in unsustainability. We are clearly in overshoot and it is that “butterfly flap” that will start the hurricane of death. Call me doomer and call me nutter but that is just more talk. Science is telling us this. History has multiple examples. We have a society that is incapably of dealing with bad news of this scope and magnitude. So don’t get too upset because this is just the way it is.
As an individual there are many things you can do. Just don’t think as an individual you can make a difference with the big picture. Random acts of kindness are wonderful but even helping out someone with donations of time or money is futile in the big picture. More are on the way until you are drowning in blood and guts like doctors after a particularly bloody civil war battle.
Dooma on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 1:18 am
Which rocket surgeon wrote this? There is a particular reason why Australia has a low population density. We happen to be the driest inhabited continent. Most of the people cling to the Eastern seaboard. China has no worries as their wealthy continue to move here (and Canada) and raise property prices to obscene levels.
GregT on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 2:06 am
Overpopulation a threat to Earth
As long as the humans continue to exploit other sources of energy other than natural sunlight and photosynthesis, the overpopulation crisis will continue to grow. Every single day that we continue to find more source of unnatural energy, the consequences will continue to become more dire.
Stupid humans.
dooma on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 2:29 am
Bloody stupid humans, Greg (shakes head).
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 3:29 am
Which rocket surgeon wrote this? There is a particular reason why Australia has a low population density. We happen to be the driest inhabited continent. Most of the people cling to the Eastern seaboard. China has no worries as their wealthy continue to move here (and Canada) and raise property prices to obscene levels.
Two former British colonies Australia and Canada welcoming their new Chinese overlords.
Although Australia is still a white majority country, these are the songs Australia send to the Euro-Vision song contest:
2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0EhhZWXTng (Malaysian)
2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EG_Jtw4OyU (Korean)
2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiXEMYUqa3w (Aboriginal)
Australia and Canada will remain colonies for ever, not enough sense of identity to defend itself, where the Chinese have an identity that is thousands of years old.
New Zealand same story: gradually taken over by China.
In Britain, thousands of British girls were sexually exploited and now even directly killed in Manchester. Reaction? Nothing. Dead. The Muslims can have the joint.
And then there is America. The so-called minorities are smelling their chance. Here Mexican-supremacist Jorge Ramos gleefully talking about “white-supremacy”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40pHmGwLkeU
It is “us” against “them”. One thing is certain, after the 19th British and American 20th century, there will be no third Anglo century, although we will still be talking English, just like Europe continued to learn Latin, centuries after the demise of the Roman empire.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 3:36 am
As long as the humans continue to exploit other sources of energy other than natural sunlight and photosynthesis, the overpopulation crisis will continue to grow. Every single day that we continue to find more source of unnatural energy, the consequences will continue to become more dire.
Stupid humans.
Thanks Greg for your wise words. Now don’t forget to switch off your iMac before you go to bed. And have you checked the oil level of your truck?
Davy on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 5:26 am
“Thanks Greg for your wise words. Now don’t forget to switch off your iMac before you go to bed. And have you checked the oil level of your truck?”
Cloggie you forgot to ask him about his boat and airplane. Don’t forget to ask him how is time was in Hawaii a few years back. I wonder if he was reading a climate change book laying out in the Hawaiian sun? He was probably laying there thinking how disgusting the Americans are and how brutal the Europeans are.
Davy on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:00 am
Cloggie for all your racist talk against my country you should read this article. IMA, you are being particularly nonracist by building out that renewable future for all those nonnative Dutch that will be living there by the time you transition. Think of all those happy brown faces.
“Mass Immigration & The Looming Disappearance Of The Dutch Population”
http://tinyurl.com/y9gh7a7t
“The cumulative effect of immigration became visible in the data after 10 years in 1980. The total population in the Netherlands grew according to the official CBS data (green line) much faster than the native population calculated by Cerberus (blue line). The native Dutch population reached a peak around 2015 at 15 million people, while the total number of inhabitants according to the CBS was 17 million and growing. The Dutch society will stay more or less stable with 18 million until 2060, the final year of the CBS projection. Cerberus on the other hand shows that in 2015 the Dutch population started to decline rapidly and in 2060 there will be 12 million Dutch left while at the end of the century there will only be 9 million native Dutch. The Dutch natives will become a minority. Due to demographic inertia it takes a long period before changes in fertility and migration are felt. We remind the reader that the Dutch fertility rate started to drop in the sixties and went below the point of replacement in 1973. Since then it will have taken more than 42 years before the Dutch native population starts to decline. The inevitable replacement of the people of Europe at the end of this century is already set in motion and we believe that after 2030 this process is irreversible. We use Cerberus to calculate how many migrants are needed to keep the Dutch population stable at 18 million. We input into Cerberus the 1950 population and, starting in 1971, added 15%, 20% and 25% immigration-related growth. Our model showed that the population stabilized with a 25% extra growth, that is about 45 thousand immigrants annually, around 18 million people, which overlaps with the CBS projection. Cerberus proves that the Netherlands needs 45 thousand immigrants to meet the official projections of the CBS. The CBS data is the basis for governmental planning. The Dutch planners keep the mass-immigration unchanged for the foreseeable future instead of anticipating a sharp drop in population. Apparently, the Dutch establishment opts for the replacement of the Dutch society.”
“In 2060 50% of the growth in the Netherlands will be non-Western newborns (orange) and immigrants (red), and around 2070 50% of all newborns (orange) are non-native Dutch. From there it takes a further 25 years before the natives are a minority. The Cerberus projections are very optimistic as they assume the native fertility rate at 1.66. According to our separate calculation the real current native-Dutch fertility rate is much lower and close to 1.5. Cerberus shows that the next decades are crucial for the survival of the Dutch population. In 2060 we will cross the Rubicon and reach the point of no return, the Dutch will be inevitably replaced with a non-Western society. But in 2035, 17 years from now, the total growth of the non-Dutch population in the Netherlands will already be a shocking 42%. Measures to increase the fertility are rather counterproductive and will probably only increase the fertility rate of non-Western immigrants. It is said that in the seventies and eighties immigrant families with 6 kids were able to live on the child benefit. Since the demographic decline is observable in all Western countries, we are in for Europeans being gradually replaced by peoples from Africa or South Asia. We are now at the eleventh hour and if we do not put an immediate stop to all immigration, the Dutch society will vanish into thin air.”
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:25 am
Yeah, yeah, extrapolate current trends all you want Davy and in one breath call me a “racist” (useless American ZOG word, just like “class enemy” in the USSR) and gloat about the (alleged) demise of the Dutch people in 2070, a direct result of enforced membership of that ZOG empire of yours, but I would not bet on it. Stiff resistance is developing against the demise, both in Europe and America.
And we in Western Europe are lucky to have a non-PC Eastern European and Russian, not to mention Ukrainian hinterland, that doesn’t dream about giving its lands away to third worlders, no matter how much Washington subsidiaries in Brussels threaten that they should.
Apparently, the Dutch establishment opts for the replacement of the Dutch society.
US c*ck suckers all. But the Moscow-oriented Eastern European establishment went down the drain, four years after Gorbachev became Soviet leader.
http://touristinromania.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ceausescu-executie.jpg
And it won’t be different with the Western European stadtholders of the US empire, thanks to Trump.
Muslim terrorist attacks, quietly supported by the majority of Muslim invaders, even if they pretend otherwise if presented with a microphone, are rapidly increasing in frequency and vehemency. Good, let them make themselves impossible. These idiots can’t wait to take over, although they have nowhere the required numbers nor means to do so. Turkey shoot is next, pun intended.
It has been peaceful for far too long. That ZOG-empire was the worst disaster in European history, not to mention American history itself. But that is almost over. You have been letting yourself taken by the nose by Soros and Apneaman types for far too long. European-Americans are going to initiate the counter-revolution and we Europeans are going to finish it off for you, just like in 1776.
Davy on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:37 am
LOL, cloggie gets some of his own medicine and doesn’t like the taste. See you have as bad or worse existential issues in Europe and Holland but you rarely acknowledge them and instead point your finger over here.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:41 am
LOL, cloggie gets some of his own medicine and doesn’t like the taste. See you have as bad or worse existential issues in Europe and Holland but you rarely acknowledge them and instead point your finger over here.
I am more pro-American then you are, where you still have to make up your mind between loyalty towards your European-American heritage or loyalty towards the US empire.
You can’t have it both, not in the long run. And a choice will soon be enforced upon you and you will have to choose between “carriers projecting power in the South China Sea” or the “deplorables”. It will be a life-and-death decision.
Davy on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:59 am
“loyalty towards the US empire.”
Lol, sounding and acting makati, cloggie. You like to put words in my mouth when you get caught in a debate trap. I am a doomer and I am planning for the end of globalization and the US (ex) empire is part of that. I have no issues with my ancestry. I am not a racist. If I bash Europe it is only in response to your US bashing. You are an extremist anti-American pretty much like makati but you are a nice guy with manners. Makati is a dumbass and an asshole.
I have no issues with being American. I am very upset with DC politics and the horrible American foreign policy. I want Americans to come home and we can retreat to within our borders and prepare for the collapse of globalization. Too bad that won’t happen like it should but that is what I want. What I do on this board is take extremist and put them through the wringer to get the dirty water out and clean up the dirt they are full of.
Cloggie, you live in a fantasy world of what is coming and I live in the here and now of a slow collapse process. You talk fantasy about Euro Empires. I talk about localism of a collapsed global world. You have all kinds of conspiracy theories in your arsenal and most of them are half-baked intellectually dubious agenda driven failures. I like what you contribute on new renewable technology. That is some great stuff. Keep it up. I like you too even though you are twisted and goofy.
Dooma on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 5:03 pm
Yes you wooden shoe-wearing wanker, China does have an identity. There is NO loyalty to it’s polluted, overcrowded homeland though. The name of the game is to flee to any country that has clean living conditions. They won’t move to your neck of the woods because the native tounge they would have to learn sounds like two baboons talking and is just too hard to learn. Now go finger a dyke.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 5:32 pm
They won’t move to your neck of the woods because the native tounge they would have to learn sounds like two baboons talking and is just too hard to learn.
Really? We have 70,000 Chinese here, they don’t mix with the Dutch population (or vice versa), they bother nobody and their mafia only shoot each other, as it should be.
And indeed they don’t like to learn Dutch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwhaqBy3OZU
But apparently I pissed you off.
Do you want to talk about it, Dooma?
Are you from Australia… mate?
I was told by your most senior politician that he fears that Australia will become a Chinese province one day. You share that opinion? I would be interested to know.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-australias-dangerous-ally-11858