Is the world overpopulated, or are we just underdeveloped?

Man 14? I don't know about that....i could see being off by 2 or 3 billion...but double what we think? Hmm that would be a real shock. Would be great if we had something to prove it.

 

I think that we could support way more than 14 billion people on this earth. We are just overpopulated if we wish to continue our lifestyles the way we are. The way we farm, live, commute, consume etc etc would have to change, but we could support a loooot more peoples

 

Yes, we're overpopulated for our current lifestyles, and we need to take a serious look at the issues around this!

 

OOHHh I just cant resist.
America is overpoplulated by underdeveloped people called republicans...

 

Overpopulated, too many people everywhere.

 

Overpopulated by sheep
Underdeveloped by pigs.

 

http://smallplanet.org/

 

Can't see how people with insight could deny that certain places on earth are overpopulated by humans (and other animals that have to sustain us, like sheep, cows, pigs and chickens) and that it takes a toll on practically the whole earth.

 

I read that we could feed a world ten times our current population. Over population advocates see poverty and say there are too many people. The problem is not population but rather the distribution of world resources. 80% percent of resources consumed in the USA come from Third world sectors. As humans, we need to be willing to share, even if this means we have to alter our grossly materialist consumerism. The POPE once said, "At the end of the world it will be the poor south that will raise up to judge us ------an interesting thought.

 

of course we're overpopulated but i will rephrase the question, is the world overpopulated with scumbags. yes oh yes, we are very overpopulated with lowlife scum. you see it really wouldn't be such a big deal this overpopulation but unfortunately we are overpopulated with the worst of the worst, lowlife trash, scum degenerate drug addicts, sex addicts, people not teaching their children, people beating raping their children. this world is going to hell in a handbasket for a reason. we are immoral people to the highest degree. of course morality is just an idea anyway.

 

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The Earth is overpopulated with cement, not people.

 

We are not overpopulated, especially when you see that across the globe the birth rates are plummeting. America and Europe have birth rates below the 2 replacement rate. China and other parts of Asia do as well. Even the countries that are still above replacement rate are falling fast.

 

We may be exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity by 60%, making up the balance by consuming resources needed by other living things and future generations.
Just one example is the correlation between population growth, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and temperature. There are many others; decline in global fisheries, degradation & loss of agricultural topsoil, global loss of biodiversity and biomass. All of these are associated with overpopulation, none of these are even remotely sustainable.
Malthus was right.

 

i'm pretty sure crowding out habitat for species diversity is a pretty good definician for too blinkin many of us.
i think the only devolopment that would counteract that would be for all of us to be born really teeny tiny and stay that way the rest of our lives.

speedbump gonna hurt, even if a scattered few of something resembling human somehow survives it.

i'd love to be born a hundred or so years after the ecopocalyps. but i'll give odds if i were, i'd have pointy ears and a tail.
hope we'll still have thumbs and brains and can read.

 

the crowding out of species diversity is a fact, and one the jeopardizes the future of our own.
development is not a question of quantity, but of focus and direction.
but even if we did everything else right, we are still at peril from our own fertility.

 

I think we need to change the way we think of water - it's been "free" for too long and we have taken clean water far for granted. Where does much of our clean water go? Down the damn toilet with 1890's toilet and sewage technology. There has GOT to be a better way to handle disposing of 8 ounces of sterile urine other than flushing it "away" with two gallons of clean potable water. But, look at the infrastructure and who makes money off of it - there's a lot of money in sewage treatment and big companies involved, like Haliburton, that have zero reason to change as long as there money to be made.

 

Overpopulation is a problem because technological advance isn't widespread enough and surely, not developed enough to the point tof basically erasing poverty from Earth. No, there's no conspiracy holding the magic key for everyone's happiness in their filthy pockets, the problem is that technological infrastructures need resources, tons of them. Only a progressing and widespread economical growth combined with the abolishment of intellectual property can give the chance to a lot of countries to solve their most dire issues, especially if technological progress manages to make a few more jumps in the next few decades.