Re: Over Population / Unsustable Population Growth
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:59 am
Read the book of Revelation, its all there. 

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Current Demographic Trends Leading to Excessive Population Growth
Current population dynamics would produce excessive population growth if maintained over the long run, says the report of the United Nations Secretary-General on world demographic trends (document E/CN.9/2011/6). Through a series of projections, the report highlights the importance of declining fertility for attaining a population that is sustainable. The high scenario, which produces a world population of nearly 30 billion in 2300, even though its fertility remains mostly between 2.2 and 2.3 children per woman, validates the imperative of continuing to reduce fertility to replacement level or below in all countries whose fertility is still above replacement level. Efforts to reduce fertility rapidly are especially needed in the fast-growing countries of Africa and Asia. In both major areas, but particularly in Africa, current fertility levels, if maintained, would lead to unsustainable numbers of people in the long run. Even countries with intermediate fertility need to reduce it to replacement level or below if they wish to avert continuous population increases to unsustainable levels, and low fertility countries need to achieve comparatively small increases in fertility to avert rapid reductions of the population.
The world population growth rate must slow down significantly to avoid reaching unsustainable levels, says a new UN report.
MEZZANINE wrote:I dont care when or where Eugenics began, it's a fundamentally flawed concept and can never work long term
MEZZANINE wrote:@ KMA,
The UN you quote has itself this year admitted/reported that population growth is unsustainable, you can read it in detail direct from the UN or a summarised view from the BBC
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/pop990.doc.htm
Current Demographic Trends Leading to Excessive Population Growth
Current population dynamics would produce excessive population growth if maintained over the long run, says the report of the United Nations Secretary-General on world demographic trends (document E/CN.9/2011/6). Through a series of projections, the report highlights the importance of declining fertility for attaining a population that is sustainable. The high scenario, which produces a world population of nearly 30 billion in 2300, even though its fertility remains mostly between 2.2 and 2.3 children per woman, validates the imperative of continuing to reduce fertility to replacement level or below in all countries whose fertility is still above replacement level. Efforts to reduce fertility rapidly are especially needed in the fast-growing countries of Africa and Asia. In both major areas, but particularly in Africa, current fertility levels, if maintained, would lead to unsustainable numbers of people in the long run. Even countries with intermediate fertility need to reduce it to replacement level or below if they wish to avert continuous population increases to unsustainable levels, and low fertility countries need to achieve comparatively small increases in fertility to avert rapid reductions of the population.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12338901
The world population growth rate must slow down significantly to avoid reaching unsustainable levels, says a new UN report.
I already posted links to the ever increasing population numbers and accelerating growth rate in my first post.
Your example of land in Texas is absurd, for a start a large portion is desert or to arid for people to farm or live on, even if the land could support the people, even if someone was willing and able to pay for the land and to build the infrastructure, and even it you were physically able to move the people from the countries that are at the highest risk of famine from overpopulation, do you really think the USA will accept in 10s of millions of refugees from these countries ???
You cant just take land mass and divide by the number of people because not all land can support human life/civilisation, you cant even take the land that can support people and divide it by number of people for obvious issues of nationalism, politics, money, movement etc.
But even if you could measure in these simplistic ways a continuous and accelerating population growth would still be unsustainable, it would simply push the point of reaching critical further into the future.
MEZZANINE wrote:As for climate change, are you insane ? Really, of course the climate is changing, it's been changing since the planet was born and will continue to change even if all people were removed tomorrow. Man-made climate change is another matter, personally I believe we contribute to it but are not the primary cause and could not stop it happening even if we wanted to.
Climate change is a linked subject, the current trend is one of global warming but TBH it would be just as bad if it was cooling, either way means changes to the weather, some area's where people currently live will be made uninhabitable, other area's might become habitable, but you cant just pick up people from one place and put them in ready made civilisations elsewhere.