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Deepthought
EDIT: To TheMediator; the population is increasing
all over the world
. The reason why it's so big in Africa is probably because they don't have the same protection as the richer parts of the world.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate
and then realize he has a valid point. Notice where the top 10, even 20 countries are located? And their growth compared to the rest of the world.
Afghanistan 3.85%
Canada 0.90%
Bad math is bad.
Liberia has the highest growth % on that chart, with 4.5%
U.S.A. however, has 0.97.
BUT
4.5% of Liberia's population :177 975
0.97% of America's population: 2 981 809.1
About 16 times the higher for America.
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Hyperspacerebel
6.784 billion people in the world.
148,940,000 square km.
Assuming 50% of earth's landmass is habitable (very generous assumption), that's ~91 people per square km. That's roughly the population density of CA, slightly over half the population density of Delaware, and slightly over 1/3 the population density of the UK.
As far as numbers are concerned,
there is no population problem
.
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Hyperspacerebel
6.784 billion people in the world.
148,940,000 square km.
Assuming 50% of earth's landmass is habitable (very generous assumption), that's ~91 people per square km. That's roughly the population density of CA, slightly over half the population density of Delaware, and slightly over 1/3 the population density of the UK.
As far as numbers are concerned,
there is no population problem
.
Just because there isn't a problem
yet
doesn't mean there
wont
be one.
Well, yeah places like Canada are actually underpopulated (lol, 34 million people, and it has a larger land mass than the US, which has ...over 300million :P ) but then we have China and other places.
Preventing
an overpopulation problem now is better than desperately trying to fix that problem when it spins out of control.
What's overpopulation? 500 people per square km? 1000? if rates continue as they are, we won't 500 for at least a couple centuries. No population control we do now will have any effect 500 years from now.
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90% of everyone there, do you normally speak from your...
Not going there, stupid filters.
Anyways, there is not one country in the world with AIDS rate higher than 30%. There are four countries higher than 20% and that is it. The USA has more people with AIDS than 3 of those 4 of them COMBINED!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Just to put some overall numbers to this:
2007 Stats
Region People w/ Aids New cases prevalence Deaths in 2007
Sub-Saharan Africa 22.0 mil 1.9 mil 5.0% 1.5 mil
South/Southeast Asia 4.2 mil 330,000 0.3% 340,000
Eastern Europe/Central Asia 1.5 mil 110,000 0.8% 58,000
Latin America 1.7 mil 140,000 0.5% 63,000
North America 1.2 mil 54,000 0.6% 23,000
East Asia 740,000 52,000 0.1% 40,000
Western/Central Europe 730,000 27,000 0.3% 8,000
Middle East/North Africa 380,000 40,000 0.3% 27,000
Caribbean 230,000 20,000 1.1% 14,000
Oceania 74,000 13,000 0.4% 1,000
Global 32.9 mil 2.7 mil 0.8% 2.0 mil
Post by
Roxanna
I think the best way to control the world's population is to limit families . Like a "2 kids per family". Although with an exception for adopted children.
This rule should be applied worldwide, even in places with no overpopuation problems.
If I were ruler of the world, I'd do that
. (Which is never gonna happen, but one can dream, can't they?)
What what happen if by some incident the family had a 3rd child? Take it away from a seemingly good moraled family, take it to a Foster Home for it to be "reclycled"? Kill him/her? Seriously. You cant help it sometimes.
I remember reading a book in grade school dealing with this exact issue. It was about some future where families could only have 2 kids, and the book was about 1 family who had a 3rd child but kept him hidden all the time so he wouldn't be killed off.
I remember it had a sad ending; another 3rd child (and his friend) was killed off in some kind of "parade of extra kids", and the main kid had to move away from his family, change his name, and start a new life. Can't remember the title though.
It's a complicated issue that's been explored in many films and books, I imagine. I don't think there's an easy fix for overpopulation.
My captcha says 'see5x'. Hmm.
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Hyperspacerebel
What's overpopulation? 500 people per square km? 1000? if rates continue as they are, we won't 500 for at least a couple centuries. No population control we do now will have any effect 500 years from now.
When I use the word overpopulation, I define it as...
There being too many people for society/economy/the earth to support.
So you'd rather just to not do anything because you think whatever we, as humans try to do to help the earth will have no effect on the future of our planet and race?
I'd rather not destroy human freedom now, in order to
maybe
make people 500 years from now have nicer lives.
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Hyperspacerebel
I remember reading a book in grade school dealing with this exact issue. It was about some future where families could only have 2 kids, and the book was about 1 family who had a 3rd child but kept him hidden all the time so he wouldn't be killed off.
I remember it had a sad ending; another 3rd child (and his friend) was killed off in some kind of "parade of extra kids", and the main kid had to move away from his family, change his name, and start a new life. Can't remember the title though.
It's a complicated issue that's been explored in many films and books, I imagine. I don't think there's an easy fix for overpopulation.
My captcha says 'see5x'. Hmm.
Read the short story
2BR02B
by Kurt Vonnegut. It hits the nail on the head.
My favorite quote from it: "The painter pondered the mournful puzzle of life demanding to be born and, once born, demanding to be fruitful ... to multiply and to live as long as possible—to do all that on a very small planet that would have to last forever."
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