Why do we make overpopulation worse?
467366
'I'm interested in everything, except political correctness, modern music and uncool people. I tell it like it is and for me truth is Number One.'\n\n'Nuff said!
3901
it is the survival of the species. gal n guys are created to make sure that mankind don't become extint on the earth. so all are created to have as much sex as possible with as many diffirent people as they can. so that they can make as many babies as possible. but there is a mis calculation in the natural process we had over produced. but any how as happened in Japan the population is shrinking now. it could be that the natural process is working.
116534
Pro-reduce overpopulation\nCon-It is morally wrong in the eyes of God
412362
I would have to agree with Bacteria Boy. Population is kept in check by diseases for example at our time right now AIDS is the one that slow down population explosions around the world. Also, if we practice population control like having only a small amount of children and practicing safe sex by using protection and adoption we can slow down population growth. It has to be done at a global scale to even make a difference because of population explosions that occur even after population zero.
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.
390628
Allowing people who whine about "overpopulation" to start helping out by letting them commit suicide.\n\nThere's plenty of space still left here on earth.\n\nYou could take all 6 billion people, give them 1/4 acre lot in Texas and still have room left over.  Do the math.
591207
I've also heard of studies similar to those you're referring to; I agree 100% w/ you that high population density is a pretty feasible reason for homosexuality and violence, these may well be nature's "control mechanisms" for avoiding LOCAL overpopulation. As far as the whole world being overpopulated, I don't agree w/ you.... food production nowadays, for example, could feed more than 100% of the world's population adequately if equally spread among all human beings; furthermore, global birth rates are rapidly declining, which could actually lead to global UNDERpopulation just a few centuries from now.
471202
Very bad...I sonetimes wonder if we have methods of indirect populatin control....attacks..diseases..cause their are only so many resources.....for so long...\n\nAnd with the rate of growth..its going to be interesting in 30 years..
215828
Why would you want to reduce population?  That means making our species begin to die off.  I don't think there are any pretty ways to do it: war, forced sterilization, draconian restrictions on child birth, mandated abortions, and propaganda indoctrination campaigns.  Those are you viable solutions, and they all suck.
623623
Well. the song of songs seems to put forth there is more to sex than making babies. \n\nYou can still have a moral society with out abortion, divorce, gay marriage, and Std's and still use birth control.\n\nGod wants us to be good stewards, and having more kids than we can take care of is not very moral either. \n\nWe do not live in an Era where the earth is empty, people have been fruitful and multiplied. Living n a urban structure means the need for a lot of kids is lessened. \n\nYour arguement is weak!\n\nbirth control = abortion, std, gay marriage, and divorce!?!?!?
9976
they help the world from being overpopulated
136425
They can kill off plants or animals that other animals compete with causing an overpopulation of that species. Or they can introduce a new species into a previously stable ecosystem. The new species may have no competition in the new environment and may overpopulate or it may eat another species and wipe it out.
59772
Because people are omnivorous, which means we still have a natural instinct towards hunting. Just leaving all the little aminals alone would screw up the ecosystem. They don't overpopulate because there is something hunting them. The game wardens are actually very strict about watching herd size and don't let people wipe out anything. And because it's challenging if done correctly.
36664
It's our nature, over population happens here and there and we have to get rid of it so we all go nuts and start wars which will thin out the people.  We are just animals with brains that can develop things, like big bombs and other destructive weapons.  We're not really as civilized as we want to think.  If we allow the world to continue future generations will look back on our part of history as Barbaric just like we look back at other civilizations the same way.
1053803
Let's bring kids into the world that we can't afford to support so that they can start life out at a disadvantage.  Let's make a kid together just because we find each other "hot" so that in a few years we find out we're completely uncompatible and leave our kid with a broken family.  Let's get all kind of nasty disease.  What a great idea!!!
596690
The population tends to increase faster than the food supply.\n\nIn general, at least with humans, the population increases exponentially while the food supply increases linearly leading to shortage/hunger.
179650
No, but I do think that people should RESTRICT the number of children they have. If most couples restricted themselves to only two children, the our population would go DOWN, because some of these children would die in birth or from disease before they reached reproductive age.\n\n"Do we need to keep adding people to the planet?" The word "need" is, in this instance, subjective. Economically, it would be a very bad idea to stop adding people to the planet. For our /species/, it would be a very bad idea to stop adding people to the planet.\n\nAs for the website you referenced, what good is it for the Earth's biosphere to return to "normal" (a very subjective condition anyway) if humans aren't around to enjoy it?\n\nWe should probably restrict ourselves in the number of children we have. It is crazy to have 10 children in an age where overpopulation is so prevalent. Of course, this might also depend on where you life. It would be worse to have so many children if you lived in India than if you lived in the U.S.