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Originally Posted by amerikangod
First of all, even if all of your figures are true there is still certainly such a thing as overpopulation. You say the world can handle 48 billion people? So then what does 49 billion people make? One billion too many people. Overpopulation.
And even if we can sustain more people right now simply by changing our lifestyles, why ignore the problem of overpopulation until it becomes unavoidable? If we do that, our response will have to be much more severe.
Also, you ignore human nature. Sure, more people would have more resources if the greediest cut back... but since when does that happen?
It makes mores sense tackling the problem facing the reality of it versus only striving for the ideal. If you try to get everyone to do a little, you have a chance. If you try to get everyone to do a lot at once, nothing will happen. Ultimately, the biggest steps to repair things won't happen until everyone feels the strain.
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that is more nonsense. as human societies develop their birth rates DECLINE, so if we focus on development and balancing our consumption, then humans never will reach 48 billion in the first place. Our population is sky-rocketing in the developing world, and yet actually declining in the developed nations, just as a hundred years ago the birth rates in Europe and the United States were unbelievable. Again, overpopulation is a myth. It is an impossibility.