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You may not have experienced overpopulation. There is a point beyond which negatives outweigh the positives. Many people in the Old World feel they would like t
by pishpash 9y ago
You may not have experienced overpopulation. There is a point beyond which negatives outweigh the positives. Many people in the Old World feel they would like to live with more space between people. One person left is not a useful extremum to consider, but population declining to early 20th century levels is arguably good for everybody.
- Robotbeat 9y agoI don't buy that. The problem in the third world isn't over population but under development.
- xbmcuser 9y agoIt is population growth speed that hurts the third world most as the population increase to fast for development to keep pace. But overall high population is a big problem people in the western/first world use atleast 10 times the electricity per person compared to the third world. First world population is 1 billion third world population is 7 billion. Similar is for other resources as the economic situation improves for these 7 billion they will put larger strain on all resources which are finite.
- Robotbeat 9y agoHardly finite. Do you realize how much solar energy hits the Earth every second? Provided we transition to clean energy (as we're doing) and electrify everything especially transport, there are plenty of resources. And there definitely aren't 7 billion in the third world.