Topic: World population is very small. (Read 488 times)

It's not really a question of whether or not the human population is growing. It is certainly growing. The thing is that it's growth is slowing. The total fertility rate in the world has been going down constantly since the 1950s, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate). There are projections there that should that by 2050 almost all regions of the world will be close to or below 2. If we aren't having more than two children per woman, we almost definitely won't have our population grow. Unless the trends all change, it looks like we won't have such a big probably with overpopulation.

I totally respect your point of view, however, remember that these almost 8 billion people you are talking about are also the ones responsible for the climate change that is happening everywhere. And humans are growing exponentially. If human population is not growing, then we will not need Family Planning anymore. But we do. Every country does.

if you think growth in the world is as great as the growth of the human population I think it is wrong, if the population manuasia higher than the growth of the world may be more social inequality in this world.
because technology growth will be higher than the population growth to balance the world economy

We are obviously capable of destroying the earth, but I think we are also capable of restoring it. In most fields there is technology to make what we are doing sustainable. For example, if you cut down trees, plants new trees. Unfortunately, it seems to usually take some very bad things to make us realize that we should do something different. Sometimes it even goes too far and we have plants and animals going extinct.

Why do you think that the increase if population will lead to an increase in misunderstanding and war? Do you think we'll have new groups of people starting new wars?

I do not think that the world population is too high --- and I believe that it does not need to. Well, first, I like to say that I agree with you about your point when it comes to 'imbalance' of the world's population and its money and other resources. However, money isn't what only people need. Humans needs an environmental exploitation for us to get the majority of the resources that we need. If today we only have 7.6 billion people living on the Earth, and yet that number is already enough to greatly destroy our planet, then I think it is not a good idea to make those numbers larger. Moreover, although large population may also mean great productivity that can lead to an increase in economy, still, we will experience scarcity and shortage in the future if we do not sustain well our avaiable natural resources. Lastly, I think that the increase in population will also lead in increase also of misunderstanding and war.

I'm not sure if I understand your thinking 100%, but I agree that the world population is not that big. It certainly has grown exponentially in the past couple centuries thanks to modern medicine, but it's still not that much. I've traveled around the world by land through over 30 countries and everywhere I went I was so amazed that there are really not that many people. There is so much land everywhere with no people, even in China and the United States. I found this really interested article that showed that at the population density of NYC, everybody in the world could fit in the state of Texas! (https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/at-nycs-density-the-worlds-population-could-live-in-texas.html) Of course, we have to think a lot about waste and resources, but we can do a lot better than we are. Whenever you hear about scarcity of any resource, remember that capitalism doesn't function without the idea of scarcity.

The world population is way too high! Our earth once was a beautiful place until we started to pollute it. We are creatures that use up a lot of resources and space. Our oil supply is already running low and with our population constantly increasing every natural resource will be used up.
We also are killing animals, more people need more space so we just destroy the homes of others. We definitely should control our population and keep it at the same level.

 
We have a lot of money, a lot of data etc. It's true.
But, firstly, material resources are distributed very unevenly. And the abyss between the rich and the poor only increases.
In addition, money is a consequence of peoples' existence. People are animals, part of nature. And natural resources can disappear becourse of humans. I think this is the main point in problem of overpopulation. Sorry, maybe I did not quite understand your idea.

If we can compare between the total population and earth land large is not comparable. The total population is around 8 billion people in the world. While the earth land large much bigger from the total population. The earth land large is around 36,8 billion acres. Moreover  the sea water large is much wider around 89,2 billion acres. It means that the world population is very small.

We are in fact, overpopulated. This accounts for most of our environmental issues such as global warming and shortage of resources. The survival of Earth, our home, is at stake.

This is a very subjective thing. The world is not overly populated, it is just that we are all gathering in cities in small pieces of land. Also ownership of land is not distributed equally, so a few people have a lot of land, slightly more people have adequate land but the majority of people are living on land that they have to rent etc. Yes, the world population is small.

Why can’t compare with data?
We losing data all the time too.
We loss a lot of data due to hardware failure, fire damage, software bug, virus, aging and unsupported data, vhs, video tape, floppy disk, books, vintage software, vintage hardware, vinyls disk etc, all are valuable data, they are not duplicated data, we create new data also we loss data, overall we create more data than losing them.

With all due respect sir, i pretty much believe that we populate the planet way more faster than the past 50 years. The worst case scenario of this uncontrolled and rampant rise of population is the over-exhaustion of our own natural resources with the overused of fossil fuels that would someday kill our atmosphere, global warming/climate change. Not to mention all kinds of Pollution cause by us.
If i were you, i would worry about how to save the planet or even how to find another planet like ours in the cosmos, possibility of interstellar travel.

I don’t know if it was we never take it seriously. We looked at the number we think it is okey, we think the population is fair enough, we don’t have any problem today, we live a complete life, very fulfilling life, we enjoy every second of our life has to offer. Ok enough of the dream, come to reality, deep inside us, we know everything is not okey, we keep hearing people telling us we have too high population we should reduce it. We shouldn’t use flying car b cause it is blah, we shouldn’t make money because it is evil, we shouldn’t have kids because it is expensive, we shouldn’t retired because we can’t afford it, we can’t afford house, we blah blah. I don’t know if it sound completely normal but we are working for what? Back to 30 years ago, we are doing fine, and we aim to be better, we want higher growth, in everything, higher living standard, higher population, higher wage, higher survival rate, higher interaction among human, higher economies, everything higher, we even expect to go to moon, it is not happening, everything just turn ugly, everything is become worse, we don’t want growth now, we want to de-growth now.

Your OP would be funny if you didn't mean it seriously. Your vision of things seems a bit distorted IMHO. And as it regards money, I don't know how I should explain you that that money does not really exist, that's just numbers in computers which people believe, and that if you add also the bubble of the derivatives you'd have even much more money in the system. But all that is all very virtual, while humans are quite real on the contrary.

If I had to sort through population by a country, by age gap, etc, it will be more disturbing, poor country usually had higher population while wealthy country has lower population, and the population gap is huge between them, I dunno how it would happen since they are so poor to feed a family but they somehow survive. Capitalism also usually come from wealthier country, the purpose of capitalism is believed to distribute wealth fairly, but I don’t know what is happening since the capitalism was found until it is today, everything didn’t turn out to be what we expected to be, we expect flying car by now, higher standard of living where we should never need to work again today, it is not happening, instead it turn out we gotta work more harder than ever, it become working poor, and long hours of working, i don’t know who promise the capitalism would work, to improve life, but I don’t see how it work today, everyone would just use capitalism to benefit themselves now, we are not working to become flying car nation, we are working to become the ultimate poor, also aging nation, I don’t know if aging nation isn’t serious enough because I don’t seem anyone care about it. What will be different if communism would to replace capitalism, I think it would just be another self-enriching governing used by the self centric corporation.

The peak will be 9 billion, then hopefully it will decrease, it's a hell lot of people and it only makes life hard for everyone, the only environment where 9 billion people alive is healthy is a utopia where everyone's life is perfect, the world is already too small for me.

The world population is rising at a rate of 100 million per year and the wars are not even eliminating 1% of this number. So you can't really say that it is some hidden agenda to reduce the world population.

Nope, this planet is already overpopulated, and its expected to reach 11 bil till 2100. Thats why there are so many wars currently, the hidden agenda is depopulation.

More wealth does not mean all those 7.6 billion people has contribution in it. Most 3rd world country is suffering from poverty because of over population and that is a fact.