How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (part 6 of 6)

[Javageek95]

I wonder how much pollution was produced from that truck carrying that rock I mean come on guys.......

[0561661241]

Thanks to being gay, I'm doing my part by not having children :D

[MrDenocan]

@0561661241 hahaha good one!!!

[Marios867]

And this is why maths is important

ohhh and 9/11 helped

[Marios867]

Hey Hey guys i have a huuugeee idea we get the pope to say that there was a srcipt in the bible like:Thy shall overpopulate the world or some shit and believe me a third of the world is catholic right??? so yaa about 2 billion people would only have aone child

[marcellin20a]

wow this is probably the most depressing documentary Ive watched but very informative. Im in my 20s and I cant imagine the world I will live in by the time I get to the age of the host which will be in 2060. I think the US and Europe need to reasses how they live thier lives. Governments in countries over 200 million should start capping on thier population and follow China and churches need to play a bigger part in educating people and recognising contraception

[someone2to1]

What about the family on tv 19 kids and counting, there fucking us up!

[theperv01]

So my solution US women should do without the ac during the summer learn to deal with the bitter cold during winter buy geo metros and smart cars aswell as nanos. Learn to deal with bordem like us guys do. Get off facebook and do somthing more productive with thier time. Stop drinking exspressos lattes and such and drink water and black coffee. stop spending on useless items such as gucci bags cosmetics and exspensive designer clothes if u look like a sea donkey. That stuff wont help them anyway

[izaccy]

@theperv01 your dreaming lol

[theperv01]

I already dont use much soo im happy but from what ive seen is women r to blame for this. American women in gen. Why what happens wheb its too hot they demand the ac on. When it gets too cold they demand to b warm turning on the heater. They demand thier lattes exspressos and each women in the states has to drive the best car her money cant afford. They want the biggest house with the biggest yard. They demand cells to b in touch on face book. Which if u ask me is a huge waste of time.

[a2ram]

@marksmanr I think you have mentioned twice during this video that the carrying capacity for the human population is 539 million... Could you share the source of this information

[a2ram]

So basically we can save humanity by: 1. Education (particularly women) & 2.Use of sustainable energy resources.....

But what about people in developing countries who wish to have a western lifestyle such as 1 car, international travel, etc.

Developed nations need to address the second option & Developing and Underdeveloped nations need to address the first option

[LilyMaid666]

I think this video may be brutal, but it is honest and it isn't fear mongering. People should look at it as a way to be inspired to do better; it is a free world, and we can do what we want, but we have to remember that we have conscience not to mention common sense. I think this would be a useful video or something like it to be shown all over the world in schools when kids are 15-17, when they start to think more about the world around them.

[MultiDaniel1230]

If we didn't have education we would be living in nature

[MultiDaniel1230]

This is a free country we can do whatever we want

[Mammothviking]

Only people that think this is a great film should be allowed to breed.

[samishihadeh]

america should have a policy just like china but different, the new policy should be controlling the life style, for example every house should have only one car one TV ... and the government should decrease weapon industry there, i can keep on going on and on, but no body is going to listen.

[walter0bz]

@samishihadeh -

my idea: driving license requires sterilization

[samishihadeh]

how about decreasing the level of our "life style" along with controlling "population" as we saw in part "5" one american individual consumes as much as 4.5 individuals living in china, so if we take the 350 million people in america and multiply them by 4.5 ===> 350m + 4.5 = 1.57 billion, so the way i see it, the Americans are consuming earth energy and agriculture more then china, and china is paying the price with the policy of one child and nothing is done in america.

[TheNecropolis20]

@samishihadeh actually china has paid the overpopulation price because one ethnic group is over -dominante even if we look at overall numbers theres this one group called han chinese and it numbers about a billion people world wide. where as in islolated places a ethnic group may only number in the thousands. the one child policy in china only applied to the han chinese the other ethnic groups are aloud sometimes 2 or 3 children in order to balance

[CorrectionPen]

@samishihadeh you are definitely right Sam. I couldnt have said better myself. However, if you place any intervention in people's life in America, you will see protestors or even riots. Only in China, you can impose such regulation and will not create any exacerbation since there is no human right

But you are definitely right. People in US are using resources in a out-of-control fashion. And also, they are using up alot of supplies for their OWN benefits at the cost of many poor countries.

[userwords]

@samishihadeh overpupulation has caused cancer rate to increase 44%. It is not only about resources and quality of life. And we dont have the right to lower quality of life for our children. Just have one child, limit inmigration to a quota and you are done. No need to push ppl into cancer or poverty.

[geiadude]

The Earth will revolt. The Gaea. System Will see this Truth. This Species. Homo Sapience's will last like no outer

[EatYourChimp]

zeitgeistmovie . com

[TheRealEvo]

iam gonna have 40 kids before this shit goes into place

[Zgmflegend]

@TheRealEvo Then i hope that your woman has 40 miscarriages...

[TheRealEvo]

@Zgmflegend i hope you go to hell.

[Zgmflegend]

@TheRealEvo The only hell there is. Is called earth. Caused by people like you who want to breed children like animals. If a''biblical'' hell would exist, then ''possible'' billions of people with selfish desires like you should end up there. Who only think about themselves and not about the rest of the world with their self-destructive overconsuming behavior. Simply put. If you behave like a beast, we must treat you as one. Which means, only more steaks for in the freezer...

[CountNadir]

@Zgmflegend well put. People who breed more children help destroy our planet's environment and empower corporations by providing them with manpower by having so many children.

Few people=less manpower=less industrialization

less industrialization=less pollution=healthy planet for all

[a2ram]

@Zgmflegend fuck off you troll

[fraze1ixg]

all we need to do is change our consciousness and the way we live. were not overpopulated, we just dont know how to live properly on the planet. we have severely detached ourselves from nature and that is our real problem. permaculture methods would greatly improve our situation but this means not relying on money to exist and learning to share with one another.

[7lllll]

Apparently it is impossible for most of us to understand any problem before we finally have to learn it the hard way. Only after witnessing the Holocaust did we understand that genocide is wrong. Only after the Malthusian Catastrophe happens, and the world is in complete ruin will most of us understand that overpopulation is wrong.

[pulpfictionost]

we deserve to die, for wrecking the place. All of this is because of human greed!

[lelouchmagnet12]

@pulpfictionost thats true.... but we cant blame every human,because everyone has different motives.... besides that, i dont think we can die, because humans will continue to press for something better and work for happiness.... its who we are..... we wont die until theres nothin else to achieve.......

[Yickbob]

This is 1 of the most important docs for all people to watch, IMHO. I also want to comment on the petition link provided above - quite simply, Sir David presents the case very convincingly AGAINST the type of measures advocated by this person? group? Education is the key, not draconian measures. Also it is the global hectares per capita consumed by the west that has to be addressed as much as the birth rate of the developing world - simply, if we want to use more we should procreate less.

[poweranabols09]

6.7999970 billion more people must view this great doc. and realise the huge importance of it's content.

We are so vainly obsessed with material horseshit that has no bearing or relevance on anything, and have become so used to our idle, ultra-pampered existences (in the west particularly), that we can't even broach the subject of change, or austerity. Its criminal that in OUR world in this day and age some *cough, cough* are using more than 9x the amount of others. WE MUST CHANGE TODAY!



[humancondition28]

Good documentary, but that wiki page you linked to is ridiculous. Since when should marriage (a human religious construct) apply to every human? Not every culture even HAS marriage. I happen to be an anti-religious feminist and ideally I want to adopt rather than having my own kids, but are you going to force every couple, however strong they are, to get married just so they can have a family? Marriage doesn't strengthen a couple, it's just a legally binding document.

[TheDisproof]

Well done BBC!

There is a similar film to this called "overconsumpulation" on here although not as long.

[00Avenger17]

I PREFER THE BLACK YOUTUBE STYLE!!!!! THEY SHOULD KEEP IT ALWAYS - TO REDUCE ENERGY USE (copy paste!!!!!!!!!!!! =D)

[xponen]

WTH with petition!

NOT MORE LAW ffs.

This thing must come voluntarily.... don't you saw what happen in India?

[xponen]

It is NOT population per se.

It is also abour OVERCONSUMPTION that is occuring in industrialized world.

Didn't anyone see the data? if 16 billion people were living like in Rwanda; the world is still sustainable... but if 3 billion people living like in USA; the world will die.

[walthain]

Thanks to marksmanr for posting this video. The only way is to reduce mankind to a population of about 3 billion. Because today mankind will need two planets to support life by 2030. See my youtube videos about reducing mankind and about a worldwide births stop.

[xponen]

@walthain you DON'T NEED to reduce to population to 3 Billion...

You need more efficient usage of energy and water.

That mean; no eating till you explode.... no fuel guzzing Humvee to go to groceries... no party-ing till dawn.

[dedondenosoy]

water forests...good example of helping with what they can...

[TheSomnambulist06]

We should send all the religious zealots to live on the moon, so they can be closer to god ;)

[nastyevilbunny]

I think this film can be sumerised with a t-shirt slogan i saw:: 'if you can't feed em, don't breed em.'

[esther19741974]

John P. Holdren "ecoscience" one of hundreds of quotes page 786, Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

[sgrave1]

its amazing how this old men react, birth control etc... i thing we should inverse it, control of the old people, you consume all your life to create this problem, its not to the children to pay for that, but you who have to go away and let the young uncorrupt mind rebuilt the world.

[lilaznnerd69]

okay, i was actually really with it until i read the petition...

to me, it seems to carry a heavy and oppressive connotation

fines up to 10 annual salaries? that alone might create poverty

i like the idea of limiting population, but i don't want to have children after 33 either (althought i might, i dunno as i'm still 18)

though i do admit... if implemented.. this would be better than it is now...

[JDubs878]

Humankind is FUCKED! No way we're going to change in time to save the planet.

I try everyday to conserve the amount of resources I use and try my best to recycle and reduce the garbage I produce and I know that short of taking drastic measures, it won't be enough. I'm trying and its not enough and then I see tons of people everyday who simply don't give a damn and waste like there's no tomorrow.

Think of all the millions of ppl who do this everyday and you see that we are FUCKED!

[siesss]

@JDubs878

It's governments... america uses more than a few billion plastic bags a year. Why not creating a law that you have to pay 5 dollars for a plastic bag? Believe me, next time people go to supermarkets, they will bring a proper bag.. There is never something about this in the news, or anything related to pollution and what we are doing to this planet. If we go on like this, million will die, and we will have a shitload of wars. It's all about wealth and money..

[BrazySavage]

Sign The PETITION!!!! We need to act as soon as possible. People who want a world with poverty, war/death, or basically extinction will not act in any way against this global crisis

[Mezocosm]

when you try to sign the petition you can't get past the captcha. nor is there anyway to alert someone of the problem without a whole lot of effort.

[AryanKnight]

-Ha, as i ponder traffic-jams, it seems homosexuality may be the salvation of humanity, --for try as they may, gay-persons doing their thing to a frenzy has never bred an offspring; --yet it sure has defeated inane creation of untold numbers of undesired births! God's creatures are imbued with sexual urge as a means by which to populate space-ship Earth, -thus besides devout abstinence, homosex now looms as a key-mechanism or attribute by which we can thoughtfully limit this dire potential...!!!

[cannotfindavoice]

According to the U.N. Population Database, the world's population in 2010 will be 6,908,688,000. The landmass of Texas is 268,820 sq mi (7,494,271,488,000 sq ft). So, divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person. That's approximately a 33' x 33' plot of land for every person on the planet, enough space for a town house. So does that sound like world overpoplation  to you, every other country is still free only Texas is used 100% truth & fact.

[Vanagew1]

@cannotfindavoice It wouldn't last very long. The problem is that while there is a large amount of water, alot of said water reserves are polluted, often beyond repair. In fact, over 30% of the fresh water reserves are not even safe for bathing, let alone drinking. There are other problems too, overtilling of the soil reduces its bearing capacity for nutrients. As a result, desertification is taking place in areas that used to be fertile.

[MrSwed83]

IF YOU CARE DONT FORGET TO SIGN!!! JUST GO INTO THE LINK ABOVE

[nice0071]

THOSE FAT AMERICANS NEED TO CUT DOWN ON HAPPY MEALS!

[syphilerpes]

anyone else notice how after every part the pple viewed drops by a couple thousand?? ahahah and as it goes on less and less people got through it XD

[1st503rdSGT]

Feeling bad about the environment or 3rd world shitholes isn't going to solve anything. Are there any plausible ideas out there that don't involve killing 5 billion people or reducing us all to India's standard of living?

[alifia23]

THERE IS A POULTION CLOCK ON INTERNET

[alifia23]

I'm sure the elite has a b plan.

[paigeEZ12]

educate kids while they're young, so they'll have values and opinions on this subject and be thinking about their impact on the world as they grow up.

[Ruth5650]

Nope, not signing the petition! This petition is wrong in so many ways. It would result in force abortions, force sterilization , unnecessary financial burdens on families, legalize kidnapping ( kids will be taken out of parents homes simple because there parents didn't procreated at the right time or had more three children, had a child before being married three years etc.),

[HyenaKiller]

@Ruth5650 Are you a parent? If everyone agreed to comply with the measures, there would be no 'unnecessary financial burden' on families as they would not procreate and bring unnecessary consequences on themselves. The path to getting this planet back to an abundant and healthy provider is a long and hard road due to long years of mishandling and pollution, so you cannot expect the proposed measures to be soft and comfortable either.

[Ruth5650]

@HyenaKiller Yes, and Children are a blessing. 

[HyenaKiller]

@Ruth5650 I know, I am also a parent and have thought quite much about where things are going with this planet and if my children will even have half the opportunity to live a decent life, with the way things are going now. It seems better to limit or even stop the amount of children being born until things are improved to a much higher degree

[Ruth5650]

@HyenaKiller you're ok with punishing people simply for having babies? Plus, I think the birth rate is below the replace rate already. If we are over pop. it's because people are living longer, not because we are reproducing like rabbits.

[Zgmflegend]

@Ruth5650 You call it punishing. I call it selfish desires. As for the second part, inbox.

[TheTopNoob]

sign the petition in the link, read it and decide for yourself! :)

[03saru]

just put some sort of sterility chemical in all the world's fresh water supplies - problem solved - nobody dies no more pollution no more harm for the environment and the WHOLE race is gone after a century

[gurungg48]

Worst thing about this problem is that its happening in my lifetime! what were my parents doing when this problem was known 2 centuaries ago?

Answer to population problem is education. If the reality that the world is facing can be educated and promoted around the world people will mate responsibly. Let's be honest, most people with too many children are often the people without education. There is a urgent need to learn something from people in kerela mentioned in the video.

[jimmyti9cer]

I KNOW SO!

[birken007]

just nuke 80% av the world. problem solved. the radiation is gone after some generations..

[03saru]

@birken007 your a retard. seriously nuke 80% of the human race? jesus dumbass - just put some sort of sterility chemical in all the world's fresh water supplies - problem solved - nobody dies no radiation/pollution for the environment and the WHOLE race not just 80% is dead after a century

[birken007]

@03saru No! 20% of the human race left, so then maybe those dumbasses can get it right this time, and live in harmony with the planet. People are fucking this planet up, we are a parasite and destroy eyerything. The reason I said 20%, is that maybe 20% of the human race are good people, how to kill the 80% shallow dumbasses, I don't know...

[theotherdumbblonde]

I want our species and others to continue. But I think humans aren't the best species, because I am one of course I care, but I think we suck and it's ok if we destroy ourselves, how many millions of species have gone extinct over the years...maybe it's just our time leave and make room for other species.

[GJGJ654]

this is stupid

[birken007]

@GJGJ654 fucking shallow dumbass

[Tien1185]

Im a guy and don't plan to have no children. I hate people who have tons of kids just to go file their income to make money from people who don't have kids. I believe its unfair!!!! I hate pay taxes !!!!!! I care for our planet, i plan to do something else rather than raise a child... Life is too short .

[PlatinumHearts]

@Tien1185 Or you know, you could adopt.

[zxAl3xand3rxz]

Very nice:]

[rellosforme]

Hey, cheer up, nature created us, whatever happens, its her fault. :)

[Thunder0ne]

Cultivating water ... just brilliant!!

[shrewdle93]

Yeah we need to control the birth rate but not by the petition mentioned in the description, it regulates your right to marriage for no reason and forces us to have only 1 year out of 8 in which we can procreate as long as we are over 28(women) and 33(men) and have been married for 3+ years and can prove we are happy. Very unlikely people could manage to concieve due to the amount of time you'd have to prove you fufilled Billy Meir's (yeah the UFO guy) criteria. There are other options.

[imkm41]

soln is to exclude each n every luxury out of our life n live simple life

that's how nature set balance

[lj2381]

Dear Social Elite that encourage this perilous end,

When/if this ever goes bad in such a way as the documentary insists, I will be knocking on your door with my baseball bat to take what I need.

I am very sad to see such short vision on this matter. I pray we can rectify this before it is too late.

[marksmanr]

@IfureadthisURdum Pollution and shrinking food supplies are just a couple of the problems created from the mother issue overpopulation. Solving overpopulation solves almost every environmental, societal, and ecological issue in the world.

There is a petition linked in this video's description for a worldwide controlled birth stop (the solution to overpopulation). If you read it and sign it, that alone is a great help for the world.

[1388mark]

@marksmanr CAPITALISM IS THE MOTHER ISSUE

[claudius2u]

@IfureadthisURdum

You can do a lot. Expose this deceptive video series as a lie, a hoax with a few facts about population twisted with many, many lies abour who is generating famine, strife, and pestilence to alter the truth about earth resources to appear to be over-used and limited. Read "The True Story of the Bilderberger Group," to see through these lies. All is documented.

[MrDarkbloom]

@IfureadthisURdum If you want to help fight the problems we face you could: 1. Reduce your own levels of consumption and waste. 2. Try to convince people you know to do the same. 3. Donate money to good organizations helping to save the planet - support their campaigns to spread awareness, better government policies etc 4. perhaps even start your own organization to promote action. ETC...

[chentex23]

4:10 ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!

[RJL738]

I don't really know what to say about this but this is a very serious documaentary, this should be thought about.

[versio9]

sir attenborough in d end asks: can our intelligence save us?

i think not bcos it's too late. it's nature itself that will save planet earth. for 1, global warming will cause flooding that'll kill vast populations. 2, new (& antibiotic-resistnt) diseases will wipe out people. and 3, only the haves are more likely than the havenots to survive (still a law of nature, the struggle of the fittest). of course the future is bleak, and the human species can only have value when it is in extinction.

[marksmanr]

@versio9 We should not become extinct, be more positive! Human beings are the most valuable lifeforms in the universe.

[marksmanr]

@chuknuti Our value is based on the fact that human beings are the highest lifeforms (in consciousness). We have a free will to act with or against nature. Of course I know there are a lot of irresponsible (even megalomaniacal!) people on Earth, who think they are above the laws of nature and think that they can exploit and destroy the planet/environment without any consequences or without care for them. We must be responsible for ourselves and actions. We are able to make this world a paradise.

[3rdAutisticCuckoo]

@marksmanr well, the Universe as we know it.

[daybreak4491]

@marksmanr man you are wrong! everything is valuable, without everything we have now.. we are as good as nothing so human beings are sure not the most valuable, when we are gone in this universe no one would even notice it and lots of other lifeforms may even lucky without us.

[Hokrollo1]

@marksmanr

Not! Humans are not created by god....we're created by the devil ..the end, we're the endless destroyers always looking for a new opponenent

[Hokrollo1]

@marksmanr

Not! Humans are not created by god....we're created by the devil ..the end, we're the endless destroyers always looking for a new opponenent. Even throught that ....I enyoyed this program. BBC documentaries are always nice:)

[TheThreeWeavers]

@marksmanr

No we are not and it is this kind of thinking which has lead us into such destructive paths. We are no more important, we just like to kid ourselves we are.

[collieennis]

@marksmanr can i ask why you think this?

[SaucisseMerguez]

@marksmanr We are NOT valuable, all we do is exploit, use and destroy everything we find. Any environment would be better off without us but since we have a survival instinct we do want to keep living.

[kenniemc69]

@versio9

how come, that your not a scientist ?

Your so smart... you just know everything about our humble little planet huh ?

You know nothing.. i do not know how to spell in english very well.

Stop guessworking about how the earth is gonna take us out.. you know nothing, how shut you ? and if ya know everything then stop comming here on youtube and do something about it jackass !

[captainandthelady]

@versio9  This reply might seem brutish and negative but in the end he is correct. Either we reduce our population ourselves or nature will do it for us. If that happens it will be bloody and messy.

[flyoverjoe]

@versio9 I'm sorry you weren't hugged as a child:(  Let me give you a BIIIIIG bear hug from afar! I hope you feel better.

[saberhead13]

Whats the song at 3:32? Philip Glass? If anyone knows please post =)

[freshfishbowl]

@saberhead13 I know, i'm trying to find it too, it's also in a pro life commercial but I can't find anything on it!!

[preytec]

relax, ww3 will sort us out

[kenniemc69]

@preytec

ya... and some nuke bombs....

No seriously.. your family is gonna die of thirst.. your little sister first... :)

No try google " die of thirst " and see what is gonna happen with your family soon....HAHAHA !

[lukesteele1]

We must create inland canals from our deserts then desalinate using solar panels. We must stop fresh water running into the oceans and trap it for human use. Water mangement will save us all in the end.

[looni3]

I agree with you but think it would be more feasible done with nuclear power. Desalination is already expensive; using expensive energy as well would make it largely uneconomical.

Wiki Atlantropa; it was an engineering project proposed in 1920 to dam the straights of Gibraltar. Canals in the sahara would lower the Mediterranean sea, simultaneously irrigating the desert and exposing submerged land.

[Androly]

So we're pretty much fucked?

[darklordyonus]

@Androly yes

[RealityGameWorld]

i have 6 answers, #1 shink us #2 legalize abortion #3 Man made Earthqakes #4 turn each person&/country on to each other #5 wipeing out all religious people #6 letting people stave to death/killing each other over food and water###

well to me theres only 3 good! answers/better two answers too you only>> #1 shink us #2 legalize abortion.

[whatifitwasyou]

If only the whole world could be educated.

[Vierotchka]

Thank you - Mr. Attenborough said what I have been saying for years.

[RI0TBLADE]

we need birth control,new energy technology and more education to poor country to save world but, we live world where money is power, so i don't believe we success

sorry my bed English.

[aquamammal]

@RI0TBLADE That's how we'll lose. Don't lose hope.

Be the change you want to see. I do.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[daniember]

that was indeed very informative and shocking as well.pity that only few of us viewed it so far, it just shows that humans are just not interested in this subject and that changes are to be made not by the poor ones (poor countries) but only by those who "own" the knowledge of the future and who are crazy enough to go on with their goals. it is our responsibility to tell people and it is our duty to convince people. it is of strategic importance to help people realize the happenings of tomorrow.

[NelijaHunor]

@daniember I very much agree with your comments

[danagarro]

@daniember I agree, i am writing my college essay about it

[jcotteri]

Thanks very much :) Enjoyed this program very much XD