Overpopulation is Stealing Our Future

This fifteen-second message was created by World Population Balance to raise awareness that in a world of finite resources, we must find positive solutions to end population growth as soon as possible. Produced by Dave Gardner and the Citizen-Powered Media GrowthBusters project. Written by Dave Paxson and Karen Shragg of World Population Balance. Original music by Steve Marston. For more information visit http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• overpopulation
• population
• growth
• World Population Balance
• sustainability
• resources
• limits to growth

[ultimatetalesfan19]

what they don't tell is that if Nigeria and India would stop fucking like mad then we wouldn't have to worry about overpopulation.

It is sick how they try to get white kids to participate in this when clearly European descendant people need to have MORE kids or there won't be any of us left, we are NOT the problem when it comes to having too many kids.

[Growthbuster]

@ultimatetalesfan19 The people of India or Nigeria could just easily suggest you and I stop overconsuming like mad. Every child you or I might have in a rich, overconsuming nation, has much more impact than a child in the global South. That doesn't relieve any of us of the responsibility to make responsible decisions about both our family size and our consumption patterns.

[FromanMD]

@Growthbuster We will be the ones who develop the technologies that will take humanity to the next level. Japan,USA,EU are where a modern and productive paradigm are evolving that will one day benefit the whole world and make consumption of "resources" a moot point but it takes generations to link these ideas and technologies together and create an entire infrastructure capable of being exported to these other places. Recycled Material,Solar Homes with composting toilets are sold in LA not Lagos

[FromanMD]

People in industrialized nations facilitate overpopulation in non-industrialized nations by peddling their life extending,mortality abating technology in conjunction with their ideology and media which break down social customs and religion which evolved to govern issues like marriage, family size, etc. If they would mind their own business these nations would have natural population control via cultural and resource restrictions.The fittest/smartest survive and NATURAL SELECTION does the rest!

[mphello]

To the overpopulation deniers: if the world's not overpopulated, then you have no right to complain about too many anti-overpopulation activists.

[mphello]

Anyone who denies overpopulation is a series problem has NO right to demand that everybody magically "find a job" or "have a job" (job in the deniers' fantasy pure-capitalist world of unlimited growth doing bullshit) yet still get housing, privacy, freedom, clean water, clean air, and food, and medical care. If you overpopulation-deniers can't provide a job to everyone: tough shit. You still have to provide everyone with these things.

[mphello]

@mphello If these conditions HAPPEN BY CHANCE to separate people along race or nationalistic lines, that's a shame. But, these conditions (and others like them) SHOULD be the determining factor.

NOT race or nationality.

I'm sick of this fucking bickering. Yes - I would like equality of # of white people to black people on earth.

I'd also like ten females to every male.

But, I'd kill all the white global-warming deniers in America if I could. And all the homophobic Nigerians if I could.

[mphello]

Those who consume as little as they can given the resources they have available, AND who don't impose insane unjust laws against others - such as BS religious laws or laws against MOSTLY personal private matters like abortion or marijuana or should be allowed to have 1 child.

Those who eat meat when they don't have to, impose religious fascist laws on others, should be tortured and killed.

THESE are the conditions which should differentiate the breeders from the non-breeders.

[carioca56]

@ultimatetalesfan19 Remember one American consumes the same amount of resources as about 32 of the Nigerians "Fucking Like Mad."

[MacZambrottVEVO]

india and china is worst

[personutile]

Overpopulation is NOT Stealing Our Future .Instead, believing in overpopulation and reducing the population are the main things that is stealing our future.

the industrial world is facing demographic crisis that will lead to economic collapse. in the other hand, people in Africa and some parts of Asia are breeding like rabbits

and then you want US (PEOPLE LIVES IN INDUSTRIAL NATIONS) TO REDUCE EVEN MORE our birth rate . WTF?!!!

NO, industrial countries have to increase their birth rate

[dilipjoym]

@Growthbuster Very true.