Overpopulation is a Myth

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Truth is every man, woman, & child in the whole world could have about 1 acres of land to themselves & it would all fit into a land mass the size of North America, with the rest of the world completely unoccupied.

Total land area of North America (including Central America and the Caribbean): 24,486,305 km² (6,050,697,738 acres)
Average population density of North America: 21.0 persons per square kilometer (11.77 acres per person)
Total population of Earth 6,553,289,000
Average population density of Earth: 44.0 persons per square kilometer (5.62 acres per person)

6,050,697,738 acres of North America / the total world population of 6,553,289,000 = 0.93.. acres per person (not families mind you, that would take up less land maas)

Source(s):
North America at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Am...
Population Clock at http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclo...

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[GalinorGustave2]

the comments here are hilarious. do you people see yet that this theory is so massive & all encompassing that it's literally impossible to prove? remember science geeks? the more you add to a theory the harder it becomes to prove it.

[hitssquad]

"you can't expect [technological breakthroughs] to be the answer to all"

As I just explained to you, I don't expect technology to be an answer to anything. The proof of the uselessness of technology is here: efficientfrontier. com/ef/404/CH1. HTM

Wealth is caused by people, property rights, scientific outlook, capital markets, and fast and efficient communications and transportation. More people = more wealth per person, ceteris peribus. Technology without property rights leaves people poor.

[pronatalist]

Stupid Android spell-checker again botched my word, "that the flow of babies into the world should be much STRONGER"

They say of poor people, that children are their only wealth, and that sex is the only recreation they can afford. When there is no electricity, people are forced to go to bed early, and so they naturally engage in the only recreation they can easily do in the dark, reproducing ever more babies.

If jobs or schooling lacks in many countries, even more reason to marry at age 15.

[pronatalist]

But babies are a huge factor to really stimulate the economy. If people wait for phony gov stimulus to work, the economy may never get better, and may get worse and worse.

I don't believe in using any means of birth control, that the flow of babies into the world should be much stro her, and restrained mostly only by God and the time it takes for human pops to grow. Encourage all regions to grow freely,even where crowded or poor

When pop growth seems unstoppable again,pop accommodation improves

[pronatalist]

But was The Three Gorges dam built because the Chinese pop had become just so massive and dense, that big water supplies are needed to supply the many huge cities, or because politicians want to make a name for themselves with a massive project?

Is there sometimes too much focus on supposed need for "miraculous breaththrough" technologies & massive gov projects, when it is also possible for massive human pops to grow freely and "wild" even if the breakthrough technologies somehow become delayed?

[pronatalist]

I like technology solutions to growing pops, that then say it is okay to keep on freely growing without any birth control, but sometimes "technology optimists" can almost border on idolatry. Sometimes there needs to be a little more of that "God will provide" mentality, and that in some sense, it is just okay for regions to be poor, crowded, and to enjoy a unrestrained birthrate

Yeah, I agree with forcing people to remove else be flooded by giant Three Gorges Dam, if only option to keep growing?

[yoshyoka]

Good luck with your PhD! If you have not read them yet, take a look to Daniel Yergin's book "the quest:...". Althoug it is not academically speaking correct, it still makes for an amusing history review of the history of energy :)

[chookbuffy]

Perhaps that is how my arguments look from the outside.

I'm finishing my PhD in energy so I can feel some sympathy of frustration.

Good luck with your work, your "500 words or less" do stand out here!

[chookbuffy]

"Better for People" That is the phrase that needs consideration. There is a lot of inductive reasoning in your response. Climate change, is a good example of many unkowns but, projected within scientific estimates all consistently show that deviating from the status quo (i.e temperatures remain within their normal flux) is dangerous. A conservative who abhors regulatory ratcheting would surely want to avoid a future to which that would become necessary for survival.

[chookbuffy]

Please offer your contribution then. There is more than enough ignorance to go around.