Overpopulation 1/5

Forget coal, forget cars, forget industry: Are humans the real climate concern? Guests: Jeb Brugmann, Bruce Cox, Stephen Hazell, Mathis Wackernagel, Madeline Weld. Host: Steve Paikin. Broadcast: May 5, 2008. For more videos like this, go to tvo.org/theagenda

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[chadberry75]

NUKE INDIA

[linghun]

A large population is an asset more than a liability. More people means more brains and intelligence to find solutions. That's why Malthusians fail, they would succeed if people were stupid cows as they think we are.

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@lzardo2003 again look at my videos,or even my YouTube back ground.....  ;)

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@lzardo2003 which resources????? :) 

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@ClarksonsinUSA well you can look at my video's or my background... ;)

It is what it is..

[lzardo2003]

@cavic7585

Population control means having less kids, but in your case, since you cannot obviously understand this simple concept, your solution sounds reasonable

[lzardo2003]

@ClarksonsinUSA

and, finally, the only reason you and your seven kids (which I expect are just a lie) are "thriving" is because most of us DO NOT have that many kids, actually, many of us who have to actually WORK for a living know that it´s very hard to provide for even one kid alone. And, many of us does not have any kids at all

For this people you should be thankful, wasn´t for them YOU would already be living in a hellhole...

[lzardo2003]

@ClarksonsinUSA

Obviously you have not a clue about what overpopulation is...

It has nothing to do with how many of us there are or even how densely populated we are, it has to do with RESOURCES, it has to do with SUSTAINABILITY...

Simply we are using resources today that your very SONS will not have tomorrow, because we are depleting them FASTER than the planet can cope with.

[josbo51715]

@linghun Yet no one has found a solution yet. Reducing the population is the only solution. We are literally breeding ourselves to extinction.

[josbo51715]

@mycatisromeo Actually, that's not true. The planet isn't doomed. The planet can repair itself. However, with 7 billion people consuming resources, the planet isn't able to repair itself fast enough to keep up with consumption. If there were less people, the planet would repair much faster, By the way, Americans consume 20 times that amount of resources as those living in Third Word countries. This has nothing to do with poor people. In fact, the wealthy consume more resources per capita.

[ClarksonsinUSA]

Nonsense........

We have 7 sons,and we thrive..Europe is imploding due to sub replacement,it takes a 3 to 1 ratio worker to retiree...Make that work with declining population....

Population density in the USA, excluding Alaska is 34 per kilo meter..