Overpopulation and the consequences?
Hello!
Since humans are multiplying exponentially and the population has increased by half in the last 50 years, the fun should come to an end at some point. Apart from what is happening to nature and our environment today alone as a result of such a mass of people – when will it be over for US personally at the latest? What will happen in our last days? And even more interesting – are there any plans to counteract overpopulation?
Do any of you have links on the subject or can you give me some answers?
Kind regards, Sina
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Lions eat zebras, there are too many lions soon too little zebras. More lions then starve – until there are enough zebras again. A gentle up and down from a distance looks like a constant balance!
In the case of man with his ability to push the "Ab" so far with technology, we are a single enormously steep upswing for a long time:
What's happening? we have always eaten more greedy everything that has allowed us to become so many (oil, wood, land area, fishing grounds) and that can now be created more quickly than it can be.
What happens then: In addition to our mere number, our hunger for finitely cheap energy and finite resources, we are increasing so far until we finally decimated by the following scarcity of raw materials, oil and food. In two ways: the economy slowly collapses and adapts itself – and more people will die than be born.
But we don't die completely. This lasts and until then we react politically and socially to it with new ideas and the ecosystem can regenerate in a condition (fishing grounds, forests, etc.).
Plans against it: 1 child policy in China, for example, was sensitive, has saved 300 million men and unpotential car drivers;) Otherwise, no direct, only natural (see findsciecle's answer) There are in some countries – Germany eg – even crumble plans to increase the Bev again!!!
less raw materials + many people = war (but still takes its time)
What are these plans to look like? Rules on how many children a woman can bring into the world?
There are already plans for not letting people become so old. They work up to 67 years and are even required 70 years.
Why has there been this increase for 50 years? Medicine has become better and there have been no more wars since 1946. War and disease have kept human beings in check for something, and since these two factors have disappeared, the world's population is growing. Germany, for example, encourages the families to put more children into the world, only the reason is another. As he misuses our pension funds, the country needs children to put more money into the cash register. And as long as money is more important than man or earth, nothing will change.
That's all I'm thinking about, because everything else would be speculation and science fiction…as where, what, why.
Greeting Wolf
google the name "Malthus" – he has in 18th A set-up – which is not completely correct, but has a lot of truth.
People tend not to multiply again exponentially! If people would do it like rats or insects, Europe would be overpopulated today North America and Japan. The opposite has happened: The population is aged. This is the great hope: the development of economy and social systems would reduce birth rates in Africa and Asia. Unfortunately we are miles away and if you are honest, Black Africa will never really develop!
But in the second. Part of his thesis was Malthus right: Population pressure regulates itself by misery, war, violence, disease.
That's true, it's always gonna happen in theory. But before a country practically reaches this standard of living and thus the child falls away as income aid and living pension insurance, there will undoubtedly be ANOTHER miserable baby boom (see USA + Germany after 1950) Until Africa, for example, would have to maintain the high standard of living in Europe, which prevents us from mass production. Is this economically possible? Is there the welfare state and pension funds in 30 years? Even if this is done, it would have to reach the German energy and resource-intensive standard of living in Africa 1 billion and more! It just doesn't go where are we supposed to get some of this steel, plastic and meat?
Diseases are now also limited by hygiene and medicine. Hunger fought by the "artificial diet" of the UN, war victims are limited by precision weapons, globalization, diplomacy. By means of technology and politics, however, at the end the bang of the B bomb is only delayed – and even intensifies it!
It is said that a stagnation will occur in 10 million people if we have no major technical innovations until then.
I think you mean billions??
If you would use the existing foods better and more sustainably, this world could easily feed more people. Only the food we eat every year in the garbage (supplementary waste could be fed as well as all people in the world without needing more area for cultivation. We often throw away good things because the minimum hold date has expired. it is destroyed every day tons of good bread because it was not sold until evening. How much good food is simply disposed of in hotels? My brother works in a supermarket. he controlled grapes and in a dagger was a single mourning a bit muddy but not bad. you couldn't take the one grape out because otherwise the weight is no longer true. If the customer were not so nasty and would also buy such dolds, one should simply destroy the existing food and not so much.
Don't panic. There can be no mention of exponential reproduction at present. In the developed rich countries the lack of young people is regretted, and many poorer countries are long gone. Forecasts are always difficult ("especially if they concern the future" M.Twain?). In any case, the world's population will settle and no longer double.
..This would mean that we would have to slow down the balance on Earth and take drastic measures. You can imagine the catastrophe with a little imagination.
It is concluded at the latest that the crowds can no longer be fed!
Why, various industries make sure that it is regulated. Pharma, dear expensive meaningless media for profit, than real help. Armor industry and standard prosthesis production, two flies with one flap….