What do you think will happen to humanity when earth becomes too overpopulated by humans?

Concerns about overpopulation has relatively been a recent concern to Mankind. Throughout our history, human population has grown slowly despite high birth rates, due to the population-reducing effects such as war, plagues and high infant mortality. During the 750 years before the Industrial Revolution, the world's population hardly increased, remaining just under 250 million.

Now the recent rapid increase in human population over the past two centuries has raised concerns that humans are beginning to overpopulate the Earth, and that the planet may not be able to sustain present or larger numbers of inhabitants. The population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1400. At the beginning of the 19th century, Earth had just reached roughly 1 billion human inhabitants . Increases in medical technology have led to rapid population growth on a worldwide level ever since.

As of late 2011, There is just under 7 billion humans living/occupying on planet earth. A 100 years ago, There was not even half of that many people living on earth. Its also been a proven fact that more people are born in the world than the people who die in the world. Will this uneven balance eventually force humanity to colonize somewhere else within our solar system? Will the population control go into effect??

(My Opinion/Point of view) One thing we as people must take into consideration is the amount of time, money, and effort we have spent toward saving and extending our lives. Although these are positive accomplishments, we must also consider the effect it has had on our own number. How much have we contributed toward humanely contolling our number and preserving the environment?

Nature is a balance of existence. In order to coincide with nature, we must balance the number of lives which we produce with the saving and extending of lives. We mustn't use resources any faster than they can be reproduced. We need to respect ourselves by learning to respect the environment which we rely upon for our own existence. If not, we will cease to exist. - ThePS3News

Is overpopulation just a myth or will it eventually happen in our lifetime??

Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation

End of earth Wallpapers links: http://coolvibe.com/page/5/?s=earth

Nevermind, bad joke.

The 'One Child Policy' in China has prevented an estimated 250 million births in the same span of ten years.

More measures like this I imagin.

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they will just simply kill the people, no biggie :)

since the world is already more populated than what the guys behind the picture likes we will have a staged-natural-disaster in 2012 by HAARP

it will do a decent job

and after that, Armageddon will most definitly wipeout most of the true human race right before the mandatory Do-Or-Die RFID Chips are pushed upon the rest of the human and nephilim race :)




or maybe im just thinking too hard about all of it =P

When we reach our carrying capacity (K) the world population (or I'll say metapopulation) we will have an stable N (population number).

Rifgt now we have had big lamdas and big r (population growth rate)... but there really isn't any reason why our populations wouldn't behave like all other poplations.

Carrying capacity graph:

not happening anytime soon...

but extremely high population can actually lead to the end of animals and plants on earth, it all depends on soil fertility which grows plants (food) and therefore animals (humans)

Mass extinction.

I doubt Mass extinction, as mass extinctions take millions of years. Maybe, just when resources get scarce, we'll have a flat or a negative rate of popultaion growth.

We'll be dead by the time it happens, so no need to worry.