| steven787 said: The world has the highest known population since man has come into existence. There is less hunger proportionally then ever before. What's the problem again? |
I never heard of that statistic, but let's assume it's true.
What's the problem? Plenty of them... We're straining the planet's resources, in large part due to over-population. Exponentially rising population + depleting resources means trouble. It's the same problem Yeast and other simple organisms typically run into. Population growth can't go on forever, neither can economic growth.
What allows so many people to exist is mostly our technology which allows us to access plentiful energy, especially fossil fuels. If you noticed, before the economic crisis hit energy was getting more and more expensive, which will probably also happen when the economy starts to recover. It could even stop the economy from ever recovering to the levels we've seen in the past few years.
This will especially be a problem if investment in renewable energy (and even non-renewable energy) isn't taken seriously during the recession.
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