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
