POPULATION

[BADecker]

I'll bet that there are plenty of astrophysysicists who are mathematicians who could calculate a very different distance by calculating a gradual change in math and physics into it. But why do this when it is so much easier to use all kinds of constants that we don't for-a-fact know existed more than a million years ago?

I'll concede that scientific understanding of the distant past is a projection, and that the universe changes over time. You're not talking differences of degree though, about whether the universe is 10 or 15 billion years old - you're saying (in the religion thread) a few thousand or (here) a million, which is simply not true. That can and has been easily tested right here on Earth. Isotope analysis such as radio-carbon dating has proven far beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is over 4 billion years old.

I really hope you do the sunglasses thing in real life, whenever you make a comment, you flip them down from your forehead. That would be brilliant.

If a person said, "It looks like the universe is 13.5 billion years old according to this evidence or that," he would be okay. But since our pottery only goes back about 5,000 years, and since radioactive dating has its anomalies and flaws, we don't know even close to for sure. All our evidence for the universe age of 13.5 billion could be evidence that has been affected by any number of things that could be causing false readings in the way we interpret them.

On the other hand, if God created the universe about 7,500 years ago, and placed into the creation all kinds of things that could be interpreted scientifically to show that the universe might be older, how would we know?

There is absolutely no proof that the universe is much older than 5,000 years... about how old we can date the oldest pottery and "statues." So, be honest, and say it the way it is... not the way you would like it to be.

We don't know that the earth didn't have a population in the past, that was twice the size of today. And that most of them were destroyed in some apocalypse. The Bible shows that this is possible in Noah's Flood, and Sumerian writings in the Epic of Gilgamesh more or less agree that it could have been that way.

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[Anonaneadone]

How to live comfortable in an over populated environment?

Living comportable in this world even if it's over populated is easy. You must be use to it. In my country. The population is so huge year by year over 100m+ with only 300km island.

World is so over populated, i can't imagine in future that we can feed all of the people in this world. I can't imagine where the other people live.

[akram143]

Its simple,all you need is money for comfortable life.You have to be richer than 70% of people in that country to call yourself rich and can use that money to get some attention for yourself and make your life better.

But making money is not that much simple.

[clickerz]

Its simple,all you need is money for comfortable life.You have to be richer than 70% of people in that country to call yourself rich and can use that money to get some attention for yourself and make your life better.

But making money is not that much simple.

In a practical way, yes money plays an important role to have a comfortable life. But it is not money alone if you are having a happy family and producing your own food etc you can have a comfortable life, an abundant life best describes this. If those basic needs are sustained like food, shelter, clothing, etc, you have quite comfortable life  IMHO.

[akram143]

Its simple,all you need is money for comfortable life.You have to be richer than 70% of people in that country to call yourself rich and can use that money to get some attention for yourself and make your life better.

But making money is not that much simple.

In a practical way, yes money plays an important role to have a comfortable life. But it is not money alone if you are having a happy family and producing your own food etc you can have a comfortable life, an abundant life best describes this. If those basic needs are sustained like food, shelter, clothing, etc, you have quite comfortable life  IMHO.

IMO,comfortable life means we don't have to worry about our income source for the remaining life time for all the thins like food,shelter and clothes then its comfortable life for that we need lot of money.

[zorgo.games]

How to live comfortable in an over populated environment?

IMHO the way you live your life (comfortably or uncomfortably) mostly depends on internal factors such as feeling of freedom, content, self-esteem, etc. External factors (overpopulation is just one of them) play the secondary role. I think that we should focus more on our own inner world which we can influence at least partially than on the outer world that lives by itself.

[GideonGono]

Its simple,all you need is money for comfortable life.You have to be richer than 70% of people in that country to call yourself rich and can use that money to get some attention for yourself and make your life better.

But making money is not that much simple.

In a practical way, yes money plays an important role to have a comfortable life. But it is not money alone if you are having a happy family and producing your own food etc you can have a comfortable life, an abundant life best describes this. If those basic needs are sustained like food, shelter, clothing, etc, you have quite comfortable life  IMHO.

The only thing you need was the satisfaction about everything and also hard work. You'll become comfortable when you already claim all the hierarchy needs of the person because from that situation, you can live at the higher degree.

[KingScorpio]

How to live comfortable in an over populated environment?

become the capitalist let the lazy skumbacks work for you,

you have to tell them somehow that thats good for them,

or better, that god told them to do that and you are some kind of a religious nobility

[n0ne]

Even in highly populted nations there will be more bare lands. If those were used effective automatically the issues faced out of population can be sought. In specific when a separate region is allocated for industrial development a mass population gets dumped over that region. If the same is diversified to different localities more people will get job and more relocation gets stopped.

[BADecker]

Babies are so cute. And it is so much fun getting them going.

[akram143]

Babies are so cute. And it is so much fun getting them going.

But they will become more annoying if you have to spend years with them.All the day sleeping and crying.

Use protection for peaceful life.

[Negotiation]

The main problem in our country is the population It is a densely populated country. Due to the increase in population people of the country face many problems. Health problems food crisis water pollution. To overcome these problems population growth must be controlled.

[akram143]

The main problem in our country is the population It is a densely populated country. Due to the increase in population people of the country face many problems. Health problems food crisis water pollution. To overcome these problems population growth must be controlled.

Even if government enforces strict rules on birth control still the existing problems won't resolve any quick so there must be other steps from governments and citizen to resolve them.First stop asking for jobs be your own boss, try to generate revenue for yourselves which also leads to government to make money.

[Subbir]

We live in a society as long as the Toto population slowly increases we will not be able to reduce it in any way. We all want our children and families to stay so even if we don't want to our family will grow the balance of the earth will gradually decline. These are the most common phenomena today.

[darkangel11]

The main problem in our country is the population It is a densely populated country. Due to the increase in population people of the country face many problems. Health problems food crisis water pollution. To overcome these problems population growth must be controlled.

How would you control it? Make people pay taxes for every child like they did in China? This is stupid!
The best way to keep population growing steadily is to remove all welfare. You have enough money to bear 10 children, by all means do it if that's what you want! You only have money to raise a single child and are stupid enough to get 3 you will make your life miserable. People should learn to pay for their mistake and not rely on others to do it for them.

[PulindaDeshan]

It is very hard to accomplish that, especially if you don't like overcrowded places. I think people have to adapt, there are disadvantages and advantages in a overpopulated environment and community.

[mikehersh2]

When most people think of overpopulation, they tend to conflate this with the issue of space, and living comfortably when the population around them is becoming more and more dense. In some places in the world, this unfortunately is the case. Take a look at any drone shot of the streets of Mumbai, where people seemed to be crammed in like sardines, or documentaries on Japanese apartment complexes filled with rooms no bigger than a closet, in some cases, even a cage, due to the amount of available space so limited in those areas.

However, if you look at the global population as a whole, you can in fact fit all of Earth's inhabitants into a space no bigger than the state of Texas, and if piled on top of each other, in terms of just pure mass, it wouldn't even reach the top lip of the Grand Canyon. The real issue when it comes to overpopulation is resources, or "carrying capacity".
Carrying capacity is simply the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. Certain regions of the world have a higher carrying capacity as others, however the real issue lies in the global carrying capacity. As a whole we are increasingly diminishing our resources to the point where they cannot return back to their normal levels. Take a look at over fishing for an example...

This National Geographic article is really interesting and really shows the drastic effects of over fishing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/climate-change-is-shrinking-essential-fisheries/

[squatz1]

When most people think of overpopulation, they tend to conflate this with the issue of space, and living comfortably when the population around them is becoming more and more dense. In some places in the world, this unfortunately is the case. Take a look at any drone shot of the streets of Mumbai, where people seemed to be crammed in like sardines, or documentaries on Japanese apartment complexes filled with rooms no bigger than a closet, in some cases, even a cage, due to the amount of available space so limited in those areas.

However, if you look at the global population as a whole, you can in fact fit all of Earth's inhabitants into a space no bigger than the state of Texas, and if piled on top of each other, in terms of just pure mass, it wouldn't even reach the top lip of the Grand Canyon. The real issue when it comes to overpopulation is resources, or "carrying capacity".
Carrying capacity is simply the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. Certain regions of the world have a higher carrying capacity as others, however the real issue lies in the global carrying capacity. As a whole we are increasingly diminishing our resources to the point where they cannot return back to their normal levels. Take a look at over fishing for an example...

This National Geographic article is really interesting and really shows the drastic effects of over fishing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/climate-change-is-shrinking-essential-fisheries/

Cool stats in regards to fitting all the humans into the size of Texas, sounds fun

But on a serious note, I think when most people think of overpopulation they're most likely thinking about resource scarcity and having to fight over resources. This is already a problem today if you look at certain middle eastern countries fighting over water: either freshwater, lakes, port access, etc. Imagine a scenario where world powers are fighting over drinking water for their people?

Then again I mean there are solutions that we don't know about yet to these brings -- either through turning salt walter into fresh water (currently happening just very expensive) or literally just growing food in labs (happening now, probably expensive and not profitable)

So we'll see where this goes. Maybe the forum will still be here, maybe not.

[Negotiation]

The main problem in our country is the population It is a densely populated country. Due to the increase in population people of the country face many problems. Health problems food crisis water pollution. To overcome these problems population growth must be controlled.

Even if government enforces strict rules on birth control still the existing problems won't resolve any quick so there must be other steps from governments and citizen to resolve them.First stop asking for jobs be your own boss, try to generate revenue for yourselves which also leads to government to make money.

Right, but I think that even though the government is moving towards making money the government needs to enforce strict rules for increasing the population. And the rest has to control itself It is never possible to live a comfortable life in this populous country.

[Subbir]

Talking about the environment, first of all we've to mention our solidarity, if we attempt to solve the issues ourselves without blaming anyone else for solving the matter, many problems are going to be reduced. If we all work together to stay the environment beautiful then the enduring environment are going to be beautiful. for instance, if there's no garbage left during a certain place or dumped under the bottom, it are often said that our surroundings are going to be far better.