(over)population - doomsters vs boomsters

[Renampun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI1AaZ9OkH8

An interesting video on the topic of potential overpopulation of Earth. The doomers say that the growth is unsustainable and will result in a catastrophe, the boomers like Elon Musk are saying that we actually need more people and that society will crumble if population will keep declining, like it does in many countries.

The conclusion of this video is that most scientist think that the global population will grow at little bit more and then will shrink a little bit and stabilize around the sustainable level.

What do you think?

I've also watched this debate about over-population in a video on YouTube...

I agree with the opinion of one party who says that;

"actually we are not over-populated (now or in the future), it's just that the distribution of humans is uneven (accumulating in big cities only), this is what causes the earth to look like over-population even though not at all"

regeneration is important and humans need new people to keep the human population alive.

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What do you think?

Over population is a doomster if you ask me, though it varies from country to country, there are countries that even with low population, the economy is so bad that citizens can hardly feed well, live well, or have good jobs to do, then imagine a situation where such a country becomes over populated, it will be a disaster for the human race in such a country.
I think the simple term "too much of everything is bad" also applies to world population, if it becomes too much, it is bad, forget what Elon musk is saying, he's a joker.

[crzy]

India is set to overthrown China as the most populated country and this could be a bigger problem for a small country if they experienced the same problem on the growing population. Some countries though have their own problem with the population, just like in Japan where most of their workers are set to retire and there’s no enough younger generation to continue the legacy, I guess the problem here are also about the cost of living especially on a bigger country.

[dothebeats]

Overpopulation is a huge threat to the balance in ecosystem and also in nature. As more and more humans populate the world, more and more resources would be needed to feed these mouths and where would these resources be taken? From nature. People will continuously rape our natural resources to get food on the plate until such time that they will get nothing.

Elon Musk is a visionary, I get that, but his remarks regarding population is half-baked. True that we need people to run our industries and this world, but how could you do populate more people in a sustainable way if even nations can't agree on things to make this planet more habitable for the next 50 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI1AaZ9OkH8

An interesting video on the topic of potential overpopulation of Earth. The doomers say that the growth is unsustainable and will result in a catastrophe, the boomers like Elon Musk are saying that we actually need more people and that society will crumble if population will keep declining, like it does in many countries.

The conclusion of this video is that most scientist think that the global population will grow at little bit more and then will shrink a little bit and stabilize around the sustainable level.

What do you think?

I've also watched this debate about over-population in a video on YouTube...

I agree with the opinion of one party who says that;

"actually we are not over-populated (now or in the future), it's just that the distribution of humans is uneven (accumulating in big cities only), this is what causes the earth to look like over-population even though not at all"

regeneration is important and humans need new people to keep the human population alive.

And even if we distributed humans in every land mass evenly, we will still have problems for food security. That is the single, most critical thing that pro-population fail to acknowledge. Resource limitations will eventually slam at us at high speed and soon we'll struggle to have our mouths fed for a day.

[robattfield]

Elon Musk is smart, but that doesn't mean he always brings up the right issues in masculinity in life. We only see the negative issues surrounding it and blame them as the cause, but in fact there are many other problems involved. I very much hope that the population increases and people still love each other more and get along better in many fields so they can go up together, not win or lose or compete in every small thing. Perhaps as far as I know, the population is only a small part that determines the quality of life. Instead, try to change the perception of all and equality, not one-sidedly in the direction of control to suppress or increase.

[bittraffic]

Elon Musk is smart, but that doesn't mean he always brings up the right issues in masculinity in life. We only see the negative issues surrounding it and blame them as the cause, but in fact there are many other problems involved. I very much hope that the population increases and people still love each other more and get along better in many fields so they can go up together, not win or lose or compete in every small thing. Perhaps as far as I know, the population is only a small part that determines the quality of life. Instead, try to change the perception of all and equality, not one-sidedly in the direction of control to suppress or increase.

Unfortunately suppressing each other is what is going on in every way since the time one country successfully invade and conquered countries. We despise leaders who do this but in the books, we call them the GREAT like Alexander the GREAT!  We made them heroes when they conquered lands that were occupied before them and we hail them, Discoverers!

Doomster or Boomster, we all have to think of ways and some had already found it since they were eating insects that can grow in weeks. We don't have to fight over gas and oil and bomb lands if we were just friendly to each other, not seeing ourselves like we are more exceptional than other races because we are in this earth together.

[jrrsparkles]

Population around the world will not shrink unless a deadly disease with no cure evolves and probably it should have enough potential to wipe the complete humans to make that happen but the pandemic like COVID-19 or Ebola or previous century pandemic like HIV and all others are still exists but it doesn't reduce the population growth rate so the population will increase not stabilize at any point until the nature decides it.

[Ultegra134]

The issue IMO is not overpopulation or underpopulation. All around the world, people with high IQ are being replaced with people with lower IQ. Population growth is taking place in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East, where the people are illiterate and unskilled. On the other hand, maximum population decline is being noted in regions such as East Asia (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea.etc), where there is 100% literacy. In the long term, this brings down the levels of human innovation. 

As awful as it may sound, you're right. Western countries are facing underpopulation, due to the financial crisis and the deteriorating situation, the west isn't having children. Third world developing countries, however, in Asia (see Indonesia, India) or Africa, are extremely overpopulated, often living in terrible living conditions, with poor hygiene and housing, lacking access to water and food.