Gross Overpopulation Is One Issue That Is Suicide For Any Politician To Address. We Are In Crisis.

[JCanete]

25. Its been a long time since I researched this, but I thought we were sleighted to increase in

population up to 2050, and then start to decline.

The US, China and India(again if I recall), are all having less babies than would sustain or increase the population levels. Which seems to be a result of the advent of two-income family structures, and possibly some level of empowerment and higher education/opportunities that that entails for women in the workforce. There's probably an ugly element to this too that is about the cost of having and supporting a child.

Tragically, places with very high mortality rates, or rather, very low life expectancy levels, do have high birth rates, and while they represent a humanitarian crisis, for which the US and Europe in particular deserve a lot of the blame(in my opinion), I'm not sure that that current condition is resulting in much of a population spike.


That said, global warming is going to reduce land-mass, and disrupt food supplies, destroy crops, etc. and we've already killed over 50 percent of ocean species...and land that we either pave over or kill from misuse doesn't simply come back and become farmable, and the increase of the luxury of eating meat in places like china is not just a contributor to global warming but is a vastly inefficient return on the land that we farm for food.

So I would not disagree that we're in a crisis when it comes to overpopulation, but without massive loss of human life to some sort of man-made or natural disaster, we've still got decades before we peak.