The Earth is overpopulated? (Page 2) LiptonCambell: Not to mention the idea that overpopulation is a thing, is an idea bounced around for the last 200 years- and yet, with 10 times as many people, we've reduced poverty, starvation, malnutrition, less children dying and less people dying from childbirth, increased education, live expectancy and opportunities- there's less land to go around, yes, but we've done more with the land we have, and done more to improve the lives of people. You hear the stories of "the widening gap between rich and poor"- but that's only when looking at one or two of the worlds richest countries- when you look at the globe, things have monumentally improved. Sure, people in California aren't all owning three-car garages anymore, but more importantly, the people who couldn't afford food before now can. I like to think that's an important trade-off LiptonCambell: https://www.vat19.com/item/lifestraw-water-filter Purchase this one product, and they'll give clean drinking water for a child for a year(prob by giving them the product)  Dorkencakes: Water (and the lack thereof) already is a problem in many places causing floods and droughts.  ghostgeek: Funny isn't it. Global warming is going to flood the planet ( so we are told ) and people are worried about a shortage of water.
 M3lK4t: ^^wouldn't be worried about rising water levels if only there was a way to turn seawater into drinking water, if only there was a way to build floating cities...  davidk14: . Hey folks....there is about the same amount of water on the planet as was when the planet was covered by water. Yah know what that means...right? If you don't know how to tread water...yah better learn. LiptonCambell: >>> if only there was a way to turn seawater into drinking water, if only there was a way to build floating cities... Necessity is the mother of all inventions. 200 years ago they didn't think there was enough food for half a billion people- but we've progressed food far enough that less people are starving now than in all of recorded history....you can't just conclude that since we don't have the solution now that there isn't people looking to solve the problem... LiptonCambell: ....covered by water? Like a water world? I don't think we ever got that bad...we've always had landmasses.... davidk14: . The world was completely covered with water. A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet. Just 2% to 3% of the Earth’s surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today. http://metro.co.uk/2008/12/31/early-earth-was-covered-in-water-274995/#ixzz3uLqOvL34 .  Big Bopper: It won't take a billion years to flood, but mankind will have extinguished itself before then, I'm sure. I only need dry land for another 30 years, 35 if I'm unlucky. I, meanwhile, will enjoy everything I can until the end! davidk14: . How about this... Earth was created 4 billion years ago and was a big ass ball of fire. Earth is halfway through it's life expectancy. So, in 4 billion years from now, the sun will have depleted its energy and go nova and take the earth with it. So, how long will life on this planet go on? Probably in a different form. Dinosaurs lived about 150 millions. About 65 million years ago they went bye bye. Adios. If the human race just survives 10,000 it will be amazing with the speed that we are destroying the eco-system...however, most likely, another asteroid will hit earth, kill off most of the life and the earth will just naturally regenerate itself. It will take a couple million years but life will survive for many more millions of years. Someday, maybe in 65 million years, some future life form will look back at us dig up something and wonder wtf was an automobile. Ahhhhhhhh. . Dorkencakes: Couldn't we kind of turn it around peacefully if everyone just had fewer kids for about 20 years? LiptonCambell: >>>Earth is halfway through it's life expectancy. So, in 4 billion years from now, the sun will have depleted its energy and go nova and take the earth with it. So much wrong with that statement.... -The SUN is halfway in it's life, not the Earth -The Earth may die before the sun does- this will be by the core solidifying and our magnetic shield dying. We will be blasted with radiation, and the water will disappear into space -The sun will not go nova. It will eventually be forced to burn other resources, expanding quickly and turning into a red giant, likely engulfing us....but that's not a supernova....the sun is too small for a supernova..... davidk14: . David said: Earth is halfway through it's life expectancy. So, in 4 billion years from now, the sun will have depleted its energy and go nova and take the earth with it. Lipton said: So much wrong with that statement.... -The SUN is halfway in it's life, not the Earth David responds: I stand corrected. I should have said, “…Best case scenario, Earth is halfway through it's life expectancy. So, in 4 billion years from now, the sun will have depleted its energy and go nova and take the earth with it. . SWlNE: There is enough physical space and resources but there is a lot of wasting and an uneven distribution of population (and resources). Dorkencakes: True, space isn't the problem is it? I did the numbers once and came out with a biomass of about 1 mile x 1 mile x 600 feet.  calybonos: I question your 600 feet figure. Even taking into account the amputees, with over 7 billion people on this planet, we have to have more than 600 feet. How else do you explain all those shoe factories? | Off Topic Chat Room 1 Person Chatting Similar Conversations |
