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General Science / For a given area, is there a population limit which can be sustained?
« on: 03/08/2015 23:21:01 »
The Earth is 2/3 or 3/4 salt water. Yes, there are some fish which can sustain some people's need for food. There are deserts and there are frozen areas and there are mountainous places on the planet. And some few people can be sustained in each of those areas. But it is obvious that humans must have regulations against overfishing. Or the greed of the harvesters will cause the extinction of fishing grounds just like the passenger pigeon went extinct by people killing it for food. Constantly, organizations ask for money to buy food for the poor, starving people living here or there instead of asking for condoms or for birth control pills or for education on family planning. In fact, republicans in the USA are on a mission to de-fund planned parenthood and women's health.
The only alternative to neglect family planning and to determine how many people can live in any given area is for nature and the most base human nature to curtail overpopulation by nature causing the deaths of millions of humans by disasters, starvation, diseases, or by the most coarse of humans killing other humans such as in wars.
The Earth is a life raft afloat in space. Yes, the Earth can sustain some life in growing areas as long as pollution can have dilution in the soil and in the waters. But how many people can be sustained in the long term over farm lands versus the short terms of population growth and then, death by nature or other humans?
The only alternative to neglect family planning and to determine how many people can live in any given area is for nature and the most base human nature to curtail overpopulation by nature causing the deaths of millions of humans by disasters, starvation, diseases, or by the most coarse of humans killing other humans such as in wars.
The Earth is a life raft afloat in space. Yes, the Earth can sustain some life in growing areas as long as pollution can have dilution in the soil and in the waters. But how many people can be sustained in the long term over farm lands versus the short terms of population growth and then, death by nature or other humans?