
Welcome number 300 million. Wedge yourself in here and take note of what your future holds.
The Earth's limited supply of natural resources will only be able to sustain 2 billion humans by 2100, bad news for a world that already feeds 5.9 billion. The optimum human population, or carrying capacity, for the U.S. is projected to be 200 million, which is millions fewer than the current population. Disappearing stocks of fertile land, fresh water, fossil fuel energy, plants and animal life will control human population the old-fashioned way-through starvation and disease-if we cannot reduce our numbers voluntarily. http://www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkcapcty.html
The world has limited natural resources, to think that it will be able to support the explosive growth of human populations is pure folly. The supplies of clean water, fossil fuels, and food are becoming increasingly scarce. Many areas of the U.S. are experiencing tremendous shortages of water at our current population level. Where will drinking and irrigation water come from to supply a population of 600 million sixty years from now? You may be able to fuel your car with an alternative energy source but there is no substitute for water. We are being warned to limit our consumption of seafood. The worlds oceans have been polluted to the point of making seafood toxic. Water supplies and croplands across the nation face a similar fate with heavy metals and toxic chemicals leeching out of landfills into the supply of drinking water and depositing themselves in food crops.
Nature has a way of dealing with out of control populations. Starvation, disease and violence are the great equalizers that return animal populations to sustainable numbers.
There are too many people on the planet and nobody is going to volunteer to get off.
1 comments:
I agree that the world is way overpopulated and that is the biggest factor in all the worlds problems. keep posting articles like this and hopefully it will have an affect on some people!
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