Causes of Overpopulation

Overpopulation is one of the most serious threats to mankind. It's high time we identify and understand the causes of overpopulation and take steps to avoid it. To know more about the causes of overpopulation, read on…
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Atom i am planning to bear not more then 2 children after having sex with my wife. After either I will use or say my wife to use any means of family planning before having sexual intercourse. 11/28/2009
ayesha This information is good ,but there should be more points ... 11/7/2009
Sam what are some problems caused by overpopulation 10/17/2009
T Bolha S.Henderson makes some good points. We need to get at the root of the problem. I agree with Derrick Jensen when he wrote in Endgame about Civilized humans deifying themselves, seeing themselves as gods having domain over all the cosmos. This creates a separation from reality placing Civilized humans at top, as we try our best to impose this worldview onto non-civilized humans. The things you mention are symptoms of this worldview: Modern Med= Immortal gods. Even science subscribes to this worldview. If anyone is interested in understanding the causes of the Human-god complex read Columbus and other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes. And to anyone who believes Over-population is not a problem: Whenever a species that has dwindled down to a population small enough for them to decide they should place them on some extinction list, they (civilized people) often take them off that list as soon as they see the population go up a few measly thousand… Yet here we are over 7 billion. Almost all civilized people own cars, we require food, that food often comes from factory farms- more land, malls, roads, factories, landfills, houses, cities, airports… As the population grows so do our conflicts, our problems, the stress of traffic, finding jobs, walking down the street… In this case, Less would be more. Less people would mean a higher quality of life for those living, as tribal peoples used to enjoy until civilization comes along. Civilization is another symptom of the god-worldview, but it’s getting very top-heavy and will topple soon. The sooner the better. By no means am I saying tribal life is utopia, just the other day I saw on the news something about witch doctors in some tribe telling people to kill albinos so they can get their magical powers… But is that very different then a civilized person killing another civilized person for money? Civilized people like to think our ways are so much better and lead to less suffering, but tell that to the animals on extinction lists, the tribes we force off their lands, cancer patients, people driven insane by the stress of living in civilization, anyone killed so that corporations can thrive… Most people hate their jobs and are Wage Slaves. Again Henderson made some good points and so do you, but population is not the root of this, it’s a symptom. I suggest you read Endgame by Derrick Jensen. 10/9/2009
Mark it's just because of knowing the birth control method. 10/8/2009
Evon I think one of the most important factors that have led to overpopulation is over excessive food production. The world is constantly producing food to feed drastically more than what our population needs -yet there are stil starving people all over the planet...how bizarre. As long as people have food, as long as they can maintain this basic need, they can continue to populate the earth and will continue to do so. 10/1/2009
junjun gwapa c aiko 9/10/2009
nabiki onahi this is a very good article. the teenagers must read this article 9/9/2009
suzukia izumi because of reproduction our population grow bigger and bigger. you must control your self 9/9/2009
Maria Lorraina these article is very useful to many people especially many youths 9/9/2009
PDS i liked this articl. i had to do a report for high school on overpopulation and this gave me some great info 9/1/2009
sayed noorul ai please controle...over population in india ... 8/28/2009
jessa serrano can you gave answer the what will you do if it has a overpopulation... 7/27/2009
goutham provide more info 7/18/2009
nica when the population will continue to grow, certainly we will be facing more demands of foods and products. i think if that happens, there will be possibility that our necessities will also be facing extinction. 6/30/2009
Pablo Diablo I choose to not have kids so I am doing my part to control overpopulation. 6/19/2009
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joie i think this website is really informational. 4/15/2009
S Henderson This article has one thing right. Overpopulation is the gravest difficulty we now face. As for the rest, it is completely contradictory and is merely referring to the the drastic increase in the RATE of growth for the total global population. Advances in medicine and standards of living in the last 150 years are the cause of sudden, MASSIVE population expansion. This does not allow for the fact that since the advent of totalitarian agriculture, some 12,000 years ago, and the accompanying culture in which almost all of us now are part of, population growth has increased steadily, unceasingly and exponentially, except for the years of the Black Plague, which caused a very slight and short lived dip in the growth curve. I am so tired of reading short sighted articles that deny the truth - the human population has been increasing for thousands of years, almost without stopping, and we need to find the cause of THAT and solve it, now, today. Lack of education? Come ON! Seriously? Do you really believe that the majority of people in the 1600's were better educated than us? How on Earth then, did they manage to keep their populations from growing as fast as it has in the last FORTY years, given that their level of education and access to family planning (er, that's ZERO access) were so much less developed than ours? Perhaps you will attempt to explain this away by trotting out the old standby, high death rates. But then, the populations of the poorest nations on the planet (I assume that's who you are referring to when you mention the 'ignorant, unable to understand, 'illiterate lot of the world') should be doing just fine, given that AIDS is ravaging these suffering nations like no other disease of our time? One final gripe that I simply must mention - this article also makes it sound as though we have somehow cured people of death! All we have succeeded in doing is improving longevity and creating aging populations - as wonderful as a long life is, it is not the cause of overpopulation. Overall a pathetic article; guaranteed to spread misinformation, confusion, xenophobia and apportion blame where none is necessary. 4/14/2009
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2/23/2009
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Not Telling this is really great info! 1/27/2009
Britny I never would have guessed that education had something to do with the overpopulation that was going on in this economy these days. 1/8/2009
Valerie Lee A very good article. Overpopulation is defined in a great way!Thank you! 1/2/2009
Valerie A great article. Helped me answer my questions.Thank you. 1/2/2009
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Tambo Mkutengo Over population: Exposing the Myth

Kenya population 37.9m
Japan population: 127.3m
UK population: 60.9m

Kenya total land: 569,250 sq km
Japan total land: 374,744 sq km
UK total land: 241,590 sq km

Kenya population density 59 people per square km
Japan population density: 339 people per square km
UK population density: 246 people per square km

With the highest population density Japans GDP is twice that of the UK and Kenya put together. If Japan’s population were to drop to that of Kenya could it maintain its economic strength? In which country are the people most likely to suffer from lack of the basic necessities of life and which have the highest standard of living? Which country has the highest and lowest literacy rating? Note also that while most of Japan is impenetrable mountain the UK and Kenya are to a larger extent undulating plains or fertile valleys.

Exposing the myth of overpopulation will challenge the most literate and educated among us. It will demand of you a more investigative and analytical mind which will not just accept and echo perceived notions but will ask questions of those who put forward these ideas. Who is putting it forward? What are their objectives? Who is it directed at and what are the outcomes? Which of my three nations has active policies to increase or decrease their population?
8/3/2008
Bob Giles The biggest disaster that humans face now,is the out of control human population,that will destroy the very fabric of the human civilization.The earth has its limits to what it can provide,and this population that reaps that demand from the earth has stepped over that line of an irriversible disaster that now no one can stop,due to the arrogance of the world system,that is driven by money.
Theirs only one answer to the saviour of our exsistence.To abolish the monatary system,and to replace it with a system,where the world will be united as one.The monartary system,segragates people.A system of unity will intergrate people that will be in harmony with the surroundings.
7/29/2008
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