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sharpjwe
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It may seem that way...but don't worry it's going to reach a level at which it will remain. People in industrial countries are having less or no children and set trends that other nations adopt some time later. Now something seemingly grazy: There is no need to have children in the future as peoples' life expectancy increases and eventually reach a point where dying will be the exception. + ...We will inhabit other planets eventually...so plenty of room for everyone;-)
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I guess the answer depends on expectations. If you are conserned about humans starving then, the answer varies from place to place but would probably be ok for a while if we had better distribution systems. If you are concerned about whether there are too many people to maintain natural ecosystems, then were passed the overpopulation mark a long time ago. Natural ecosystems continue to disappear at an alarming rate. Species are still going extinct on a scale that is on par with the mass extinctions of eons past. Arid land is turning to desert. Global warming, fragmented landscapes, etc. We are definitely overpopulated from any reference to natural ecosystems. We are perhaps not messing things up as quickly as before in the US, but globally we continue to populate and impact ecosystems with no sign of letting up in some places.
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Yes it is. It will get much worse if people continue to breed.
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No...it's still has some space left...particularly Antarctica!
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yes and it doesn't help when couples have so many children they can have their own baseball team JUST because God told them to. Sorry, I believe if there is a God he gives you enough common sense to know when enough is enough. The world is already overpopulated and those things don't help
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Not yet, but I suspect we're close. Food distribution is the biggest problem; people insist on using food to get rich instead of for feeding the hungry. But our major population problem is currently in the Third World. Industrialized nations have much lower rates of increase, and some even have a decrease.
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Not at all, it's just the big cities that are overpopulated.
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Yes it is, If I remember people are supposed to have 5 square feet of green space (Trees or oxygen providers), and we're outweighing a bit too much, under exaggerating of course. Found this out through my science class, but I can't remember the details exactly so the numbers might be wrong and some of the facts...
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we have overshot the mark by around 5 billion, the population is still growing, and even the strongest voluntary population reduction measures through birth control will not have enough effect. By 2050 population is expected to reach 9 billion. At the same time, die to ecosystem failure, by 2030 the carrying capacity of the Earth will be reducing at the rate of 1 billion per decade. The bottom line is we are headed for a crash to the tune of 85% of our population by 2080 , barring divine/alien intervention or colonising other planets.
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A little bit of overpopulation and a little bit of overuse of resources. Everyone has an ecological footprint. It has been estimated that if everyone in the world had as large an ecological footprint as the average US citizen, we would need four more planet Earths.
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NO,BUT THE USA WILL BE SOON=CHECK NEW LAW JAN 27 OR 29/09
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