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The world is overpopulated

SeanRenaud posted on Mar 18, 2007 | views: 968 | Tags: population, wrong, overpopulation, hunger, world, food, times, Overpopulation or bad breeding, people, Too many, land
One last time kidlets, this simply is not the fact and if you can bring ANY inteligent arguement lets get some facts here.  The total population of the world is: 6,581,000,00re Which since it will be true soon enough from this point forward I'm going to assue there are 10 billion people on this earth.
 
The land mass of the world is 148,939,100 km2 (How do I make soulcast say squared?)  I'm going to use 100 million square kilometers, mostly for ease of math.
1km = 247.105 381 467 acre  I'm going to use 200, again shrinking the figure for ease of math.
200x100million= 20 billion, we're all on the same page here right?  Thats enough land world wide to give EVERY SINGLE human being alive today 2 acres of land.  (And blacks still can't get reparations.  Maybe there aren't enough mules :-P)
 
So the problem obviously isn't space, I mean especially when you take into acount families and friends and communities generally don't need or even desire to be two acres apart.  
 
The next usual question is food.  We have plenty, the fact that we have a hard time getting it properly distributed is an entirely different issue and in all likelihood do to genetics we sill soon be able to produce even more food than we currently are.


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  • mom said on Mar 18, 2007....
    wow Sean you are really good with math.  I am impressed. 
  • bloc said on Mar 18, 2007....
    i agree, the world isn't overpopulated, but be careful with oversimplifying in statistics like these. How much of that land mass is not fertile or desirable?

    Our biggest problem is overconsumption.
  • SeanRenaud said on Mar 18, 2007....
    If the land isn't fertile build condos on it so we can maximize the amount of fertile land used for growing food.  As for undesirable, honestly the only counter to that point is that if we were overcrowded (which you already agreed we're not) then anyland becomes more desirable.
  • kelly said on Mar 19, 2007....
    Squared is often represented like this: x^2
  • EzGoing said on Mar 19, 2007....
    1 acre = 0.0040468564224 km²
  • silverwhisper said on Mar 19, 2007....
    sean: there's probably HTML for superscript (which evidently ezgoing knows).

    as bloc notes, not all land is the same: would you rather be in san diego or some random desert? :>

    ed
  • SeanRenaud said on Mar 19, 2007....
    Palm Springs is a desert.  :-P.  Humans are pretty damn resourceful when it comes to changing the terrian.   Still point taken some places are more desireably than others.
  • Holly-Go-Lightly said on Mar 19, 2007....
    Hey Sean... you brought up a valid point when you talked about world hunger.  I just read last week that in the United States, we throw out enough good, edible food to feed all of the hungry in our entire nation.
    This is unconscionable to me, that grocery stores and restaurants throw out perfectly good food (into a locked dumpster, because, you know, we don't want the rabble-otherwise known as starving people, digging threw our filthy, infested trash bin to eat a bit of leftover steak for free, when inside the restaurant that steak goes for $18.50) when there are so many people they could have helped.
    I know it can be done, I've seen it-restaurants who have joined with community outreach programs to donate each night's "throwaways".
    I think the hunger problem seems easier to tackle then overpopulation at this time. I mean, it's alot easier to distribute food then it is to stop people from shagging...
  • mlw32785 said on Mar 19, 2007....
    What can I say? Good Job! Figuring everything out!
     
  • biglove said on Mar 19, 2007....
    Is the world overpopulated? That depends on your definition of "overpopulated". If your definition is people breeding new guest for the Jerry Springer show at rapid rates, entire generations of family's born into welfare and the penale system, ingnorant, violent, rude, simple, lazy losers with their mindless yammering polluting the air and sucking society and the resources dry, then YES!! we are overpopulated and I don't care what formula you use to calculate the land mass of this planet, that is a number greater than I care to see on paper!
  • bloc said on Mar 19, 2007....
    @biglove
    I agree, but what you're describing isn't overpopulation. It's a lack of emotional and spiritual growth in large portions of our society.
  • SeanRenaud said on Mar 19, 2007....
    Well until I can convince people that euthanizing Spartan style is a positive thing we are going to deal with Jerry Springer folk. 
     
    And they out breed people who are inteligent.
  • kelly said on Mar 20, 2007....
    They have since the beginning of time.  A natural distribution of intelligence that follows a Gaussian curve guarantees that a good deal of the population isn't going to be all that bright.  It's life as usual.

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