A large amount of people are really worried, while only a few are not. Perhaps those people know something that we do not. Perhaps there are far worse things to be concerned about at this current point in time. Overpopulation is possibly the very last thing that some people should be thinking about. It has been said that due to an overpopulation catastrophe, we will not be able to survive on Earth for too much longer. But research has shown that it is actually possible that the people on planet Earth will die out for some reason or another other than overpopulation. People should look into overpopulation more, so that they can see that it is not as big a problem as some people go and make it out to be.

The main and most significant thing that people should look at is the actual support of the Earth. How many people would actually be too much? Through some calculations it has been demonstrated that Earth is proficient enough to maintain tens of billions of people comfortably using all of the useful technology that we have today (Overpopulation). At this current time there are only a little more than six billion inhabitants all together world wide. That number is no where close to ten billion (Hoevel). People do not appear to notice the extremely apparent characteristic; that the world is pretty much unoccupied. Human beings actually take up no more than one to three percent of the earths overall land surface. “If you allotted 1,250 square feet to each person, all the people in the world would fit into the state of Texas. The population density of this very large city would be about 21,000 which would be somewhat more than San Francisco and less than the Bronx.” (Kasun).

A less noteworthy characteristic dealing with overpopulation is the facts about all of the deaths in the world. Every single day of the week that passes by, a large number of deaths are taking place. A couple of the greatest factors of all of the deaths in this world consist of wars, violent crimes, starvation or undernourishment, and also deadly illnesses. Approximately five million inhabitants of the Earth end up dieing every single year from illnesses associated with organic wastes single-handedly (Nahle). One more thing is that “the poorest fifth of people in countries with rapid population growth have twice as many children, on average, as the wealthy people in those same countries.” It has been reported in developing countries that there have been huge outbreaks occurring during some summers where some fifty- thousand people died from diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, Cholera and many others. Close to 97 percent of the world population growth that will occur between now and 2050 will all occur in these poor developing countries, where the governments are facing severe financial and societal challenges. (Hoevel). And for that reason, in these developing countries, one in every four children unfortunately died previous to his or her fifth birthday (Verburg).

The least important thing affecting the population, bringing it downwards instead of upwards, is all of the fertility rates found throughout the world to be under the normal amount. “Birth rates are down, folks are ageing and the attack on our health is working” (Overpopulation). Females in developing countries are at this time bearing on average, four children instead of six children like it was approximately twenty years ago. The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 59 countries, including Canada have fertility rates so low that they can not possibly be helped without the use of immigration. Canada, China, and Russia all have fertility rates around 1.8, while 2.1 is the needed fertility rate to maintain a zero growth. So they are shrinking along with Greece and Portugal at 1.5, and Spain at 1.4. So because of fertility rates, the population is dropping constantly (Verburg). The United Nations has discovered that 79 countries which consist of 40 percent of the world’s population at this time have fertility rates too low to put a stop to a population decline. Due to the plummeting fertility, there has been a very large impact in this world’s population. The rate of the population growth has actually been diminishing instead of increasing since all the way back into 1963. The rate of population expansion before the 1960’s was close to 2.4 percent. Currently, the rate has dropped all the way down too 1.27 percent (Nahle). So this is another thing that makes an overpopulation crisis seem pretty much impracticable at this current time in our long Earths history.

So many people say they have facts or proof that proves that an overpopulation crisis does undeniably exist. Some people set out and tried to link the disappearance of some species of animals and vegetation to overpopulation. The fact is that there actually are no scientific records at all that help support those people’s frequent claims. “We have no idea how many species are out there and how many are dieing”. There are quite a lot of species of animals like the blue whales, spotted owls, and black footed ferrets, which have all at one time or another seemed like they were on the verge of becoming extinct, but they were in point of fact more abundant than what was once thought to be. Because many of these species are found in the forests, they have just in fact been well concealed by all of the trees in the thick forests and canopies (Kasun).

Another enormous thing that people are worried about is the shortness of food. A great number of people are really concerned that there is not a sufficient amount of food and other resources on this planet to provide for the entire population, especially for a long period of time. Fortunately for us, that is not true at all. Food supplies have actually risen 27 percent per capita and the food production has risen an enormous 20 percent in developing countries since 1960 even though the world’s population has increased by around two billion people since that time. It has also been acknowledged that less than one-half of the world’s land that could be used for growing crops is currently being cultivated. And as for the largely talked about shortage of water, the problem is being overcome quickly through the process of sea water desalination, better water management, and also more dams and waterways are being built and used. It has been said that oil is also becoming a scarce commodity, while the truth is that all of Canada’s oil reserves have actually developed from 100 billion cubic meters in 1980, to about 158 billion cubic meters in 1993. At the same exact moment in time, the total energy requirements per unit of gross domestic product fell by approximately forty percent between 1965 and 1990 (Verburg).

Another thing that people are beginning to associate to overpopulation is the horrendous fact about global warming. It would make complete sense, if it actually were true. But, this is actually just another one of those things where there are absolutely no facts that prove in any way that overpopulation is directly linked to global warming. Another thing is that there have been satellite readings of worldwide temperatures which do not show any sort of a warming inclination in any way or form whatsoever. A number of respected climatologists like Hugh Ellsaesser, Richard Lindzen, and Robert Balling all say that there is absolutely no global warming danger, and that it is in no way associated with the world’s population (Kasun).

“Nothing ever continues at its present rate, neither the stock market nor population growth” (Hoevel). So, as Doug said it, even if we would have an overpopulation catastrophe, it would not remain that way for to terribly long. The truth is that there is an abundance of everything on this world, except common sense. It seems that the citizens that are running this world are running scams on us, and brain washing people into a scarcity state of mind, making people believe what ever they want (Overpopulation). “The overpopulation scare may be the biggest single mistake in the history of social science” (Narveson).