Overpopulation

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).