Website review: Overpopulation: The Human Populatio...
redneckdriver discovered this in Ecology
•25 reviews since May 7, 2008
ecology, environment
•cosmosmith.com/human_population_crisis.htm
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javamanjoe rated 3 months ago- THE HUMAN OVERPOPULATION OF THE PLANET Thanks 'berrypicker'. One thing which must be taken into consideration is the amount of time, money, and effort we have spent toward saving and extending lives. Billions of dollars have been spent in this field, and successfully. However, something that we also must look at is the effect this has had on our own number. How much have we contributed to birth control, family planning, and preservation of the environment? Nature is a balance of existence. In order to coincide with nature, we must balance the saving and extending of lives with controlling the number of lives which we produce. We mustn't use resources any faster than they can be reproduced. We need to respect ourselves by learning to respect the environment which we depend on for our own existence. If not, we will cease to exist.
- berrypicker rated 3 months ago
- HUMAN POPULATION CRISIS by James Hopkins If you were to take a standard sheet of writing paper .1mm thick and cut it into two sheets, placing one atop the other, it would then be .2mm thick. Then, cutting the stack of two and making a stack of 4 sheets, it would then be .4mm thick. Believe it or not, if you continued to do this just one hundred times, doubling the size of the stack each time, the thickness of the stack would be 1.334 x 1011 light-years. This is an example of exponential growth, where the rate of growth is always proportional to it's present size. Exponential growth also applies to the the human population. It begins growing very slowly, but over generations the growth rate increases more and more rapidly, similar to a snowball affect. It took the human population thousands of years to reach 1 billion in 1804. However, it took only 123 years for us to double to 2 billion in 1927. The population hit 4 billion in 1974 (only 47 years), and if we continue at our current rate, the human population will reach 8 billion in 2028. Doubling from our present count of 6.6 billion to 13.2 billion will have a much greater impact than our last couple doublings combined. Overpopulation is not population density (amount of people per landmass), but rather the number of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities. So much focus is placed on the rapid population growth in third world countries. However, when we compare lifestyles of the rich countries vs. the poor countries, the rich countries are a much greater problem. Just as much as the population size, we need to consider the resources consumed by each person, and the damage done by technologies used to supply them."
- Aquiles rated 3 months ago
- So mankind dominates the world. If it is so why men cannot get rid of ants, roaches, flies and rats?
- ThisIsNotKasker rated 3 months ago
- I know of this character.
- ajanelle rated 3 months ago
- great, i get to be the only negative-- the site would be nice if it actually said something. are people really unaware of overpopulation? i doubt it.
- SillyAshles rated 3 months ago
- Stop making (so many) babies, people.
- Solidarity1 rated 3 months ago
- Gaia will take care of this if we don't.
- neokx87 rated 3 months ago
- we are growing like bunnies and kangeroos.. remember what they do to them in australia?
- bariloche rated 3 months ago
- This makes worrying about climate change a bit futile. What chance do we have with this sort of growth?
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