Overpopulation

I think this is the reason the Philippine Congress is doing their jobs to pass the so-called law on Reproductive Health. This has been an issue with the Catholic Church. I myself is with the passing of the law, just to slow down the population growth in the country. (neildc @ red/89/1770)

of course yes!! i do think that this is a very big problem and it is a cause for all problems!!! and i dont understand why people dont understand it!! and why they are not taking any necessary steps to reduce the population!

Last I heard, statistically speaking there are two deaths for every one birth. But the stats may have changed. Besides, i'm not worried about it anyway. There's more than enough room.

When I had my children I thought about it and decide on zero population growth. That means you have two children to replace you when you are gone ( one for each parent). I had 2 children by the time I was 23 and had my tubes tied at 26. The biggest problems in the world are caused by overpopulation because we are consuming more resources than the earth can provide.

I am not a "geography" person but I honestly believe that overpopulation will not harm us. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I believe that overpopulation at rural areas and underpopulation at cities will balance out each other. In countries like China, they are having serious overpopulation problems. But ever since the government introduced the one-child policy their population has dropped by a lot. This shows that overpopulation can be easily rectified by government policies. Also, many cities like Tokyo and Singapore are encountering underpopulation problems. These two extremes will hopefully balance out each other. Also, as the world becomes more and more globalized, there will be fewer of rural areas and more of cities and countries where the people are highly-educated and do not wish to give birth to broods of children. Hence overpopulation is not so much of a problem as people would like to think.