Is our earth becoming over populated?

Yeah, it's becoming overpopulated. When Native Americans roamed the Earth. They could gather, people used to be able to be nomads and eat. Now, many places, there is less than an acre for a family. If you plan it right and work at it, in a good year, some people can eat with an acre of land (if vegetarian). Used to be when too much feces in an area or polution from various human waste, many Native American groups could move to another location. Now I look around and where would a person move to? There are very few places without polution. Every river where I live is dirty, mostly yellowish brown, mostly not insufficiently processed human feces from run off from septic tanks. The city is not much better, has processing plants, but often that is full of heavy metals when it leaves the plant and ends up in our lake. Our fishing guide (a publication) says there isn't any place in Lake Champlain where the fish should be eaten out of it. Another water area, near the Alcoa plant was killing Native American children until the Natives proved it with $ and independent scientists/researches. Then Alcoa made an attempt to clean it up while still using it. Human beings have a maximum saturation point per area like any other creature. Some places can sustain more people than others, but no place was meant to have this many people. After 2 children, go on birth control. Actually, since we have too many people, it should be after one. Some places like China already have the after one child theory, but they're over a billion.

People only occupy about 5% of the earths surface. As for regulating the number of children a person can have.....NO that would be one of the ultimate manifestations of an orweliian nightmare.

Not in my country. It is still far under-populated in where I stay but the problem has been with the illegal refugees that multiple faster than the locals. Many countries have enforced the '2 children' policy. I see many countries are over populated and their Government should encourage family planning to their citizens so they won't have too many children running around not having much food to eat.

It is interesting to find out the population of each country. Then consider the size of the country. It can be worked out how many people live in each square kilo meter. In Australia most people live near to the coast and few people live in the center. Western Australia hasn't as many people as New South Wales. Less than 20 million people live in Australia. It attracts migrants that are highly skilled. Australia is not over populated. I guess that the USA has a much larger population than Australia. I know that China has the one child policy. Putting laws in place for how many children each couple have are challenging. A lady can have a surprise pregnancy. Some ladies have twins. Abortion is not morally right. I think governments should make people aware of how many people live in their country. They could use a tax system to make it financially attractive to have up to one or two children. It would be less financially attractive to have more than two children for example. I would like to see adoption become more popular.

Yes, the biggest problem mankind faces is overpopulation. While there is a lot of the earth that has few people, there are very large areas of the earth that are not suitable for people to live. People are removing the forest of the Earth at an astonishing rate and this as much as anything else is causing problems. Population control is a very touchy subject but if it is not addressed at some point, then starvation, disease and nature will do it.

The earths population has grown out of control many times in history. Then a plague or war comes along and wipes out huge portions of the population. As it is now, AIDS is going to decimate Africa unless a cure is found. There will be other pandemics like the swine flu that will wipe out large portions of the population.

yes, the fact is in a way we are overpopulated. but not just in the typical numbers. we are overpopulated in the sense that earth's resources are over-utilized and we have not yet figured out a way to re-use or recycle energy that would benefit the only livable planet we could possibly have at present. about 80% of our resources, believe it or not is used by only 5% of the population... clean water included. so it's not merely population control, but more so on a more efficient use of earth's resources. the more technologically advanced we get, the more pollution is emitted (air, water, land, and the emerging fourth... stress.) human nature is a complex matter that some may agree or disagree on population control issues and how we go about it. somehow, natural disasters is nature's way to communicating a message with us... not because we are overly populated, but it's high time we educate ourselves and the next generations on how to better care for the only home we have in this planetary system.

Hi friend, dont mind pliz but i want to say u .... Let them go. Yes, ur thoughts r 100% right. U know my india is second highest populated country next to china. Thanksg

In general I would say that the earth is not over-populated. However, I do think that there are certain places that are over populated. Like New York City as an example. I don't think it would be right for any government to put a limit on how many children that a person was able to have. To me, it just wouldn't be fair. Some people are meant to be parents while others are not and to feel like you should have children would be very painful to many individuals.