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« on: November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM »
I found an interesting article today that says that overpopulation is about to peak and then decline sharply due to declining fertility rates. Here's the article: http://www.reason.com/news/show/34848.html

What are your thoughts on this? Is the world overpopulated now? Headed for overpopulation? Or is Ronald Bailey correct in saying that overpopulation is a myth?

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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM »
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What are your thoughts on this?

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Is the world overpopulated now?

No.

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Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.

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Or is Ronald Bailey correct in saying that overpopulation is a myth?

Many populations are reproducing at below replacement level, but there is a growing problem with Islamic colonialists rapidly outbreeding us infidels in some parts of the world, especially in Europe.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2008, 06:16:55 AM »
I believe God has a plan in place, and the spike of human population growth is a part of that plan.  What that plan is, I don't know.

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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM »
Quote from: Mere Nick on November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

What are your thoughts on this?

Deep and very profound.

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Is the world overpopulated now?

No.
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Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.



Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2008, 11:57:52 AM »
Quote from: Howdyboyalan on December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
Quote from: Mere Nick on November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

What are your thoughts on this?

Deep and very profound.

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Is the world overpopulated now?

No.
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Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.



Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

Well, I'm not a Malthusian, so go figure.
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« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2008, 11:59:16 AM »
If its overpopulated where you live, move.
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2008, 01:25:44 AM »
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Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

Says who? That's a fantasy number made up by no growth flat earth EnviroMarxists.
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« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2008, 04:00:42 PM »
Quote from: Howdyboyalan on December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

You could theoretically change that (if true) simply by planting a garden or tree though.
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« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2008, 05:50:47 PM »
No, the earth is not over populated...certain sections are, but certain sections are grossly under populated as well.

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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2009, 12:28:01 PM »
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM
I found an interesting article today that says that overpopulation is about to peak and then decline sharply due to declining fertility rates. Here's the article: http://www.reason.com/news/show/34848.html

What are your thoughts on this? Is the world overpopulated now? Headed for overpopulation? Or is Ronald Bailey correct in saying that overpopulation is a myth?

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There is enough grub in the world for everyone, its just badly distributed.  A family of for in the West sitting round their Christmas Dinner, it could have fed a whole village of folks in the third world.
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« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2009, 12:52:33 PM »
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Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM
I found an interesting article today that says that overpopulation is about to peak and then decline sharply due to declining fertility rates. Here's the article: http://www.reason.com/news/show/34848.html

What are your thoughts on this? Is the world overpopulated now? Headed for overpopulation? Or is Ronald Bailey correct in saying that overpopulation is a myth?

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There is enough grub in the world for everyone, its just badly distributed.  A family of for in the West sitting round their Christmas Dinner, it could have fed a whole village of folks in the third world.

In that case, it isn't the case that grub is badly distributed, but liberty, which includes private property rights. 
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They turned me loose from the nervous hospital.  Said I was well.  Mmm hmm.

Suffering for your beliefs is called faithfulness, making others suffer for your beliefs is called being a jerk.

His cross, like the ark in the wilderness, is the center around which his people are to encamp; so that they cannot separate into factions, or withdraw from each other, without retiring at the same time from the presence of the cross.
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« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2009, 04:56:44 PM »
Quote from: Howdyboyalan on December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
Quote from: Mere Nick on November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

What are your thoughts on this?

Deep and very profound.

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Is the world overpopulated now?

No.
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Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.



Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

Who says they're all supposed to live like a Westerner? Who says the Western life style is preferable?
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« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2009, 11:32:01 PM »
Quote from: HRoberson on February 16, 2009, 04:56:44 PM
Quote from: Howdyboyalan on December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
Quote from: Mere Nick on November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

What are your thoughts on this?

Deep and very profound.

Quote
Is the world overpopulated now?

No.
Quote
Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.



Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

Who says they're all supposed to live like a Westerner? Who says the Western life style is preferable?

That's what I want to know.  For many of us, when our European ancestors came here they discovered societies that didn't have income taxes, the men spent the day hunting and fishing, and the women did all the work. 
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taller, better looking and smarter . . .

They turned me loose from the nervous hospital.  Said I was well.  Mmm hmm.

Suffering for your beliefs is called faithfulness, making others suffer for your beliefs is called being a jerk.

His cross, like the ark in the wilderness, is the center around which his people are to encamp; so that they cannot separate into factions, or withdraw from each other, without retiring at the same time from the presence of the cross.
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2009, 09:58:35 PM »
Quote from: HRoberson on February 16, 2009, 04:56:44 PM
Quote from: Howdyboyalan on December 01, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
Quote from: Mere Nick on November 30, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: admin on November 30, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

What are your thoughts on this?

Deep and very profound.

Quote
Is the world overpopulated now?

No.
Quote
Headed for overpopulation?

Too many muslims.



Are you trying to be self contradictory?

It isn't so muich that our earth is over populated, it is over-populated for our ability to harness its resources. It would 2.5 times the number of 'earths' to sustain the western life style if every single person on the planet lived like a westerner.

Who says they're all supposed to live like a Westerner? Who says the Western life style is preferable?

Cheers for that.
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« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2009, 01:04:10 PM »
If you compare the population to the amount of food supply, then yes, we are becoming overpopulated. The point will come in the future when there will not be enough natural resources to sustain the population. Synthetic foods will have to be produced or there will be food wars in much the same way we are now experiencing oil wars. If not synthetic foods, then synthetic agricultural environments. Such as, growing crops in artificial environments in the sea.
I think the world will not be able to continue growing as it is. Technology will have to change to support it.

I think the line of thinking that one group should survive and another shouldn't, is Darwinistic type thinking. It's flawed thinking and against Christianity as Christ taught. If we all work together, we can all benefit. To be one in the Spirit is The Way. In this world and the next. When the world learns this, then it will be a better place to live. "..And they shall learn war no more."
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...And they began to say, each one to another; Come on! Let us make bricks and bake them with a burning process. So brick served as stone for them, but bitumen served as mortar for them. They now said; Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with it's top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth. Genesis 11:3-4

Woe to the one that is making evil gain for his house, in order to set his nest on the height, so as to be delivered from the grasp of what is calamitous! Habakkuk 2:9
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