Report: 82% of Scientists Say Overpopulation is a Major Problem
https://medium.com/@hrnews1/report-82-of-scientists-say-overpopulation-is-a-major-problem-02b4160aaf9a
Report: 82% of Scientists Say Overpopulation is a Major Problem
https://medium.com/@hrnews1/report-82-of-scientists-say-overpopulation-is-a-major-problem-02b4160aaf9a
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ss: Despite What Billionaires(musk, bezos ets) Say: The Scientific Consensus on Overpopulation Is A Growing Concern
Overpopulation remains a contentious issue, but scientific evidence increasingly points to it as a significant global challenge. This statistic underscores the growing scientific consensus on the issue.
In biological systems, electrical systems, mechanical systems, etc., if the load (population, current, stress) gets too high, the system fails.
Some say that the population will not grow exponentially. Current population statistics predict that we will peak at 10-11 billion.But this is just a prediction.
Predicting the future of demographics is becoming increasingly difficult. For example, many countries in Central Asia have seen explosive increases in birth rates over the past decade after declining birth rates.
In South Korea, births have started to rebound since the middle of this year when the government started to give money and apartments to those who get married and have children, and marriage in particular has increased by over 20%.
Don’t need science for what common sense should tell you.
With birth rates plummeting- those 18% are looking pretty smart.
You want perspective? Look at the stats on how many people are born and die each day on a worldwide scale.
Birth rates are dropping even in places where they were outrageously high. The question is will we hit the knee in the population curve before things collapse? Will global warming create a food crisis with mass famine and force a correction sooner? There are many open questions that will take decades to answer.
The birth rate crisis is only a crisis because capitalism needs more meat to grind for their unsustainable infinite growth, but in actuality we’re still overpopulated.
Birth rates can’t drop enough! Nature will only be free when the earth is cleansed from man’s pollution!!!!
Nono, see Line Must Go Up. Many must die, many forced births must occur.
(but also lol no affordable housing or healthcare lmao what do you think we are, commies?)
This ~~Blog post~~ “article” cites a single survey from a decade ago… Birthrate statistics are drastically different now, I believe currently most scientist believe the population will level off around 11B now
They are citing a single study from 2015, and we don’t even know how that study was conducted, WTF is this?
It would have been funny if it said “120% of scientists say overpopulation is a major problem”
South Korea has shown considerable results. The number of births has recently shown positive growth compared to the previous year, and the number of marriages has increased by over 20%. The reason is money. The Yoon administration implemented a policy of giving a huge amount of money and apartments to married couples and newborns, and people began to marry and have children in response to the money.
Then they need to pay attention to the actual growth stats, it’s not.
Malthusian ideas are political, not scientific.
is that how science works? we find out what percentage of scientists think something to be true and … what? that percentage maps to the probability that the hypothesis is true? or is it more of a binary thing? if more than 50% then hypothesis is definitely true?
Once you state, “X number of scientists say/agree…” you have crossed the line from science into politics.
It’s fine. I heard the apocalypse is any day now on Fox News.
yes we need more war and viruses to kill off the excess population.
i keep thinking there’s something coming that is gonna greatly reduce the general population. history has shown that the earth has a way of cleansing itself.
How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, Malthus!?!?
I’m a scientist, and I’m not worried about this at all. So much other to worry about. Climate change will handle the overpopulation of old people just fine.
Over population in urban areas maybe. There are areas in the US that so desolate that won’t see civilization for days.
82% of scientists must be dumbasses.
Some ethnicities are literally going extinct, and others will certainly be eventually overpowered by the only 2 or 3 groups which have a cultural obligation to have as many children as possible with the specific goal of overtaking the world lol.
Even the mighty Chinese will go extinct within a few hundred years at the current rate lol.
Almost no one has a solution to the concept of infinite growth of economies despite limited resources is a very major problem. .The fact that 18% of scientists do not agree is very worrisome as to who they consider a scientist
This was a survey from 2014 who cares what they said what do they say now?
I can’t help but think the ‘82%’ is more about the scientists’ political views than the scientists’ actual views.
And with the “bright idea” republicans have been pushing expect things to get worse for the common man
Forced births on women and young female children is just sick with no exceptions / couple that with their even brighter idea to remove birth control at every level is insane .. they are proving that they are not worthy of being in power