over population ?

When we started out, there weren't many of us. Du to better food, health conditions, and endless interest in sex, there are 6 to 7 billion of us. Every family that has 3 kids will keep boosting it up.

Nothing to stop us. We are the # 1 predator.

How many people can earth have before it becomes a miserable place ? 20 billion ? 50 billion ? Originally Posted by VitaMan

Simple Fix: ;-)

Just drain the shallow end of the gene pool and over population is no more. Too bad for puddles.

Stop worrying it will be solved with war. We will be lucky not to get nuked early with the dumbass in the white house. But no matter what this will happen.

2/3 of the World's population live in 2 countries: China and India. Nothing we can do about them. China tried limiting birthrates and failed miserably.

Genius satire, but too goofus for serious planet-splat consideration. I think this thread is in "Fail Safe" and "The Day After" or maybe "The Omega Man" or "The Road" mode. Originally Posted by Fancyinheels

I agree with the lovely lady who posts in green. So, lets add this one, which is one of my all time favorite movies.

I agree with the lovely lady who posts in green. So, lets add this one, which is one of my all time favorite movies.

Originally Posted by DEAR_JOHN

Just watched my personal DVD of this awesome classic again recently. Hard to believe that the novel upon which the 1951 movie (an early entry into the 50s' Golden Era of Silver Screen Sci Fi) was based actually was written in 1933. It was a seminal work of world disaster and social breakdown, with echoes heard throughout the fantastical entertainment universe to this day. Always wondered why Hollywood never filmed a sequel based on the second book, "After Worlds Collide," as the continuing story of Earth's survivors on their new planet was fascinating.

Have read rumors of a remake, but nothing definite. Unless viewers were familiar with the origin, a flick now would probably be considered derivative.

It doesn't take a genius (well, actually a little algebra would help) to realize that growth in perpetuity (the essence of a global economy, represented in the long run by a line with a positive slope) is not sustainable for a planet with fixed resources (land, oil, etc.; represented by a flat line).

In theory, even if we found a second Earth, we would quickly overpopulate that planet because of how exponential growth works. A second earth would go from 0% to 100% capacity in whatever Earth's doubling time (70 divided by % growth) was at the point it reached 100% capacity.

I'm not going to pretend to know how this will play out, but I'm guessing it won't be a lot of fun. The good news is most of us will probably be old or dead by the time the global economy collapses since our institutions continue to prop it up and push the day of reckoning further down the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY

PS def don't watch this unless you enjoy crippling reality

It's called Carrying Capacity, it will resolve itself in time, won't be pretty.

It's also the best time to be alive, for now!