Is overpopulation really a problem for the planet?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Developing countries have long been blamed for destroying the environment with their large families. Overpopulation has been identified as the enemy. But how accurate is this claim exactly?
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To fix the overpopulation problem. They need fix the population's mentality first. They see children as nothing more than a heir on ones accomplishment than actual individuals. Resulting in quantity. It also doesn't help that sex education is very low and many have teenage pregnancy.
Yes, thats big problem. Unconscious parents having children that they dont see as individuals and treat like extensions of themselves. If people realize how much a child actually needs love, attention, and resources to grow up and be healthy individual, most people would not have children. But most people doesnt think about this. Then end up with few children and treat them poorly. And another generation do the same...
developing nations have the most children and have a high population leading to higher birth rates
Old comment, but perhaps automation and robots will help.
If look human beings were socially responsible and our societies were sustainable environmentally, that would be different.
Some religions are used to insinuate that reproduction has something to do with god.
As population increases, as do costs for services and infrastructure.
I do know that many older Hindu people I’ve known explained that they lived sustainably until a certain decade. Over consumption yes if you are talking at a structural level also.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.“ - Mahatma Gandhi
That's so true and wise thank you for the qoute
I don’t know when it was that he said that but the population was at a specific value. At that point the statement was true. Double or triple that value would the statement still be true? However you look at it there is a maximum number of people the planet can support. The more people there are the more limited each one’s life experience will be.
In an ideal world, but not this world.
@@lazybastard6004 I concur in regards to co2 levels.
Regional overpopulation is an entirely different subject. All of the data you just listed has little immediate effect on areas of the world that have intensely over- populated areas. Eating or not eating , not global warming, would be the main concern of hundreds of millions of people.
And if populations continue to increase in these areas at the same rate, in fact if populations don't come down in these areas, as they are already unsustainable, many millions will die of starvation. All politics aside. Lack of food will be your demise long before global warming.
Cultural change will be inevitable, if a balance can ever be realized. No hate. Just do the math.
Pretty glib and not helpful
"almost feeding 7 billion"
3 billion have 3 meals a day. 2 billion have at least 2. And the other two have 1 or 0 meals (depending on their luck).
And feeding isn't the only problem...
Yeah, intermit fast too.
Even earlier, people were suffering famines, more so.
The amount of food wasted by the first class can be used to feed those 2 billion
@@cantthinkofaname632 The "first class" makes 90% of all the food
@@cantthinkofaname632 Not really.
You can say that the "first class" (middle class for that matter) wastes a lot of food (I agree with that), but the real problem is that the "food factory" is built around certain areas and logistics (not to mention the money that companies and countries dont want to spend to feed other nations).
And like I said, the "feeding" isnt the only problem. The real problem is the harm that we are doing to the planet by feeding to many people.
And dont think for a second, that if the "lower class" had more purchasing power that they wouldn't consume the same as the other developed countries (by the way I dont really like this class stuff, its just a metaphor for "how many dollars do you have")
Overpopulation decreases human value, unemployment rises, pollution increases, and most of the youth are forced to work for a low salary with high living costs because one person rejects a job with a low salary or toxic environment 100 people will be willing to take that job as there is no option, quality of life & quality of education is decreasing, stress & competition increasing. Many people aren't happy with their personal or professional life, especially in developing countries like India, etc. Everybody is selfish to marry & have 2 children because when we look around everyone is following the same cycle if we don't follow the same routine we will be weirdos to our family and friends.
No we will not. Let's not be selfish and not impose a low-quality life on another person. I will happily accept being called a weirdo rather than bringing another life to live the same pointless life.
@@abhisheksing8379 your not the only one that thinks this even at work alot of men are having vasectomy. Most people that breed are the uneducated
Abhis, reread Dr. Curiouss. He's agreeing with you, trying to enumerate a point, to explain the breeders' mentality.
100% true
... and then, we all went crazy ....
Overpopulation : when you ask for better paycheck and the boss says no because there are 20 unemployed people behind you willing to work more than you,worse condition and for less money just because there's no other choice
You have a valid point, but I read an article once that indicated that, change is inevitable; either we adapt or die.
good point but let's not forget the suits are greedy scum and they are looking for ways to cut payroll and get more work out of their slaves.
That's automation. Over population would be not enough resources for the people.
Overpopulation is a result of capitalism then.
This comment is more proof we are overpopulated. If there are 100 people standing for one job and there are millions of people, unemployed and everywhere you go for a good paying job, nothing is hiring and when you go to a standard job like a grocery store, you have to compete with other people just to get your foot in the door, I remember in the city of Boston alone I handed in my résumé to be a bartender in 30 different bars in the city and I had experience in Miami Beach went to bartending school and did a catering for weddings and I got rejected everywhere and the market is way over saturated with bartenders. Everywhere you go you will see 10 people handing in their resumes including me then they are interviewing seven people And it’s like a lottery winner on who gets the job even if you are experienced and well qualified you will still have a hard time getting your foot in the door and when you do get your foot in the door, they will train you piss, poor and let you go within a week and replace you the next day and that’s because there are so many bartenders not only is the market oversaturated, but it’s overpopulated
Just because we can feed 7 billion people doesn’t mean we necessarily should, we aren’t doing it in a sustainable way, almost scientists say we have only roughly 60 years of arable land (due to mono crop planting culture and topsoil degradation) not to mention greenhouse gas effects warming the planet leading to droughts/food shortages which much of the world is already experiencing…
The mother do 7 children and then she cried "I can't nourish them all"
That's stupidity at its finest.
I feel like this video is more about deflecting blame, than actually answering the question. First off, the question is not as much if it is a problem for the planet, but more if it is problem for its inhabitants. The planet will survive us, unless we blow it to pieces, but we majorly affect how pleasant it is to be here and the amount of scarce resources we have at our availability. Of course it is a problem. Earth can't sustain an unlimited number of people, and I don't think it will be a good time to be alive, if we ever exceed the "final" capacity. The problem is the same, as it would be with overconsumption, where the poor will starve to death - on a scale much worse than today - while the rich hide behind walls.
We already pollute too much, and 10b+ people will pollute more than 7b. It is not about blaming India or other places, where population is growing, every person on earth bears their own responsibility. Saying that overconsumption is the problem, is just turning the problem on its head. Both are big problems. The wealthy classes in India, probably pollute a lot more than the poor, but we can't keep people in poverty for that reason. Everybody wants a high standard of living - and yes the birthrate will probably slow down if that is achieved - but that might not happen until we reach 10-12b, if it ever does.
Add to that, we are not the only species on this planet, drinking water is becoming more scarce by the year and the amount of land we all have to live on, is shrinking by the day.
Thats IT
i too think this video is more about pointing fingers than anything else.
everone already know the percapita polution of europe or america is way more than the rest. but we are never going to get anywhere pointing finger. and as the biggest nations have the most to contribute i think its unwise to sour any efforts. europe and the us have the means while the rest need to too. this is absoutly the wrong time to fan the flames of tribalism and play the blame game.
i do admit, india in particular has a bad rep for population. but the argument, your 1 million take up as much space as our 1 billion, there for we are fine and even, is no excuse if in the end the absolute need to be reduced. and in india too. they might all be dirt poor now, but if you at all value human life and strive to better their situation, that argumet is utterly muted.
@Splint Meow huh. biodiv went down which affects.. what were trying to say. one is implied , actualy a absolute must of the first.
i pumped my tire and it affected the tires air pressure.....
huh what?
@Splint Meow Biodiversity includes plant and animals. reduce the the one, and ofcourse it affects plant and animal. the sentance , the say you put it, kind of nonsence.
that you have described might better be said as
"the drop in biodiversity has negative ramifications for the remaining fauna and fora. everything is connected and dissapearance of insect B could lead to Palnt C going into decline. only time ill tell thr full ramifications of human activity."
but as is, its like saying you pump air in a tire and the pressure increases. i lift up this brick, and the brick goes up.. its kinda of cyclic. make the herd smaller and you have less cows. technically true, but huh.
thats all, the sentence make in it current form no sence
yeah, it's like, it's not us Indians, leave us alone :D.
We need to stop comparing overpopulation to overconsumption. I come from India and my country is definitely over populated and taking no action to fix it. There are not enough resources in India to serve its population well. 50 years down the line India will be one of the country with highest carbon emissions.
Thanks for stating the truth. We must all be careful about believing videos, news programs, newspapers, magazines, etc. Countries, governments, businesses, militaries, religions, and media lie, exaggerate, and deceive the public to make themselves look good and advance their agendas.
@毅苏冯 You are wrong, our planet can sustain this much life.
By using basic economic principles, if earths population goes up, and food production stagnates, then food prices will rise due to increased demand. People will notice this, and start giving birth to less babies because they cannot afford them. Eventually, we will hit a stable population.
We never be the top emitter by Emissions per head.
If all 1.4 billion INdians stay at home and dont drive, heat, cool, consume, fly no one has a problem with it.
So usa and india both consume so much? The number is different tho. Usa citizen consume multiple in a day compared to other citizen around world, thats facts.
Can't find a goddamn parking spot
Population density in my city is 11,000/sq km... it’s been years since I have seen sunset because concrete blocks it
@@-.00__I__o8o__I__00. true... along with food shelter etc every human needs space too...
@@-.00__I__o8o__I__00. with that much people in neighborhood even nature cant play with nature ...
Where do you live?
@@joyanimation5579 Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰
@@WaqarAli-vn1zy pls think of the right of forests, rivers, plants and planet earth to live and don't have more than one child.
Coronavirus has entered the chat .
Coronavirus has killed 1.5 million people to date, there's an estimated 385,000 babies born a day. Excluding the value of individual life, purely numbers, it would take 4 days to get that amount of people back.
Even coronavirus can’t stop the overgrowth of the population. Birth rate is higher than mortality rate.
@Clayton Shearer lol stop watching rubbish on youtube ...
covid-19 was dangerous because it could trigger immune system to go berserk damaging ur bodies that need to fight for another infection later on
I wouldn’t be surprised if Coronavirus causes another baby boom because everyone’s stuck at home banging like crazy.
@Shivansh oh they know it isn’t enough wait until they put the kill off strain in the world, and wipe 75% of the population like the Bible said.
Like the guy in the Family Guy said,
*"TOO MANY PEOPLE,STOP WITH THE PEOPLE!!*
This message brought to you by the Indian Census Bureau.
We need a reeaaally big war
Start with yourself.
If its that bad, why are governments rewarding parents on every child birth?
@@stephenwilson4931 cause they make more money out of it....
Population goes down then the quality of living goes up. You still have the same amount of resources, but you give it to less people.
Check out the series "The Last Man on Earth" .
So Thanos was right the whole time!
@@DannyHuanDao thanos and ultron were always right
except by looking at thanos's power he could do better than snapping half of population, he could have went on the unlimited resources path, sparing him the gamble of demographics, except if the snap is discriminatory
Bingo.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with this video... Our farming methods are unatural and that is how we are both supporting more people than we should add well as wrecking the ecosystem.
Its probably easier to improve our farms rather than stopping population growth.
@@5astelija75 are you a farmer?
@@HexaDecimus Obviously with his statement, he is not. But as we know, it's becoming increasingly desperate in many regions.
@@HexaDecimus Considering hydroponics and vertical farming are about to really take off this isn't exactly true. If we reduced food waste then much of these problems would be eliminated without these technologies, though of course that's far easier said than done. However with the move towards less poluting energy sources, and increasingly strict farming regulations, we should have no problem feeding people provided people stop hoarding wealth.
@@ZeldaKid5000 "hoarding wealth" is a double negative and an oxymoron
feeling so blessed that I live in countryside where I can see hill, mountain, clear water sunset and sunrise everyday. can' t imagine if my village got overpopulation and this beautiful view gone suddenly..... good thing peope here mostly have 2 children max.
Problem is everybody wants what you have and then it's gone... I live in what used to be a small town near a lake and now its overdeveloped crowded crap. People that lived in the country now back onto packed subdivisions 😵... Everyone has 2 or 3 cars and most cars hit the highways at the same time - it's a mess. Wildlife is in deep shit....
Nature is beautiful and we need it but unfortunately, some humans love destroying it which is sad and bad for everyone's health. We also have a city lights pollution problem for many nocturnal species.
Then those two children grow up and each one has two more children and so on.
CO2 at 0.04% is a 2,500th of the atmosphere. That means to warm the climate by just 1"C carbon dioxide molecules must capture 2500"C of heat energy. That is bonkers. It also breaks all the laws of thermodynamics.
Methane at 0.00017% is a 600,000th of the atmosphere so it's even more bonkers.
However, the climate is changing. This is because of deliberate geoengineering programmes, in particular ozone thinning away from the poles. Though largely unreported ozone thinning effect is directly observable, this summer you can see a unnaturally bright sun just as we did last year. Under these conditions the pain felt when looking at the sun is not only from the increase in visible light but the much larger increase in infrared. (Look up at the sky and you will see a range of geoengineering operations in progress, these include chemtrail induced cloud or hazing, ripple patterns caused by HAARP installations, bizarre and unnatural cloud formations).
Climate change is a programme to force change in accordance with the implementation of Agenda 21 /2030. Current events demonstrate this transition is well underway and will involve massive population cull through injected nanotech (re transhumanist programme). Agenda 21 also sees the permanent loss of all property rights with the introduction of universal basic income (ref NESARA/GESARA) and has/is being promoted by The World Economic Forum.
'You will own nothing and you will be happy' WEF
In a depopulated world the surviving brainwashed and controlled population will be confined to mega cities. Carbon limits will be used to restrict consumption and liberty. Meanwhile the re-greened wilderness will be the exclusive playground of the ultra rich elite posing as conservationists.
The CO2 hoax amounts to the theft of the world and the enslavement of humanity by a parasitic few.
Welcome to the future!
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I have included a debunking of 'accumulated heat' as it is so often used to explain how trace elements, so called 'greenhouse gasses', can warm the planet.
Accumulated heat whilst sounding a reasonable explanation of how heat can build up is rather nothing more than gobbledygook. In fact it shows those using such arguments do not even understand what heat is.
When we measure temperature we are measuring the heat energy a thing is losing. In short heat is a measurement of flow, the transfer of heat energy and this will always be in the direction towards the colder. For this reason a thing can never 'accumulate heat' in the way those advocating CO2 climate change describe. The temperature of a body is the measure of heat output, it can never be greater than the measure of heat input. Output = input. When a thing is warmed it is heated to an equivalent of the heat input. If this input is not maintained it will cool. Those that propose that heat can build up to be hotter than the total measure of heat input at a given time either do not understand what heat is or are being deliberately misleading. To illustrate, an object being heated by a flame can never become hotter than that flame, it's temperature cannot rise inexorably to the temperature of the sun for instance. Heat cannot be accumulated. When we think about it common sense tells us this must be the case.
NASA and even Nobel Prize winning physicists have expounded 'accumulated heat' as the explanation how CO2 is able to warm the atmosphere. They claim that over hundreds of years CO2 has captured heat energy and this heat has 'accumulated' to produce a serious warming effect. As I have just explained, this is totally impossible and fundamentally violates all the laws of thermodynamics. That respected scientists should support such uneducated, unthinking nonsense is disturbing and only reflects that in terms of being able to think clearly about a subject they have no facility or inclination. These are the Dark Ages of science. Belief has outweighed logic or any critical thought. It tells us that we should not unquestioningly accept anything we are told, that experts can be fools.
(NB: be aware of attempts to discard thermodynamics by talking about biology.
Eg. 'It only takes a drop of arsenic to kill a person.'
This would be somewhat desperate, muddled thinking. Clearly biological processes based on the reaction of a cell are not the same as the laws of physics/thermodynamics).
@@doobidoo095 You are a kook!
Overpopulation will solve itself like a game of musical chairs.
And when the music stops, Humans will complain, bitterly, "It's not fair!"
True
The west always want to be the leader, why not start first.
Lol
Fine by me, I didnt cause it and im still pretty quick to fnd a seat.
It's quality of life vs population. We can't have both.
We need to fix overconsumption and overpopulation.
If we all don't consume anything we can fit even more people on the planet! Lets do that.
@@distrologic2925 why we need more people?
How
@@redgenaldjob9113 education, loop economy, better quality products.
Automation, unemployment and inflation will fix that.
How much CO2 is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence? People would not have a big an ecological footprint if consumer crap did not fall apart and have to be replaced.
If economists do not compute and report the annual depreciation of consumer junk then how can we even evaluate the issue?
What is NDP?
Correct
We should make being childfree more acceptable in society. Stop pressuring women into being mothers. Also in my country stop making the childfree pay for kids that are not theirs.
Women should definitely not be pressured into being mothers! If the childfree pay for children that are not theirs via taxes e.g. it's because those children will pay their future pension and people who have children have much higher costs. So, some children will have to be raised...
I think the pressure is already on for women to become mothers in light of the whole coronavirus situation. The global death toll has now reached 2 million and people don't want to "socially distance" themselves from each other anymore.
You’d be surprised about how much women want to have children. It’s simply in there DNA of course there will be outliers but on average if you don’t have a kid by the age of 30 a female will start to produce even more chemicals and hormones to make you want to be pregnant and to have children. However this doesn’t mean that as a female you should be forced to have children. It’s a human right to choose wether to have children or not. Both for men and women.
Yes! Brilliant ! Thank you.
@@loudboy317 we have too many people
The worst thing about this question is that it has two answers and they both always start with 'obviously'
There is need for a man like thanos who can execute people without mercy.
@@ashwanikumar-gv6ir first you
How about stop having kids, that makes sure it doesn't get worse than it already is
@@AwfulnewsFM yes, we should ban having kids for next 20 years.
@@ashwanikumar-gv6ir imagine
It sounds more like an Indian expiation of guilt than a mini doc.
DW is fu*king biased ...
Ignore it ...
or a fact which was not know?
I totally agree! This vid was terrible!!
😂 says a person choking rivers with tones of waste generated in their backyard, did you have your instant packaged food today?
@@Kathakathan11 as it should be
The biggest problems is that this question keeps getting asked over and over again YES IT IS A Problem.
No kids here, already snipped. I did my part. We’re still screwed.
Cringe
@@Wilhelmofdeseret Yup, you.
I did not bring any children to this world, i already have 50. My Job is done thank you everybody.
Lol, instead of having a kid of your own some guy in India just had 12. Your contribution is null and publicly promoting a personal life style choice does nothing as well.
@@Nope_handlesaretrash bruh
Every country should start to plan for an economy that can be self-sustained so that we can afford to start diminishing the population. Unfortunately, our model seems to be focused on growth which is very short-sighted.
You're taking about a developed nations with no problem of population or economic growth. Most so called overpopulation targeted by the UN and rich nations are the third world nations, to where they do not have a system of government like the developed nations has or have.
@@gearzone2611 No. the "developed nations" could not live without cheap imports from "poor countries" for long
@@fellinuxvi3541 us is a 3rd world country with first world military
@@masterpalladin I guess
We need many population in order to defeat them
No one will complain of 7billion slaves and customers, until the slaves realised they are slaves.
I am from India and I advocate that India need to have two child policy for controlling over population in India.
Well then people will come out and w8ll say it's against minorities.
@@ChiefJoey5971 exactly
A child limit can work if it's not insanely enforced like it was in China, which had two ramifications: If a pregnancy happened in excess to the over limit child they'd basically blacklist that person from society which is jacked up and also the mass abortion of girls has lead to an insane gender skew there (probably why they're so eager to go to war and offload a lot of those men). The way to do it is incentivization: Offer tax breaks and benefits for those who stay under the limits.
I advocate a minimum two child policy to keep the population stable or grow.
Even 2 child policy could have growth as you need 2 deaths to each birth
Overpopulation is the real reason why our planet and our stability is threatened, but it isn't discussed because it means more taxpayers, more consumers, more profits
Sorry, but overlooking population growth like that seems pretty stupid to me.
Adding even more people (which happens mostly in least developed countries) is not going to help anybody. On the contrary, living conditions are going to get even worse for exactly those populations that continue to encounter rapid growth. This would not help anyone.
A long term goal must be bringing down human population to a number which our planet is able to support easily, while all of them living in decent conditions.
And this number is definetely below 5 Billion.
Are the other 2 billion people supposed to just disappear?? 💀
@@lbarlow42 No definitely not.
I just think that all possible measures that stop BIG population growth should be taken. (contraception, education etc...)
By 2050 our planet could be dead due to global plastic and carbon waste. Sterilise humanity and save the rest of the life on this planet.
@@connorsimmonds9698 lol i bet some time people are gonna start suggesting mass killings (Thanos style)
@Kinky Winky I was hardly suggesting using force to achieve these goals.
Better education, health,and access to contraception (which all can be supplied from the "first world") automatically decreases the number of children people are going to have.
Not helping in this manner would seem rather reckless to me, and devastating for the "third world" in the long run.
Also, I want to know how many people can earth’s resources sustain when aiming for a modern western comfort level: 1 car, 1fridge, 1smattphone, heating in winter, 1xomputer, oven+electric pit+ 1x holiday per year by flight, bus and train daily use + mediterenian diet. Because let’s be honest... that’s what most less developed countries are aiming to reach. And no one who has it will willingly give it up. I want to know how many people vs resources if everyone gets to live comfortably.
Good question. 👍
No one has ever answered the question
Below a billion for sure
@@suryanshusingh8863 so how are the rest 6 billion people living on the earth now?
@@gigillik Modern Western comfort level not sustainable level.
If we consider sustainable level then earth can hold more than 10 billion people
8 billion people and counting this is crazy with depleting resources
It's time we valued quality over quantity. Quality of each human life, over the quantity of our possessions, and also over the number of humans alive. In other words - both population growth and consumption habits are to blame. Both need fixing in order to arrive at a sustainable and yet comfortable existence for us all.
I agree.
Everyone needs, no everyone _deserves_ things like good ( meaning durable )clothes. Everyone deserves a warm house/flat with, let's say, 50m2 per individual, clean water, electricity, the ability to access medicine and even things like internet access etc. - even the ability to travel. And not only that - everyone deserves to try to improve society. We should not limit ourselves to an imaginary ideal just because that's the contemporary way we can have the most people on the planet without collapsing into wars etc.
🙏🏿
Based on everything we know about human history, coming into existence is always a serious harm. I wouldn't have a child because of the harm of bringing new life into existence.
There’s 8 billion people now. And we’re in the middle of a 6th mass extinction cause of biodiversity loss due to humans and all the pollutions we cause. How the UN still hasn’t addressed overpopulation as an environmental emergency is infuriating. They celebrated 8 billion people instead of sounding the alarm.
"Titan was like most planets, too many mouths and nowhere left to go around. When we faced Extinction, I offered a solution: Genocide. At random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman, what I predicted came to pass. With all six stones I could simply snap my fingers and they would all ceased to exist I call that : Mercy. I finally rest and watch the sunrise on this grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills"
-Thanos
@Mr Mistah repeat
Satanist mindset be like
He's wrong though. Resources are not a zero sum game. Increased population leads to more heads to innovate. Innovation leads to greater efficiency and productivity in finding and extracting resources. And besides, population growth do not increase forever. It tapers out as a country develops. A lot of developed countries have birth rates just above replenishment. Some countries like Japan actually have negative birth rate.
@AutoFuturo Thank you 👍.
That's because people want to keep the confort they are used to, and are lazy.
Because reducing population is the laziest way to deal with it.
@Mr X I love Voltaire's quotes especially "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". And he was absolutely right about it when it comes conspiracy theories and autocrats
I normally agree with DW news and documentaries, with big exception on this one. Do we, humans, really need to occupy the whole planet to become overpopulated? Hell yeah, forgetting about other species who are also living in our planet/ecosystem.
@Pedro Ortega your right 😀
@@AnkushKumar-cu1tu What about his right? Right to do what?
1960: 5.0 children per woman
1980: 3.7 children per woman
2000: 2.7 children per woman
2020: 2.4 children per woman
This is the global average. Most population growth today is due to increase of life expectancy.
This is definitily underestimated.
1960 : 5.5
1980 : 5
2000 : 4
2020 : 3
@@bumarangnebula2589 What's your data source? Mine is worldbank.
When the fertility rate was 5.0, the amount of people added per year was ~60 million.
Now, with a lower, 2.4 fertility rate, we add ~80 million per year. Lower fertility rate, but MORE people. The birth rate needs to be LOWER still.
And your point, Mr.Geode? Stopping a long freight train takes more than half a mile. 8.125 billion is a nightmare.
The system to feed 7+ billion is like a fine tuned house of cards where even relatively small disturbances (Ukraine/Russia war, bad weather in central america) cause havoc on such level that tens of millions start to migrate to different areas. There is absolutely no argument to be made for having over 2.2 children in developed regions or over 4 children in developing ones (higher child mortality).
Much of the emissions and pollution in developing countries is due to manufacturing goods for developed countries.
It does not matter, many developing countries are growing at a rate that is absolutely unsustainable in the long run. Indonesia is litterally sinking into the sea yet they've got a larger population than France and Germany combined.
Sorry, make that France, Germany and England combined.
@Spell Check 1.1 percent, which is a number that is likely underreporting the actual growth, is a significant number for a country that is already overpopulated. Also, I feel that you misunderstand the point that I am trying to make. It is entirely reasonable to levy criticism at the western world for the lavish lifestyles and irresponsible production practices that has placed us in our current predicament but that does not subtract from the very real and unsustainable population expansion that is taking place in developing countries. We can take just about any measures available to us to halt the oncoming climate crisis but if Africa is the most populous continent in 2050 we're still doomed. Only by working at the problem from every angle will we be able of reaching an beneficial result for the planet and this includes halting the uncontrolled population increase in Asia and Africa.
@Spell Check They are sinking because they are drawing too much water from the bedrock. As the water is removed and not replaced, the land sinks. That's true specially for Jacarta.
Also the labour laws (or lack of them) are completely in competence of Indonesian government. I would absolutely love if all the outsourced manufacturing would return back to US, Europe...
99% of all earth's species have gone extinct - wonder when it's our turn.
May the Great Filter decide upon our fate
Well if you think humans is the problem, you can suicide any day you want.
But they didn't have technology. If the dinosaurs had a space program, they would've been able to deflect the asteroid that killed them
@@jackprescott9652 I don't think it, I know it... if you think suicide is the answer then after you...
@@walleyperch you´re the one blaming humans not me. You do it.
Just realized I've been on birth control for 17 years. No pregnancies. High-five! 👋
How old are ya?
Why is being on birth control making her a “polluted women.” If she doesn’t want children that’s her choice
@Weasel Can't Swim Are you a drunken fool?
@kabir singh then breed so much that you end up pushing covid dead bodies on a handcart.
My wife decided to have zero children before we married. We couldn't be happier.
And why do people overconsume? Because Capitalism requires continuous overconsumption in order to sustain itself. There are a lot of very rich and powerful people who have a vested interest in manipulating people into buying more and more.
So the takeaway from this video is, don't worry about overpopulation, just consume less??? Is this trying to be serious? The mindset is "have 12 billion people but just enjoy a life of little to no consumption" lol why not instead strive to have 1 to 2 billion, where those that are alive don't have to worry so much about overconsumption and can actually enjoy life?
1 to 2 billion? That happens if someone bombard those countries that highest in population and highest birth rates in this world.
This video is full of nice straw men arguments. Yes we do need to change our consumption habits but it’s undeniable that more people practicing with companies that don’t care being an issue is going to make it worse. Overpopulation isn’t the main issue but it definitely exasperates all the other issues because it does things like increasing consumption in already mismanaged areas
TLDR: people can be pretty dumb and unwilling to change, until things change more people being dumb is an issue, Overpopulation should be treated on a national basis not a fucking scape goat global thing
Dancing 💃💃💃💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Consumption and a rising population still go hand in hand. Any way you slice it the Population will still have an effect on everything.
Subnegro, cogent point. You are too hip for this room. Thank you.
Countries like India will improve their citizens life condition as its economy improve overtime meaning sooner or later a huge amount of people is going to behave the same way US citizens do. I think that's pretty much unavoidable.
Yeah hopefully, current generation in India is heavily influenced by western culture due to free internet and tiktok.
@@homie7218 maybe that's why india banned tiktok lol
Up to certain level. As the life conditions in India improve, the country will consume more. But the amount of resources is not unlimited, so it will lead to rise in price leading to less consumption in other countries and also to development of alternative / saving technologies. The price and consumption will reach some equilibrium across the globe
@@medicamedico4335 they did good by banning it.
True
over population is not the problem. Government corruption is the problem.
Mother Earth has its own solution.
Release the Delta, then Lambda, Sigma, Omega...
Mother China more likely.
Sorry you were not able to convince me 🤦🏻♂️ let’s be honest the world is overpopulated 🤷🏻♂️
Even if it's not overpopulated, low population is better.
It will lead to better employment opportunities and good salaries.
It really isnt, there are parts of the world that are over populated but the world itself isnt over populated
@@shrin210 absolutely agree with that 👍🏼
Lets be honest....it is overpopulated...nobody wants to live in Kansas.
If we have less human we would need less of everything and have more of everything
Not for us but for all things too(im not saying we should take everything though)
i'm a bit scared about people in arid regions, like middle east, where population is growing fast, but water supply stays the same. and in future, due to climate change and exhaustion of underground water wells, water shortages there might become even more severe. i'm afraid that 2016 refugee crisis in mediterranean will look like a humble beginning of something truly terrifying
That's why countries like SA and UAE are buying lands with water resources in African countries and in places they can't buy directly (like California which is ironic because they are in very need of water), they are financing companies that will export water intensive crops to them. China is also water unsafe and they caught on that and doing the same. India will be water unsafe too and they are starting to caught on, but it will be war over Tibet.
However, don't think they are the only "villains". They are doing what they can to safeguard their own national interests at expenses of others like every other power. Billionaires and corporations are buying water rich lands quietly as well.
@@ddwkc True, but what happens when for example, people that don't have the resources to buy water and neither do their countries (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria...)
Will they migrate? Millions of completely different people moving to places with more water, Europe. And even the EU countries are quite literally 'feeling the heat'
@@nexus5242 The smart people will move to where there is water available. The others will die.
@@seth_5394 There wont be enough water for all...
Certain parts of the world needs some family planning à la Chinoise
I don’t agree with this point of view! It is true that western countries are using way more resources compare to developing countries per capita basis! But eventually they will catch up with west and their habitats will change! They will want more meat, more air travels, more cars, etc! Over population is a real problem!
Right. It is not us/them. It is simply too many people. 8.125 billion on a planet so small the towers of suspension bridges out of parallel to reflect the earth's curvature is outrageous. But the children making the above video and half the posters here gathered are unable to grasp this. Thank you, Pharzad.
I just know the Earth is dying at this rate. We need to stop the population or slow its increase until we figure out how to manage it properly.
this video isn't really taking the problem of overpopulation seriously and instead just blaming the developed countries for having more carbon footprints. People should realize that food grows from having arable lands and and eventually we will soon run out of arable lands at the rate we are growing right now. Forest and natural vegetation are already being wiped out at an astonishing rate for growing our food, it wouldn't take that long for it to be completely wiped out.
yep and we already eat so much ultra processed gmo food that’s how we can produce food at such a fast rate and that will reach a plateau eventually too
You get it, Bots102. Unfortunately, the children producing the above empty video do not. Thank you.
Soon as I heard it being narrated by an Indian, I knew it was going to be extremely defensive position attempting to justify the EXTREMELY UNWARRANTED population growth of India. She does make a valid argument that wealthier Nations have a high consumption per capita. But what we are going to see with India is the exact same thing we've seen with China, first comes the population explosion then comes the wealth generation, and once you establish a large enough middle class, you see an explosion in consumption and carbon footprints. Literally the only reason that Indians don't consume as much is because they simply can't afford to, the second they have enough disposable wealth as we have seen in China, they will become the world's largest burden on the planet.
Unwarranted population growth? Can you pull up the numbers please. And you will find that India's and China's population growth rate has been on par with Europe's throughout human history.
It's just that India and China had enough land and resources to hold onto such a population whereas in other parts of the world they would simply die.
@@upendradwivedi124 Exactly, you're proving my point, you literally just said a single country's population growth was equal to that of an ENTIRE CONTINENT, so without even realizing it, no matter which way you try to manipulate the figures, China and India's populations are absolutely unnecessary and quite frankly disgusting. That's like saying, oh the US doesn't even make that much money, EUROPE ( 44 countries) has a similar GDP
@@hiei5040 exactly!!!
Get a life moron
@@hiei5040 I agree with you sir and I am from India there are many activists and normal Indian citizens, who are very concerned about our situation of of overpopulation. Many Indian states are regulating 2 child policies but our left ecosystem and woke journalists won't let us to do something productive in reducing population through family planning.
Although in my state( west Bengal) has the lowest fertility rate of 1.6 almost comparable with Norway and are population has became stagnant and is not increasing further. I myself have decided never to marry or to pro- create. Thank you.
I support 2 child policy tossed by the central government of India but I know our left ecosystem will never let us to regulate this laws.
@@hiei5040 But the whole continent of Europe's landmass is pretty small compared to the landmass of India and China
Maybe not a problem for the planet but for big cities definitely. It already is too difficult to find an apartment, to find parking, to get in public transportation etc. Its too crowded and insufferable.
The problem with your equation is that while it is true that a US or European consumer uses 16 times more resources in the end all people want to consume and improve their live. This means that while currently 1.5 billion European and Americans are high consumer, the rest of the world wants to follow. Yep, its not fair that 1.5 to maybe 2 billion people are the high consumers, if the remaining population of the planet follows step, we would be screwed. With about 2 billion people using most of the resources, how do you think the planet would fair if over 7 billion people wanted to use resources similar to the richer more advanced countries. The simple fact is, all humans want to live well, consume well. Thank god most of the planets people currently cant do that as they are to poor. but just as we saw with China, countries will eventually catch up and start consuming closer and equal to the richer countries. And that is when the population of the planet will be to much.
It seems unfair but this is the harsh truth. Just imagining what the energy consumption will be when there's lets say 2 billion more people living "western lifestyle". There's no way you can produce the needed energy with solar or wind. Im not surprised that big figures like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have been giving money for scientific research in the nuclear energy space. Many scientists are trying to advocate politicians to direct funding towards nuclear energy adoption.
What do you mean live well, consume well ?. Idk, maybe majority ????, but remember living well and consuming well does not mean the same thing to everyone. So yes majority but not all as you said. Maybe you did not mean to say that, I know I frequently say all, but mean most or majority....
A funny joke I heard recently was...a wealthy western will pay alot of money to live like a third world person : ))))
@AutoFuturo Yes, Western countries do consume. But history has shown that pretty much any country that reaches a certain wealth, may it be western, asian or other starts consuming like crazy. It is human nature to enjoy live without thinking about the consequences.
@@Byrzzaa yeah the western lifestyle is much more the problem than anything else. It needs to change radically
Without watching YES! It's a problem.
@Splint Meow Yes, it is not only nonsensial but also very dangerous!
Overpopulation is the elephant in the room! It's the root cause of all environmental problems. To lower consumption is of course good thing but it won't solve everything . Compare the standards of living in low populated countries like Norway, Ireland or Canada with overpopulated like Bangladesh or Nigeria ! Creators of this video must have been on drugs. 👎👎👎
@Splint Meow There are 3 natural ways of reducing a population. Human or animal as well. One of the three inevitably comes when the population reaches or exceeds the capacity of the environment. They are described as FAMINE, PLAGUE AND WAR. = starvation, diseases and intraspecific competition in ecological terms.
People are the only mammals (as far as I know) who are able to plan and reduce their birth rate = use contraception, family planning etc. That is the fourth option we have, and the only one that allows us to avoid the previous three (which are of course undesired in modern society). People are also able to increase the capacity (modern agriculture) or decrease the risk of the 3 factors (agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement) but only up to a certain level. The main principle remains unchanged.
This video basically doesn't acknowledge that the world has a limited capacity. Instead it adds CO2 and refrigerants into the mix completely out of context 🙈.
One needs both less people and less consumption. There are people on this planet that do not consume enough and others that consume too much. As the video highlighted, there are many ever changing variables. Also, still don't think that one can offer potable water and food for everyone if we keep growing globally.
In the end of the video overpopulation is the root cause for everything and of cause economy in balance in this world.
i so agree
absolutly
GDP growth and population growth are both unsustainable in the near future.
Every nation with declining birthrate enjoys higher per capita GDP. There are better, more enduring, saner business models than encouraging evermore babies to become consumers and serve as cheap labor.
Control population and stop consumerism and materialism
This is the only way to deal with this. Somehow every other thing on the planet is regulated to hell but children isn't one of them? I mean how insane is that?
As much as I don't agree with the CCP policies...the one child policy was a good move, the problem was that the Chinese culture prioritised males over females when having children. If they had let nature do it's thing, they probably wouldn't be in this situation of a unbalanced in Female/Male ratio.
I have to agree, people keep talking about resources, but ignore the most important one: land.
Yes, we CAN live eating almost nothing, in a very small apartment with 3 other people (each with a very small bed)... but should we?
We don't want animals or dogs to live without plenty of space to walk and live free... why would we want that for ourselves?
We shouldn't have more people living with less, we should have less people so people can live with more.
Ok. Let's assume we all became vegan, cyclists and minimalists. Let's assume we all reduce our consumption and our carbon footprint... The moral and ethical dilemma still remains: why should I bring another sentient being to compete, suffer, provoque suffering to others and finally die?
Antinatalism sqaud
@@Mahi-nw5vh Natalism mob
So your solution is extreme rationing so that we can get to the absolute maximum carrying capacity? I don't understand your point. First you say population matters, and then you say it doesn't matter. It seems like you're trying to make a point, but you just get lost for some reason. I don't understand.
This video makes no sense whatsoever, it's the worst one DW ever produced!!!
Overpopulation is the elephant in the room! It's the root cause of all environmental problems. To lower consumption is of course good thing but it won't solve everything . But generally speaking low population = prosperity and good quality of life;
high population usually means poverty
Compare the standards of living in low populated countries like Norway, Ireland or Canada with overpopulated countries like Bangladesh or Nigeria ! (Yes of course you find exemptions like Singapore or Mongolia)
Creators of this video must have been on drugs. 👎👎👎
Thank you, Jiris. But this silly video produced by ill-informed patty cakers has attracted dear few with your order of logic. It is indeed a silly DW. Just some kids still living at home wanting to show mom and dad what they got for their student debt in filmmaking, which they will in turn stick us with. Meanwhile, those wanting to get married and play house, a d o p t, stop breeding Let the earth recuperate. We didn't reach one billion until 1804, when Beethoven debuted his personal favorite of his symphonies, the Eroica.
Carrying Population or Overpopulation cannot be calculated because we consider the square footage for urban areas, wildlife areas, and farmland areas as variables. We think that wildlife area is expendable...when actually is not. We can sustain over 4 billion people because we are willing to sacrifice wildlife land and turn it into farmland and also by turning depleted farmland into urban land. Population over 4 billion is a problem. Period.
how we gonna get rid of the other 4 billion?
@@RabiaSammywhy everybody goes genocidal every time that we talk about our population being the problem. No it's not about getting rid of the excess of people we have right now. It is about recognizing that we cannot longer grow at the same pace and the thinking that waiting until 10 billion for plateau and decrease it's a stupid idea. Population decrease must start now. Stop having two or more children. But of course the problem is not the educated people that are forming consciously a family. The problem are the impoverished areas where having kids is the only option a woman has to have shelter and eating.
Dude... This whole thing is wrong!!
Just look outside there are way more people than just 10 years ago, anywhere.
TOO MANY PEOPLE
ideally, the population of the earth should be 2 billion, this leaves plenty of resources for everyone, we need to have governments around the world draft laws to prevent un-authorised births and fund space exploration to produce self-sustaining colonies on other planets
>we need to have governments around the world draft laws to prevent un-authorised births
Prepare for much REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE from the religious crowds.
Two billion is what it reached in 1927, when the most beautiful spire to this day on Manhattan's skyline was still on the drawingboard, the Chrysler Building, and Lindbergh flew a crude single-engined tail dragger across the Atlantic to Paris. For all his faults, Bill Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives serious money for education and contraceptives for women and girls around the world, as does the Clinton Foundation) believes two billion an optimum number. Ted Turner, who coolly gave one billion dollars to the United Nations, believes that figure an ideal global population, what it finally reached in 1804 when Beethoven debuted his personal favorite of his symphonies, the Eroica.
I live in the UK & we currently have 68 million people in the UK (as of 2021) We are a very small country & over populated, and eventually we are going to run out of places to build new homes & land, if we don't have the land to build new homes, where are these people supposed to live? Same goes for the rest of the world, every country is eventually going to run out of land to build new homes & places to Bury the dead.
Truer words never uttered, Mr. Jamiez. Thank you, sir.
Making products that are not repairable is a problem created by the companies and subtle shaming of using a product for as long as possible also happens in the society.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is something the companies and it's manufacturers should do first before blaming it on the customers who have no option but to throw the unusable product made by the companies who purposefully make products which don't last long .
4.3 billion in 1980 and 7.9 billion today with a forecasted 10 billion in 2050.
More people use and need MORE,
This ride is heading for a wall.
Overpopulated countries just have the front seat.
Meteor : and I oop
this video is very dangerous imo.. do not think for one moment that overpopulation is not a major problem because it very much is.
for the conclusion of your video, i would agree if you would recommend all of the suggested problems needs addressing now - overpopulation, over-consumption, and waste.
What is overseen in this video and is also extremely important is, that eventhough like at 7:11 it might be true for a moment, but they too will reach the living standard of the west or wherever it is better and they too will emit the same amount or even more emissions, waste etc.
This video seems to be lobbying for something so hard, contrasting a poor indian family with a wealthier american seems off. Overpopulation (while not only india's and china's fault, for sure) is certainly a problem
When you can’t even stand out in video games, you know there’s too many people
This seems more like India defending itself against American claims than actually talking about overpopulation
Sponsored by India lol
We are over populated.
I want to invite thanos 😔 now
Yeah... reality often disappointing
If only
There is no shortage of providence on Earth. It's not Earth's inability to provide, it's our inability to share.
Still waiting for that meteor to end us all
Equations are ok, we may advanced the technologies to overcome the resource shortages but every day we lose another piece of nature to make homes, factories and farms. We should reduce population and consumption to save our selves.
The eco-fascism in this comment section is astounding
The only thing I agree with is that we should avoid waste and overconsumption as much as possible
People not breeding like rabbits will make so many things better.
Overpopulation is the cause of all our problems and will be the cause of our distruction, you can't have everyone having kids but that's what most people are doing, something has to change.
What now you say they should ban having kids just because of this? Don't worry just leave straight forward and everything will be settled
Either bad way or good way
Greed and ungratefulness are the biggest threat: "If Adam's son (human) was given a valley full of gold, he'd like to have two valleys, for nothing fills his mouth except dust."
- Prophet Muhammad (sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam)
Yeah it's true. The United States is a nation of consumers. Americans always want the latest homes, cars, computers, cellphones, clothes, and other stuff they don't need. Online retail and shopping malls will keep this trend going until all resources are exhausted. One solution to this overconsumption is for Americans to recycle wood, plastic, rubber, and other raw materials to make more products.
What is over consuption ?Should I eat and drink less?
@@imnotracistbut7445 it means to only buy we actually need or consume...
why everytime i watch some documentaries like these, it is always shifting the focus to the overconsumption and green house gases emission problem emitted from other countries ? and then simply compare it, and explain it like the main narrative is not fair based from their point of view, and it sounds like a justification
but how about poverty ? how about waste production ? how about the number of land needed for human ? how about disease infection rate ?
How about overpopulation ‼️
@@motherearth1147 You will have the final say soon.
All of that is related to overpopulation
What about all the other species on the planet?
Thank you, sir. Because such documentaries as this are produced by "we are the world" evasive, make nice kydz still living at home expecting us to pay off their student loans incurred getting useless degrees in marketing, filmmaking, hospitality, philosophy, deconstructing English lit, journalism, psychology, fashion design. They are unable to live as well as their yuppie parents, who themselves are bitter about not being able to live as well as their grandparents in the 1950s and '60s, so naturally they pounce on those able to have a few nice things paid for with cash they earned, not mom and dad's credit cards.
8.125 billion is too many people any way you look at it. The NY Times ran articles about overpopulation fostering pandemics, 60 Minutes a segment about overpopulation causing mass species extinction. The above "documentary" producers are not ready for prime time, and should get jobs in construction, drywall contracting, cleaning fast food grease traps at 3am, enjoy their "service economy" jobs, and leave the thinking to scientists, every poll of whom has them agreeing overpopulation by far our biggest problem, their words, "bigger than climate." Patty cake and kumbaya will not cut it. Thanks again, Sandia, but you are to hip for this room of under-informed tots.
just stop having kids is NOT that deep
True and we need new war.
It's a no from us.
@@DWPlanetA No for what ?
Regarding the "new war" that @GTA4haterHQ mentions...
Deez nuts are deep.
I agree that waste and consumption are a big issue but how can overpopulation is not a big issue? Isn’t there a fact about limited land and spaces? Everyone should be allocated a decent amount of space for their overall and mental wellbeing as well.
Living in a cramp place with decent resources is not good enough. Everyone has their own dream and personal culture and that would also affect their lifestyle and consumption desire.
Developed countries are consuming more is also a result of a “wealthier country“ that they have more disposable income. Still there is a huge rich and poor gap here that need to be highlighted as well.
I still think overpopulation should be acknowledged and addressed.
@@anomonyous well said!
@@jolenejourne you developed country people got your A$$es burn when someone states fact.
An American is living a good life than a Chinese is not because of Americans struggle, their innovation, their hardwork.. But it is simply because of Imperialism.
What I am trying to say is that if powerful nations stop their imperialistic policies then there Economy will automatically decline & therefore it will mean less Carboon footprints.
What I am trying to say is that 10% of world population is living a FAR MORE SUPERIOR LIFE BY ENSLAVING THE REST 90%
The day it will stop, you will see less more countries with average living standards and it will reduce the population in developing as well as reduce the carbon footprint from developed countries because their lifestyle will become Average from Good.
@You can eat in class!! space is never the problem in overpopulation the problem is the fact that all the vital resources would deplete more animal species would die meaning less food and more people polluting the earth
Because populations are self-regulating depending on environmental conditions. Overpopulation is basically a myth. Pretty much every developed country's birthrate is trending towards there not being enough people to support the elderly populations. It'll reach an equilibrium when the resulting imbalances falls in on itself.
Some newly married couples in India wish to be child free or take time to think about it due to many reasons and this is one of them. Even during this pandemic, people find it hard to make a decision for themselves. But society forces them to have children within few months of marriage. Or it's considered a Taboo by many and are forced to face criticisms from relatives and others. Women and men are adviced by random people to visit the doctors to have a child as soon as possible. Most of the time, the couples are made fun of people or
they are often ignored in important traditional family events. Some in-laws force the newly wedded wives to have children as soon as possible or they will face the consequences and their sons might get infertile. Some people lack sexual education and do not understand the meaning of consent or do not wish to use contraception and they pregnant soon. They don't understand where the world is going these days. They just want to pop out babies.
Parents want their children to have children, so that their children do not question social and familiar traditions of having too many children and treating them poorly. The truth is that child needs massive amounts of love, attention, care and resources. But if you produce chidren to be extensions of yourself, helping hands around the house; so that older children help to raise the younger ones - it seems easier. I am not talking particularly about India here. Its the problem all over the world. Some people wake up to this and wait or dont want to have children, becose they are aware of just how terrible their childhood was, which society at large doesnt recognize. Hence criticism and push from society to have children quickly - if you have them, then you dont question this madness.
And God said "go forth and multiply". The kiss of death. The Black Death in England reduced the population. labour became scarce, wages rose and feudalism ended. Good plan.
How about rewarding the people that don’t have kids! They use less resources than a family! In the United States single people with no dependents are taxed more!!! Backwards thinking!!!
Well to be perfectly fair, the freedom you get from not having kids is a reward in itself which people take for granted
I mean, do you really have to? Kids are expensive. Not having them alone is financial incentive enough.
What we need to do is educate the poorer people, especially women, then they wont keep having children, thats the main thing, the limited access to education
It sucks how everyone talking about overpopulation shows footage of India. And our governments here don't acknowledge it as a problem. We're creating misery for ourselves and doing injustice to our upcoming generations.
I think dismissing overpopulation as being a concern is absurd. There are definitely more than enough people in the world.
But I think the bigger issue is not the fact that there are so many people, but the fact that in so many cultures this fact is being completely ignored. I think that it should become more socially acceptable for people to choose to have fewer (or no) children in every part of the world. This resolves over-population, helps improve the distribution of wealth, and encourages thoughtful reproduction which is what we *really* need.
On a side note as someone who had an incredibly miserable childhood because I was raised by people who only had children to satisfy social expectation - we can save a lot of kids from similar unnecessary pain.
Unfortunately, not having children is not a solution to overpopulation (China tried it), we live as a demographic pyramid and in order for retired and older people to survive there has to be more young people being part of the economy than there are retired people.
@@MightyCoco I didn't say don't have any children. I said only have children if you actually want them. And China is just generally poorly organised and far too focussed on profit and winning at everything. Other countries which have shrinking populations have found reasonable solutions to many of these problems (such as using elderly people's equity to support them financially).
We don't need the population to keep growing, we just can't have it shrink very suddenly. China tried to effectively halve their population in one generation (again - poor organisation), and of course it drove emigration out of the country, and they only realised it was a problem after it was too late to viably fix it - again poorly organised, no thought, innovation or foresight, and a one-track-minded obsession with accumulating fortune and 'winning' against all other nations. Not really a model for the rest of the world
I definitely agree
@@MightyCoco how about migration? So people don’t need no child policies and are always supplied with new „human recourses“. Also there are so many children without parents, people should think more about adoption instead of brining new life into this crowded world…
@@TinyCloud90 Hey, immigration causes social tensions man, it's a failed policy and what happens if the population also starts falling in the countries the immigrants are coming from.
A person should have to pass a competency test before they can become a parent. No wonder
Frankly if they bothered teaching basic parenting and financial literacy in schools the world would be outright utopic at this point.
For sure, it's strange to me how one has to go through a world of education and certifications to be qualified for the simplest jobs but can become a parent on a whim.
It is important to manage population. Each country has to manage their population growth. Also, if other nations can make the lives of their people better, they would not have to migrate to other parts of the world. The author of this video is obviously biased to their country. Instead of blaming other countries for the problem, why not take the responsibility of population, resource, and waste management.
it's good to have more population , like that we make wars and kill millions🤫😷🤐
The point about refrigeration is a valid concern, but the reason for its having developed into a concern relates to a growing population and the convenient storage for that which is consumed.