Maybe it’s true that the planet has finite resources… (Whatever happened to space travel?) But given the choice I’d much rather live on a radically overpopulated planet, come what may, than have some effeminate Cambridge schmuck deciding what DNA lines get to go another generation.

Or maybe we should just sterilize the British upper class. That’ll solve a lot of problems right there.

“In fact, we could give every single family on earth a house and a yard and still fit every single person in the world in just the state of Texas.”

Really? Ever heard of math?

Texas Land = 261,914 sq. mi.
640 acers in a sq. mi.

So 167,624,960 one acer yards.

Actual world population is 6,827,500,000.

You would need 40 areas the size of Texas,. not to mention that not all land is useable for houseing. People use resources from a MUCH larger area that their yard to survive. Things like roads between all those yards, parks, schools, factories, parking lots, megamarts, malls, farms, orcherds, feedlots, quaries, forests for wood to build all those little pink houses, etc., etc.

1. There is a food crisis in the making. Your site mentions the bees. There is also the problem of bad weather (let’s just call it “bad weather” since you don’t believe in Global Warming). In fact, half of all agricultural counties were declared national disaster areas by either state or federal officials last year. Right now, grain stores are at their lowest levels since we started making records – and too much of what we do have is going to “biofuels.”

2. We have grown our population mainly due to the prosperity and affluence afforded to us by cheap oil. Whether oil really is running out or whether the Evil Liberal Conspiracy directed by the Build-a-Burgers or whomever is just stopping us from finding the creamy nugget of abiotic oil that our loving God refills each day…the end result is the same. No more cheap oil. That means no more cheap food, no more good jobs, no more good medical care.

3. What are we going to do about “over-population?” Well, really, nothing. People aren’t going to have kids that they can’t afford, so people won’t be replaced. People are going to die earlier when our health-care system implodes. Life is going to get harder and lots of people simply won’t endure. The usual suspects – famine, pestilence, violence – are going to take care of the “over-population.” God’s done it before (think the Black Death)…it’s part of His standard bag of tricks. But we aren’t the kind of country that tries to “do” anything about people breeding, and I doubt that a government that’s too broke to plug an oil well has the resources to put chastity belts on each nubile woman in America.

4. Those who do try to do something about over-population by not breeding will face the horror of seeing people they despise breed – often, people who breed the most belong to exclusive religious groups that claim to be the “one true church,” like traditionalist Roman Catholicism or Mormonism, or else they’re part of groups who hate the United States for cultural/ethnic reasons and want to replace our society with one of their own making. Those of us who decide to “do something” about overpopulation hand over the future to those who hate the majority and want to replace it with a new majority – one where many of us will be excluded, repressed, or even ethnically cleansed. The religious fanatics next door who have six kids may watch three of their children die in the crap-storm that’s coming…but maybe your two children will die, too, so the nut-job’s wacko religious group will still end up ahead, even if the breeder experiences more personal grief.

So, in conclusion, not having kids tends to be bad for you personally, and is bad for your religious/ethnic community…but a lot of us aren’t going to survive, and a lot of our kids won’t survive what’s coming, either. It’s a real pickle.

When you do not love your neighbour, he is always one too many on earth.

The 2nd video is particularly true. Man face extinction, and overpopulation or not, there is no way now to stop it.
# in 10-20 years we will start to run out of petrol, natural gas, lithium, uranium, etc.
==> direct consequences: no cars, no roads, no fertilizers, no pesticides, no batteries, no plastics, no tyres, no satellite, mining by hand, global crop failure
===> secondary consequence: global hunger, civil wars, collapse of health system
====> we end up in a post-industrial stone age with a tenth of the global population
# that is if we survive the impeding financial apocalypse: bankrupt governments bailing out banks who lended to bankrupt people, honest savers investing in pension funds who invest in over-inflated mortgage-backed securities and bankrupt government bounds. We can already hear the cracks in the systems, economists and analysts are more scared than I’ve ever seen
==> the governments may collapse in all of the industrialised world: US, Europe, China, middle-East,… everyone drank to the stained (un)real estate bubble
===> secondary consequences will be similar to the above
====> when we will recover we will have a few good years before running out of resources and getting back to the first case.

Overpopulation is not the issue, our way of life is.
We need to get back to nature, learn to live in harmony with God’s creation as nature’s steward, accept death when it comes, and most importantly, learn to love our neighbours.

There is no other way, if we do not comply to it willingly, nature will force us to do it in our lifetime.

It is true that technological advance can allow us to grow more food. However, we could have an even higher standard of living if we just had the technological advance itself without a corresponding population explosion. What you people have failed to realize is that having fewer people means having a higher quality of life because the amount of resources per capita–oil, high quality farmland, land itself, lumber, etc., would increase, decreasing the costs for those resources.

I get the sense that your opposition to the claim that population growth is a problem comes from Christian dogmatism–in this case a belief that abortion and birth control are wrong. Why not just oppose abortion and birth control while also acknowledging the reality that we live in a world of finite resources? Is God going to create a second Earth for us if our population explodes to 20 billion?

I suspect that the opposition to abortion and birth control is the real motivating factor underlying this viewpoint as well as that of the cartoons’ author, which dramatically reduces the credibility of these claims that having a higher population is not a problem.

I think that most children in a daycare center can understand that when there is a limited number of cookies, they’ll be able to eat fewer cookies when there are more children around.