In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?

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Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained

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23 COMMENTS

  1. Isn't there another stage where deaths start to outweigh births, isn't Germany and Japan going through that stage because families are either working harder or they just don't want children, I guess he kind of hinted at that near the end however, hopefully we get technology that prolongs human life when the rest of the world reaches that stage.

  2. So as an example. What about the fact that the aquifer supplying the water to the great planes in the US. Where most food in the US is growing. Continues to be drawn out of, it will run dry in decades. And it takes it thousands of years to recharge.

  3. 7.6 billion people on this over populated planet and always growing. The planet does not have the resources for all to live in 1st world standard.  Don't try to spin overpopulation as a good thing. That fact is if China or India had a population of 350 million rather than 1.3 billion life in those counties would be better plain a simple.

  4. Good vid! Two points of critique though:
    1) the industrial revolution did the exact opposite for women. Prior to it, women and men worked side by side in domestic prodcution, usually sharing the burden. This gave women relative power to as they helped provide. With the industrial revolution, the workplace and the home became seperated, with the 'traditional' division between women manning the home and men working. The result was that now the husband provided and women 'merely' looked after the house and kids (in richer homes, sometimes not even that).

    2) This video does not take into account that while population growth is slowing down, they are still growing overall and the strain on resources is already far too much. In 2015 the news went out that by May, we had already used up all the earths natural production for that year and were running on what we had stockpiled (which fortunately was a lot). At to that, that developed countries use much more resources on average, so the developing of other nations, while morally good, is not good news for the resource outlook.

  5. He stated that the population of developed countries has stabilized due to a lower birth rate. What he has failed to take into consideration, is the willingness of certain countries within Europe to pack ever increasing numbers of immigrants, and refugees, into their countries. The population in the UK for example is still increasing at an alarming rate as of 2017 due to immigration and lack of border control. This kind of behaviour from developed, weak, liberally governed countries, could completely throw his world population predictions out of the window.

  6. Technology has only given license to the dull people in the world to buy in the fantasy of infinite resources. Technology has only pushed the population end of the world scenario down the road. It hasn't eliminated it. Try nearly 12 billion at the end of the 21st century. The whole east coast of the China is a Megacity, as is all coastal areas. The problem is so great, food production moves out to sea on artificial islands and into the cities themselves yet it still not enough. The energy requirement is as much as twenty times what it is now, so either we construct fusion plants or a lot more nuclear ones. Which means the number of nuke plant will be as much a four times it is now maybe more. The worse crisis is fresh water, water reclamation will be mandatory, meaning you will be drinking your neighbors pee. As though you were in a space station or submarine. Size of domiciles will be tiny, because man will live in apartments that will be as big a mountain ranges. Oh yeah some will choose to live in space to get away from the sardine mass transit systems that snake around the world like blood vessels or the incredible crowded airspace across the planet. This assumes that war hasn't obliterate the planet.

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