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7 Billion People and Counting: Concerns From Around the World

Posted by bluemana on October 31, 2011

PopulationGreat roundup of opinion found in the Detroit Free Press:

What’s the biggest issue facing humanity as the global population reaches seven billion?

Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper asked for an answer from correspondents around the world. Here are the replies, including a link to that from the Free Press. Note the recurring theme of fresh water, not a problem here in the Great Lakes region, but a critical issue for millions of people in many regions.

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  • olloloo

    How about age limits?

  • Reptoids

    How about Malthusian fascism?

  • http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

    How about Birthing Permits.

  • Misinformation

    I’m not sold on overpopulation. Maybe over population of greedy, ignorant people. As in, a large portion of “western” (yes, that’s a loaded general term)culture. But overpopulation in a real, person-per-needs circumstance, not convinced.

  • Anonymous

    World War.

    War is Mankind’s population control mechanism.

  • Mortimer

    How about less fucking? Well, at least the kind that spits out another knuckle-dragging human after 9 months.

  • Anonymous

    i agree, i think it’s vast over consumption and resource exploitation (inequitable share of resources).

    I saw David Harvey speak about this very subject last fall, and he and his audience seemed completely oblivious to the statistics of resource division and how post-industrial economies (yes, the ‘West’…) and consumerism are explicit in their plundering and waste of resources.

    While i do not think our system (as it were) is ABLE to support 7 billion people, I think a much closer look at the root causes would demonstrate our capitalist economic system is inherently unsustainability at the very least in an environmental context (saying nothing of social, cultural or mental sustainability)…

  • Simiantongue

    Carousel  Carousel Carousel !!!!

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  • Anonymous

    More people die annualy from suicide than warfare (and that stat would work factoring in WWII deaths as well)

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  • AL

    We DO NOT have a “population problem”! We have a space management problem. High density urban crowding, while rural sectors remain underdeveloped and empty. Also with science utilized as a sophisticated form of overcoming limitation rather than bombing each other to hell, we can inhabit new areas of earth such as the ocean, underground and even the open sky. Think about. The planet is about 70% covered in water. WE have plenty of room and the technological means to inhabit those spaces. Instead we use science as a military weapon creating huge battleships on the ocean when we can be building whole cities on the water instead!

  • AL

    We DO NOT have a “population problem”! We have a space management problem. High density urban crowding, while rural sectors remain underdeveloped and empty. Also with science utilized as a sophisticated form of overcoming limitation rather than bombing each other to hell, we can inhabit new areas of earth such as the ocean, underground and even the open sky. Think about. The planet is about 70% covered in water. WE have plenty of room and the technological means to inhabit those spaces. Instead we use science as a military weapon creating huge battleships on the ocean when we can be building whole cities on the water instead!

  • Heath

    Open up your ears i got an answer for you!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv2FuajJZ8

    now I think you know exactly how we feel..a sandwich is a sandwich but your grandpa’s a meal!

  • Heath

    We could start in New Jersey!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAlIHsXcLY

  • Anonymous

    Too many people?  Yeah, that’s a problem.

    Not enough Human Beings?  That’s a fr*ckin’ crisis.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously WW2 is the only war that has ever happened.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously WW2 is the only war that has ever happened.

  • Anonymous

    It is the most efficient way to kill Humans.