Overpopulation: the big lie

I R O N Y!!!! Coming from someone who can't distinguish the difference between overpopulation and food resources or thinks this is about the size of the planet and not space ON the planet. :palm:


Let's say you have a fenced in Pasture that can support 10 Horses to feed on the grass. Do you see a Problem if you put 20 Horses in the Pasture?
 
Did you even read the OP? There are many faulty reasoning. For example, the Earth is not a closed environment. If it is closed, it would stand to reason that the resources would run out.

Apparently you didn't read it or, due to your third grade reading comprehension level, didn't understand it. The author is expressing exactly that; that earth is NOT a closed environment. Let the adults in the room debate. You're incapable of understanding even the obvious. :palm:
 
Let's say you have a fenced in Pasture that can support 10 Horses to feed on the grass. Do you see a Problem if you put 20 Horses in the Pasture?

You are making the authors argument. The earth is NOT a closed environment. Therefore, arguments like yours are dumb.

But let's take your DUMB argument and make it smart to fit the point the author is trying to make. If you decide to increase the number of horses, you increase the pasture size or bring in nourishment from other sources.

The earth is neither overpopulated, nor are we incapable of feeding billions with the little resources we currently use to feed ourselves.
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Apparently you didn't read it or, due to your third grade reading comprehension level, didn't understand it. The author is expressing exactly that; that earth is NOT a closed environment. Let the adults in the room debate. You're incapable of understanding even the obvious. :palm:

*sighs*

If you actually comprehend the OP, it defines overpopulation as a situation where the number of people exhausts the resources in a closed environment such that it can no longer support that population.

That is a strawman. No expert ever defined that. It's a trap to convince you. Of course with that definition, the resources would run out. That's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS!

Hurr durr derpy if they locked people in a room, the water and food will run out and they'll starve. That ain't rocket science.
 
*sighs*

If you actually comprehend the OP, it defines overpopulation as a situation where the number of people exhausts the resources in a closed environment such that it can no longer support that population.

No it did not. It used the closed argument to illustrate how stupid the overpopulation claim is. Dumbass. :palm:

That is a strawman. No expert ever defined that. It's a trap to convince you. Of course with that definition, the resources would run out. That's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS!

Hurr durr derpy if they locked people in a room, the water and food will run out and they'll starve. That ain't rocket science.

^Uneducated, low IQ and unhinged dumbass once again proving his lack of intelligence and reading comprehension skills. You're such a boor dumbass. Run along. :palm:
 
No it did not. It used the closed argument to illustrate how stupid the overpopulation claim is. Dumbass. :palm:

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Do you know what a strawman is?

^Uneducated, low IQ and unhinged dumbass once again proving his lack of intelligence and reading comprehension skills. You're such a boor dumbass. Run along. :palm:

Says the guy who doesn't understand strawman.

Hurr durr derpy the Earth isn't a closed system, therefore there is no overpopulation.

That is poor logic.
 
You are making the authors argument. The earth is NOT a closed environment. Therefore, arguments like yours are dumb.

But let's take your DUMB argument and make is smart and fit the point the author is trying to make. If you decide to increase the number of horses, you increase the pasture size or bring in nourishment from other sources.

The earth is neither overpopulated, nor are we incapable of feeding billions with the little resources we currently use to feed ourselves.
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Well, 'Spaceship Earth' is called that because this is all we have. Earth.

The 'Pasture' is 'Earth' ... and the 'Horses' are the 'Humans'. There is NO MORE 'Pasture Land'.
I tried to simplify this for you. The 'Pasture' may be large, and the 'Horses' may not take up that much space. But their Consumption of the Environment (eating the grass) is the Problem.

Humans like Cars, TVs, Travel, Entertainment, etc., so their Consumption of the Environment is MUCH greater than the Horses. Does that help?
 
Well, 'Spaceship Earth' is called that because this is all we have. Earth.

The 'Pasture' is 'Earth' ... and the 'Horses' are the 'Humans'. There is NO MORE 'Pasture Land'.
I tried to simplify this for you. The 'Pasture' may be large, and the 'Horses' may not take up that much space. But their Consumption of the Environment (eating the grass) is the Problem.

Humans like Cars, TVs, Travel, Entertainment, etc., so their Consumption of the Environment is MUCH greater than the Horses. Does that help?

Call his mother to help explain it to him.
 
Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation
Anne Roback Morse and Steven W. Mosher
October 1, 2013

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We are contacted all the time by people asking for how they can refute the arguments that the world is overpopulated, so we have decided to create a short primer called “How to Debunk the Myth of Overpopulation in Three Easy Steps.”

Before we start, however, let’s define terms. Overpopulation describes a situation where the number of people exhausts the resources in a closed environment such that it can no longer support that population.

Let’s imagine that our PRI offices suddenly became a closed environment, with nothing allowed in our out. Obviously, our staff would exhaust the available resources very quickly: The water cooler would be drained dry, the refrigerator would be emptied out, and the oxygen would be all used up.

Obviously, our office has too many people for its natural resources, but we haven’t started trying to eliminate our co-workers to ensure our own survival. We haven’t launched a sterilization campaign against younger colleagues or encouraged older ones to jump out of the windows. Why not?

Well, of course, we are constrained by Catholic moral teaching. But aside from that, we know that the office is not a closed environment. Neither are most instances cited by overpopulation zealots, such as crowded cities or poor countries. None of these are closed environments.

Other instances of phony overpopulation occur when humans create artificially closed environments. If someone locked you in a room, most people wouldn’t blame your resulting demise on “the overpopulation of the room” but on the cruel person who locked you in. Similarly, if government policies prevent food from being transported to where it is needed, or distributed to those who are hungry, “overpopulation” is not to blame. It’s the policy, stupid.



Moreover, overpopulation is defined as a problem created by the numbers of people, not their behaviors. If every person demanded his or her own continent or island, the world would seem “overpopulated” very quickly.

Let’s keep these things in mind as we consider the argument that the earth, as a closed environment, is overpopulated. Is Spaceship Earth (as they like to call it), running out of resources? Let’s evaluate:

Food
“There isn’t enough!” Since the time of Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, doomsayers have gloomily predicted that mankind would outbreed its food supply, resulting in catastrophic famines. Yet the world currently produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, and there are only 7 billion of us. That is, with 7 billion human minds at work, we produce enough food for 10 billion human bodies.[1] Imagine how much food we can produce with 10 billion minds!

“But there are still hungry people in the world!” Yes, hunger remains a problem in some parts of the world, but it is not caused by the number of people. Commenting on the recent Somali famine, Oxfam, an international humanitarian organization, stated, “Famines are not natural phenomena, they are catastrophic political failures.”

https://www.pop.org/debunking-the-myth-of-overpopulation/

The Church of Green gets this myth from believing that people are nothing but liabilities, instead of also being assets. Yes, they need to eat. They also have hands and feet and the brains to raise food.
 
So. You are unable to accept the fact that 'Spaceship Earth' DOES HAVE a Carrying Capacity.
Which is a hell of a lot bigger than the current world population.
AND. You are unable to realize that once that Capacity is reached, you CAN NOT snap your fingers and stop further population growth.
You really need to get out of the city more and see the country.
 
I answered. You were too stupid to comprehend. Humans have been on earth for about 6 million years. Currently, they only occupy 2 to 3% of the planet. Now, using common sense and simple math, how long do you think it will take for man to overpopulate the planet?

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He denies common sense AND mathematics.
 
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