Um, that's why we have large farms that grow crops.. I thought this person would actually speak intelligently about water availability, which is the true limiting factor in places like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, but that is more a basis on what residents are willing to spend for a gallon of water, rather than not having any water to spare.
Why is it that this loser wants us to revert back to the stone age?
Why am I limited to 12 acres???
My foot print is 56 Acres ... kewl.
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Anyone who thinks overpopulation is not a problem should stop sticking his head in the sand take a look around the country and compare to what it used to be.
Tom Wolfe has an excellent chapter on this topic - "Sliding down the behavioral sink" and already in the 1960s or 70s people such as the Rienows pointed out the problems. I can no longer afford to buy homes in the kind of neighborhoods my parents lived even though relatively speaking they made a lot less money.
The cities are already there. The last time I looked, it was the burbs that are growing so fast.
Too many useless eaters in cities. It's that simple. Too many sucking money out of the taxpayers wallets.
With the troubles that Western Europe faces due to the last several generations reproducing at well below replacement levels (2.1 children per couple), anyone in America who spouts this "population bomb" propaganda clearly exposes himself as trying to undermine America by reducing our reproduction rate. As it is, we are just barely squeaking by. They want to replace through immigration those with rooting in America with foreign nationals. France and "the French" are disappearing before our very eyes.
Nah, I've read on FR many times that you just can't have too many babies. I reckon the problem is over-concentration of undesirables in the cities, not overpopulation.
WHERE WILL THE WATER COME FROM TO SUPPORT THIS GROWING POPULATION?
This is advanced as a objective, rigorous definition of a supposedly scientific term, carrying capacity. Upon closer examination, however, we see that the term is neither exact nor rigorous. The qualifier "and without degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations" makes the whole thing very subjective indeed. Our friends on the Left would likely have a different idea of what is meant by a a degraded social, cultural, or economic environment.
The carrying capacity for any given area is not fixed. It can be altered by improved technology, but mostly it is changed for the worse by pressures which accompany a population increase. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity actually shrinks, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment's carrying capacity for very long.
The meaning of the bolded clause is not clear. Is the author saying that population increases usually reduce the carrying capacity? This would not seem to accord with any reasonable definition of "capacity." (Does the capacity of a 1-liter bottle change when a liter of liquid is placed in it?)
Or is the author saying that the carrying capacity of the earth has historically declined as population increases? That does not appear to be true.
I did my part - I left nyc! :-)
I would have said, hate-filled, left-wing extremists were destroying the cities.
It's not like immigrants started showing up here last week.
No it isn't. It's a direct function of economic growth.
True but democrats love and need VICTIMS..
The odds of that changeing under democrat political control is very remote..
Can't keep the trends of disaster straight any more.
The biggest threat to large U.S. cities is liberal RAT city politicans!
There are areas that are populated, but this story makes it seem like we are running out of room. That is just not true. Every state has a lot of empty space to build on. Rhode Island which is the smallest states has a huge amount of land to build if they really wanted to. I don't think this should be a major issue to worry about with everything else to worry about these days.
While some may eat bananas, a two legged stool may work.