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JesuXPIPassio
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Overpopulation is actually a bit of a misnomer. It isn’t so much that the world is overpopulated. It’s just that population is concentrated heavily on some parts more than others.
If you took the gross sum of all the world’s land and divided it up to the 6-point-something billion human beings, there would be more than enough room for everyone. I saw the specific figures some time ago, and sorry I don’t remember what they were, but there is no doubt that if everything were averaged out, “overpopulation” is just not reality.
That being said, remember that all the world’s people aren’t uniformly scattered throughout the world. Many places have millions of people living there. Many other places are just inhabital. Humans tend to thrive where there is water, for example. Think of the river Nile. Humans also are not expected to go out and live in the middle of the North American deserts, so much to the point that the government buries nuclear waste there.
Now, from the differing levels of concentration, problems to arise from population. In many, many places, water is at a severe shortage. Some places are already in drought. Others will be in the next few decades. Mankind as of yet has not found a good, universally-practical way of solving this issue. There are some ways of trying to help it, like getting condensation from the air, purifying rainwater or de-salinising seawater, but again, they aren’t universal in their practicality. De-salinisation, for example, is really costly; even if you overcome that, you still have to worry about what to do with the leftover salt. If you dump it back into the ocean, it could raise the salt levels in there and kill off the marine animals and plantlife.
Differing levels of concentration also affect pollution. I won’t bother talking about how heavily-populated places would have loads of trash – that’s pretty self-explanatory right there. But, greenhouse emissions come out of some countries much more than others; how have these concentrations affected the ozone layer? I don’t know, I wish I did; would there still be this ozone disaster if the whole world released the same amount of greenhouse emissions and carbon dioxide at the same pace, would there be a hole in the ozone layer?
If you took the gross sum of all the world’s land and divided it up to the 6-point-something billion human beings, there would be more than enough room for everyone. I saw the specific figures some time ago, and sorry I don’t remember what they were, but there is no doubt that if everything were averaged out, “overpopulation” is just not reality.
That being said, remember that all the world’s people aren’t uniformly scattered throughout the world. Many places have millions of people living there. Many other places are just inhabital. Humans tend to thrive where there is water, for example. Think of the river Nile. Humans also are not expected to go out and live in the middle of the North American deserts, so much to the point that the government buries nuclear waste there.
Now, from the differing levels of concentration, problems to arise from population. In many, many places, water is at a severe shortage. Some places are already in drought. Others will be in the next few decades. Mankind as of yet has not found a good, universally-practical way of solving this issue. There are some ways of trying to help it, like getting condensation from the air, purifying rainwater or de-salinising seawater, but again, they aren’t universal in their practicality. De-salinisation, for example, is really costly; even if you overcome that, you still have to worry about what to do with the leftover salt. If you dump it back into the ocean, it could raise the salt levels in there and kill off the marine animals and plantlife.
Differing levels of concentration also affect pollution. I won’t bother talking about how heavily-populated places would have loads of trash – that’s pretty self-explanatory right there. But, greenhouse emissions come out of some countries much more than others; how have these concentrations affected the ozone layer? I don’t know, I wish I did; would there still be this ozone disaster if the whole world released the same amount of greenhouse emissions and carbon dioxide at the same pace, would there be a hole in the ozone layer?
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