Maybe you are not understanding the full extent of Catholic teachings?
Maybe you should calculate backwards, I did that once and I think the backword calculation indicated it took 500 years to obtain the current world population? ( I used 5 kids per family). The point is the calculation is theorical and varies greatly from reality
The point is not that we should all live in Texas (for one thing, I wouldn’t want all the folks who screwed up places like NYC and Chicago and Boston and D.C. and the Left Coast to go and screw up Texas
) … the point is that we’re nowhere near running out of space or resources. Besides, the population of NYC is not evenly distributed and there are also plenty of folks who work in NYC who don’t even live there.
You assume that the rates will constantly grow. Many made the same mistake in the stock market–expecting only growth. Sorry to remind you of this, but people die. There is no guarrantee that current popoulation rate will continue to grow
As a mathematical statement this is true because mathematical terms are constant. In the real world, however, change is the only constant. Yours is the same argument Thomas Malthus suggested two hundred years ago to warn of impending massive starvation due to population growth. Since then population has exploded and most countries are now better fed than ever; the exact opposite of what was predicted then. There is no reason to believe that current predictions based on the same flawed argument will fare any differently.
Yah who cares about the potential mass starvation and death from diseases! Lets be like bacteria!
Man has a remarkable ability to produce the food he needs. Consider how populated the Earth is and how small a percentage of farmers and farmland manage to sustain the needs of humanity. Consider also how man is blessed by God with industriousness. Now compare to such abilities as has historically been witnessed. Therefore, unfounded that people “*will *reach a state where people will simply be born and starve to death…” due to not being able to figure out how to provide for themselves.
Earths resources do have a limit. There is a point where humans will no longer be able to multiply. That may be another 6 - 10 - 20 billion people away, who knows, but like any population there is a limit. There is a physical limit to how much food we can produce. Unless we start occupying and terra-forming other worlds.
Yep exactly there is only so much ariable land only so much water that is usable for drinking and argriculture. So on and so forth and since we are a long ways from terra forming other worlds much less colonizing them…we need to make the one we have last. And yes there is human ingenuity but people need to realize we aren;t Gods…even humanity has limits…there might not always been a new techology or what not that bails us all out.
Well I could have said rabbits. It was just a figure of speach. If people only had as many children as they could support then this would not be a problem. And without a problem we would have no need for a solution.Yah who cares about the potential mass starvation and death from diseases! Lets be like bacteria!
lol I didn;t mind the terminolgy and yeah I admit I wasn;t sure on your position at first. I have heard too many people who seem to think that we could multiply like rabbits or bacteria and think we would just be fine. That we would always find a way to increase productivy that we always manage to invent some techology to bail us out just in time. But yeah I agree
So if there were approximately 20 billion people (roughly seven times what there is now), we would need seven times the amount of farmland? Did you know there is plenty of land available to accomodate this? No need for terra-forming.
Nonsense. There is plenty of ariable land and good fresh drinking water. Can you guess how many people it would take so there wasn’t enough drinkable water?
So what would you propose?
While the rate at which the earths population grows does resemble an exponential function, so does the rate in which information doubles. It is rumored that as we speak, information doubles every two to four weeks, and this rate continues to grow as we obtain new and more powerful computers and technologies. This new information and technology should allows us to expand our technological abilities to accommodate a growing population. Bearing this in mind, I have a great deal of hope revolving the survival of the Human race and the resources of our planet.
Regardless there is a finite point at which there is not enough physical material to support X amount of humans. Whatever that number is. I was just using 20 billion as an example. At some point Terra-forming would be required.
Well let us assume we are capable of turning all of the water in the oceans drinkable and recycle instantaneously all of the water a human body excretes, regardless of how gigantic the number seems it would still be finite…