Do you think the earth can support anymore humans?

As far as basic needs are concerned.

Yes 48
No 73
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  • JustRandomStranger

    No, it is way too overpopulated. They should make this rule about how everyone after today can only have 2 children and no more. Parents who have 3rd children the day after the rule is applied will be executed because their place will be replaced by the 3rd child they aren't supposed to have.

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  • Avant-Garde

    At the rate we are going, I don't think the planet will be able to for much longer. I think the leaders/scientists of our world need to start looking for other means of living. This could be technology to build sustainable communities underwater or in the air or finding a habitable and non-inhabited planet or terraforming. I think it would also be very beneficial if the government(s) ended their embargo on the truth as apparently they have technology that is capable of doing these things. More sustainable farming methods must be used and us humans should stop trying to play "god" by bio-genetically engineering nature as it further helps to harm the environment.

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  • disthing

    Yes. We could support many, many more humans. If all you are talking about is basic needs, we could probably expand to 10 billion, maybe more. Of course that would be if resources were allocated precisely and equally amongst the people.

    We currently produce enough food to feed more than every single person alive today. There is a huge amount of unoccupied land. There is ample water.

    They're the facts, without emotion.

    Whether or not we'd want more people on the planet is another, personal and subjective issue. But the evidence suggests we are far from a theoretical 'maximum capacity'.

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    • CRuNKShaNK

      10 billion? Sheesh, easy lol.

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  • CRuNKShaNK

    Yes we can support more humans, though we couldn't eat any more meat. If you're smart or read a lot of sci-fi I'm sure you at least know the theory of plants vs. meat because of the amount of land meat takes up. We could have a hundred billion people in fact, though in an over populated environment like that we'd probably have to go communist tooo so meeeeeeehhhhh.

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    Yes, without question. Obviously whether or not it would be wise to push our limits is a totally different matter.

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  • Hitlеr

    No, but most of them aren't really humans

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    • Moonbow

      Right you are!

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  • suckonthis9

    No.

    The Planet Earth, and its finite resources can't support the approximately 7,125,000,000 (seven billion, one-hundred and twenty-five million) humans that are currently alive.
    In fact, about one billion of these people are starving. Over five million starved to death (so far) this year alone.

    Worldometers - real time world [data]

    http://www.worldometers.info

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    • suckonthis9

      The number of starving people is set to increase dramatically, due to the current depletion of our food reserves, and the extreme weather conditions in practically every region on Planet Earth (detrimental to agriculture).

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    • CRuNKShaNK

      oh shit .1% of the world died of hunger? awwww. D:

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      • CRuNKShaNK

        poor africans.

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  • Moonbow

    Messages consisting of a set of 10 guidelines or principles are engraved on the Georgia Guidestones (erected in Elbert County, Georgia) in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the monument from due north, these languages are carved in English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. The messages are:

    1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
    2. Guide reproduction wisely improving fitness and diversity.
    3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
    4. Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason.
    5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
    6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
    7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties.
    8. Prize truth, beauty, love, seeking harmony with the infinite.
    9. Be not a cancer on the earth. Leave room for nature. Leave room for nature.
    10. Balance personal rights with social duties.

    The very first message is to keep the population below 500 million and right now, the world population is almost 8 billion. Until the population is radically reduced, via something like a pandemic of Spanish influenza proportions, the other nine messages are moot.

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    • disthing

      *7 billion.

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      • Moonbow

        7.9 billion to be exact, which makes it almost 8 billion.

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        • disthing

          7.1 billion actually, far from 8 billion. I don't know where you're getting your information from but I suggest looking at some other sources.

          There's a nice little counter that estimates the world population continuously:
          http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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  • Eveyana

    Yes, if we actively tried to be more resourceful, expedient and sustainable.

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  • hairyfairy

    A lot of the over population of this planet is being driven by people who shouldn`t be allowed to reproduce in the first place. Wev`e done away with survival of the fittest, & future generations will suffer as a result.

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  • dom180

    I guess so. I mean, the next baby to get popped out won't evaporate upon birth because we've reached some capacity limit. We've got a few billion left in us (not that it would necessarily be a positive for the rest of planet).

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    • hehehe, I thought it was worded a bit strangely too. :)

      I imagined the mass of the human population being too much for the Earth's crust to hold and suddenly fissures open up and oodles of people fall in, being incinerated as they rush towards the lava. :O
      The Earth can't hold the humans!!!! Ahhhhhhh!

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      • robbieforgotpw

        Whoever wants to reduce the population should volunteer to be exterminated first. Hear that eugenecists?!

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      • dom180

        Haha! That image shouldn't be as hilarious as it is :D Presumably the Earth had already swallowed all the other creatures of the world, and the entire surface of the globe was just packed shoulder-to-shoulder with grumbling humans before they too slip into the abyss :S

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  • handsignals

    It's a proven fact that Earth is overpopulated.

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    • disthing

      No it's not.

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  • loopoo

    The earth is under strain.

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  • DangerousPotatoGuy

    The world spent a total of 1735 billion on war in 2012, it only takes 135 billion to totally eradicate poverty 2FF

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    • davesumba

      Because giving everyone free money is going to teach them how to support themselves after it runs out . . .

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    • CRuNKShaNK

      Did you get that fun fact on stumble upon or something?

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  • Rusty-Rider

    Soylent Green comes to mind.

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  • LolCookies

    I Really Dont Know.
    Arent Scientists Looking For Another Planet For A Sign Of Life. So We Can Start Building Things There. To Me Seems Like That Movie. Pandora or Pandorum
    Something Like That.

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    • CRuNKShaNK

      No, that's fucking retarded. It'd take us 25,000 years to get to another solar system, let alone a planet hospitable to life. We must use our resources wisely,

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  • philosephorSteve

    NO! NO! NO! i hate thinking about the world population .... we should have more then 5billion people... EVER ! were allready running out of fresh water and in 100-200 years its guna be hell to find good water and a lot more things. our natural resources are going down the drain as we speek

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    • CRuNKShaNK

      hmmm? building homes n shit and getting food really ain't a problem for having perhaps a 100 bill. people, though what really is a problem is getting water yes, so we'd probably have to get a cheap salt water purifier or something.

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  • watermelonninja

    yeah. this Earth was meant to be more populated. But I don't think humanity is getting any better.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs

    Absolutely, but only for basic needs. It would be unlikely that an extra 2-4 billion would be able to live in relative comfort that we expect in the West. We're talking 3rd World poverty existence here.

    Oh and unlike most peoples ramblings here, I have studied this as part of my degree so I know my shit.

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