Re: The Apocalypse is getting Ready.
So you do think it is going to happen? You DON"T think it ISN"T going to happen? <_>~!
Producing food enough to feed the population is not necessarily the problem in itself. You are correct to assume that over population is a problem, but there are much larger problems than actually starving to death.
Statistical growth models show that populations grow and level off according to their development. As such, countries that are undeveloped do not grow, developing countries grow exponentially and developed countries do not grow (More specifically, do not grow means to grow very slowly :P).
Populations develop and then their population levels off, and as such it is possible to support such a population food wise (disregarding political issues.) Also, the USA has almost a 0 natural growth, and many european countries have a negative growth rate. The REAL growth is coming from immigration.
The bigger problem lies in the use of other resources like oil and fuels that cannot be regenerated. We expend resources on this planet constantly at an exponential rate that will not be recovered.
It is rather self evident that the developed countries of the world are going to collapse in on themselves if there are not critical changes made over the next few centuries. We will continue to expend fuels and oils until there is no profit to be made on it. A crisis will likely insure, assuming we don't start thinking ahead.
Fuel in itself is not a big problem, because there are other ways to run an engine using supplies that regenerate. Nuclear power could also easily sustain the planet with ease and efficiency. However, oils are used to make just about...everything. What are we going to do without oil?
So you do think it is going to happen? You DON"T think it ISN"T going to happen? <_>~!
Producing food enough to feed the population is not necessarily the problem in itself. You are correct to assume that over population is a problem, but there are much larger problems than actually starving to death.
Statistical growth models show that populations grow and level off according to their development. As such, countries that are undeveloped do not grow, developing countries grow exponentially and developed countries do not grow (More specifically, do not grow means to grow very slowly :P).
Populations develop and then their population levels off, and as such it is possible to support such a population food wise (disregarding political issues.) Also, the USA has almost a 0 natural growth, and many european countries have a negative growth rate. The REAL growth is coming from immigration.
The bigger problem lies in the use of other resources like oil and fuels that cannot be regenerated. We expend resources on this planet constantly at an exponential rate that will not be recovered.
It is rather self evident that the developed countries of the world are going to collapse in on themselves if there are not critical changes made over the next few centuries. We will continue to expend fuels and oils until there is no profit to be made on it. A crisis will likely insure, assuming we don't start thinking ahead.
Fuel in itself is not a big problem, because there are other ways to run an engine using supplies that regenerate. Nuclear power could also easily sustain the planet with ease and efficiency. However, oils are used to make just about...everything. What are we going to do without oil?
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