Loudmouth yes, just think, if we truly aided people to have education health and a life worth living in their own country's it would be a better world, but some still insist it would not

the Polynesians were great navigators.
Hasbeen,
No-one's denying that there were seafarers amongst them who learnt from the failures of the first venturers, just like in other regions of this planet. I for one would expect nothing less than superior knowledge of the see from someone whose whole life is on/by the sea.
Just as I'd expext someone from the jungle or the Alps being superior in their environment than someone from an unfamiliar environment.
What I was getting at was that, there would have been many who simply perished because they could not find land which they could not possibly have known existed until they found it by chance. It was then that they began honing their skills & refine technique. My mate used to ferry planes via Greenland in the pre GPS days & he tells of many lost because they missed a certain place near greenland & would have run out of fuel & ditched. The same would have happened to polynesians when they ran out of wter to drink. The populating of the sparsely or believed uninhabited lands began very gradual but since the europeans built lage ships this populating turned into a literal flooding by humans.
Humans now have the responsibility to control & curb this new phenomenon of religious invasion because this new wave is bringing with it social & economic mayhem with it's runaway procreation.

//The populating of the sparsely or believed uninhabited lands began very gradual but since the europeans built lage ships this populating turned into a literal flooding by humans.
Humans now have the responsibility to control & curb this new phenomenon of religious invasion because this new wave is bringing with it social & economic mayhem with it's runaway procreation.//

I fail to see how European colonisation brings with it 'social & economic mayhem'. Social mayhem, sure, I can see what you're getting at there. But economic mayhem? That's nonsense. Many of those colonised people weren't even up to the bronze age in terms of technological development. Of course colonisation benefited them economically. It's ludicrous to suggest otherwise.

Toni Lavis,
i DID say Humans, not europeans in the final sentence.

For what ever reason world population took off most will think about the time of the industrial revolution.
What if it continues to grow? are we keeping up the pace with health care? education/housing/is war a by product of population?

Belly,

According to this on Wikipedia,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth

World population will rise from 7 billion in 2010 to 8.5 billion in 2030 (i.e. a rise of 1.5 billion in twenty years), to 9.8 billion in 2050 (a rise of 1.3 billion in twenty years ) and to 11.2 billion in 2100 (a rise of 1.4 billion in fifty years). It would be possible to monitor estimated populations in countries annually, to see if these later figures are under- or over-shot. But clearly, even the most doom-laden projections expect a slow-down and therefore eventually, a maximum.

My bet is that the figures for 2030 might be slightly lower, 8.3 billion, and those for 2050 and 2100 (long after the worms have got me) correspondingly lower. 11 billion might be as high as it ever gets.

Meanwhile, the incidence of poverty world-wide has more than halved in fifty years. Average world education levels have risen strongly - the rates of illiteracy have declined. World food production has massively increased since 1970. Women's rights are much more centre-stage, as is their rights to education.

But I have no worries if anybody wants to build their hermit's platform and spend the rest of their lives safely above the heaving throngs below.

Joe