Overpopulation is a big problem, and every time the various charities and United Nations programs operating in many of these overpopulated areas save a life, they are also compounding the problems caused by unrestrained population growth. The demographic time bomb continues to develop.

Whatever happened to, "populate or perish"?

mhaze,

I stand by my earlier post.
The scientific evidence is there for everyone
to find.

In pre-industrialised
societies, human technology made comparatively
little demand on the resources of the environment.
Populations were relatively small, and for the most part
people's material needs were fairly limited and easily
satisfied.

Industrialisation, however, has brought about rapid
population increases - and also an apparently endless
expansion to people's material desires.

The most technologically advanced societies are now digging
ever deeper into the planetary environment for the raw
materials and energy they need to fuel their economic
development.

Advanced inustrial technology has had dramatic ecological effects.
It has lead to extensive pollution of air, water, and land,
with disruptive effects on the health of organisms and the
climate of the planet.

It has also lead to the rapid depletion of
resources such as minerals and fresh water.
Additionally, the combined effects of
pollution and habitat destruction are
causing a mass extinction of other species.

Technology is problematic because it is a factor in social
change - particularly in the modern world, where complex
technological fixes are applied to existing social and
technological problems, only to produce still more problems.

If this subject interests you - I recommend that you get hold
of a copy of Prof. Tor Hundloe's book - "From Buddha to
Bono: Seeking Sustainability," it makes interesting reading.

That overpopulation is a problem is an understatement.

In 1900 world population was 1.6 billion; by 1985 it was 5 billion (= world's sustainable population); in 2019 it is 7.7 billion and rising rapidly.

In 10,000 years it went from a little over 5 million to 1.6 billion; in 120 years it went from 1.6 billion to 7.7 billion.

So, who's the blame and how do we stop it?

mhaze

Australia has run out of the southern bluefin tuna and pilchard and herring commercial resource. Bluefin tuna were so many it is said they used to cover the towns of Bermagui and Eden during the season. But not anymore. The bluefin fishery and others in those towns are commercially dead.

At Lakes Entrance Victoria the pilchard and anchovie populations were scientifically estimated ycapable of supplying 200,000 tonnes per annum but never exceeded 10,000 tonnes p.a when Australia's most diversified fish processing plant there closed due to lack of the resource. The latter is what the plant manager told me first hand on site while the huge plant was being demolished.

Overfishing was not the cause. I have evidence of substance showing the cause was/is sewage and land use nutrient pollution proliferating epiphyte growth and other algae causing reduction of sunlight required for natural photosynthesis in seagrass nurseries on which pilchard and anchovy depend.

Relevant data is surely fake to make people think no resource in Australia has been lost.

There is much more to all of this. N.B here:
http://twitter.com/FelixFarley77/status/1153104160587280384?s=19

"Whatever happened to, "populate or perish"?

It's now populate AND perish.