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Published: 2011-03-12 09:31:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2182; Favourites: 142; Downloads: 25
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We're currently at 6 billion and are only 100,000,000 people away from 7 billion
You look at the World Population Meter here and you're saying to yourself everytime it awkwardly raises in number "C'mon, stop, go back one! No, no, you just jumped to 3 people!"
Very uncomfortable.
The facts I derived from a show on Discovery Channel about what would happen to the Earth after Population Overgrowth.
Even if these statistics are mathematically incorrect through your study, this doesn't mean that this is a problem that isn't happening, or will happen.
We need to control our super-massive population and this stamp supports awareness of that.
Take note: I am not telling people to stop having children.
But do some of us really need 10 children to achieve happiness in life? Two children can win your heart, I'm sure. And if you adore children so much - work in a daycare, be a nanny, or for the love of God, adopt.
6 billion is getting a little too cosy.
HELP SPREAD AWARENESS With every person you present these facts to, the more people will give a second thought.
If not by using this stamp, link, advertise, anything. To create change, we must start now.
If you want to watch about it: [link]
It wasn't the one I watched, but it's got chillingly similar statistics.
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How the heck are we suppost to support the people who can't support themselves with so many to look after? We still haven't even been able to manage what we have now!!
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That's why I think it's funny when we complain about species regulation for animals. >.> What the fuck ever.
But you know what I honestly believe? The whole extinction of dinosaurs, the ice age...and the furture apocalypse. I think it's all a way to get rid of a huge and nonstop population. Humans won't simply die off like animals can, so I believe the apocalypse will wipe us all out as the natural "species regulation". How ironic for us.
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Good point... Didn't think of that.
What future apocalypse?
I dunno, the asteroid came from space 
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You've heard of 2012 right? Well, while I don't beleive it will happen then (the Mayan calender was off; said the same thing would happen at 2000 but it didn't), that's the apocalypse that I think will ultimately wipe us out once and for all, or perhaps even rebirth the world.
I don't beleive the astroid thing. While it may have been a factor, there's no way one single impact wiped out an entire world of dinosaurs. We've seen how violent and destructive valcanoes are, and I think a huge and violent chain reaction of them is what really killed them off.
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|Oh yeah that LOl I saw the movie and like 2 people in one hour in the Astronomy section of Yahoo! Answers spamming about whether or not it's real.
I wonder if another ice-age/asteroid will come within our lifetime, or come to us when we make us extinct ourselves?..
So I guess you're saying, regardless of how big we're prolly gonna get, we're gonna get hit by something regardless LOL. I vote the Large Hadron Collider death [link]
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SOmebody need to get a conspiracy going to make laws over the whole world of "2 children per couple" The population would lower a bit, which we need, after which the orginization could balance out the population.
(Also, my personal policy is that if somebody complains about both this and abortion, I punch them in the throat. Thankfully, it has yet to happen.)
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A conspiracy? P: People would start going nuts because of those - so maybe a conspiracy isn't it!
And hopefully due to natural causes, our population will go down when people die in the next 20 years. Edge away from the 7 billion.
(I agree)
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Yes, they would, but that's half the fun.
Chances are it will. Facts are, it won't be pretty.
(most sensible people do 
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At the risk of your own immune system? You're brave!
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And then there will be nobody lol
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cockroaches inherit the earth
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best law that could be made is BIRTH CONTROL!
great stamp!
very true!
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Aww well the people who really WANT bigger families is the problem. People who take birth control will be just the sort who doesn't want them. Otherwise, big-family-enthusiasts aren't gonna be using it see P:
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yea and you will have also a lot of non registered kids =/
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-shivers- This is a cold truthful reality. I been thinking about this A LOT lately. And I agree about the children part. I mean really, we can help by adopting etc.
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Very smart, I like it...
Though thankfully mammals produce live young rather than go by binary fission lol
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yeah, at LEAST humans need a couple of opposite sex in order to breed, otherwise thered bemuch more ppl! 
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I'm probably gonna get shot at, but think of all the mass genocides and "exterminations" over human history. Now imagine if those hadn't happened. 15 million in the Holocaust, right. What if they all had grandchildren, great-grandchildren.
Frig, man, we'd be swamped. :/
Over population is probably also due to extended life spans. In the past 50 years North America's jumped up more than 10 years, so.
i love google. so much.
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Yeah, their families were quite large from what I remember due to religious beliefs. (Someone correct me, I'm going by what I know of "Fiddler on the Roof", with Tevye's 5 daughters!) As much as beliefs should be respected we just can't support this! Saying the world is over-populated doesn't make anyone a hypocrite for it being a belief too, because it's not. It's pure evidence that we cannot support this much life.
It's really daring of you to bring up a statement involving the atrocity
Very right, our lifespans have increased in the Western world, and it certainly has added to the numbers, so Western's certainly aren't innocent to all this!
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Agreed. We're going to be completely screwed soon. :/
But is anyone innocent? We're all contributors. -shot-
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Not if we got the word out. Tell me, if people knew, would people change?
Well we are if we ever reproduce (me = not gonna happen lol), but we are just for existing yeah LOL
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Probably not. /sigh
I think I want just one or two. Just so I have someone to take care of me when I'm old and crazy and a knit-freak. 8D
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Go maybe spread that info in China or wherever else wher they multpily as crazy, or at muslim conutries. My country is in demographical crisis. It gets old, and young people dont procreate enough (willingly or not). Soon there will be only old people. Dont get me wrong, but while you and other similar are so worried for overpopulation, some desperados even would suicide for this idea 
No offence. I just say what I see around me and what is obvious fact.
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Though within the next couple generations China's population is going to drop, considering their "one child per household" and favoritism of males; their male population significantly out ways the female population. If they continue to follow these ideals, in time, they'll start having the same issue your country has.
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I wish, but first I'll need to speak their language, hehe. I just hope this message somehow translates to them. I know I'm not the best person to advocate this in a fair country, but these facts compelled me, and I do wish for change.
Yeah, that happening here too! That's been because people are able to live longer too, so, more pensioners. And with people living for longer, that adds to the populative crisis.
It's odd that some countries will multiply like mad and then others will deplete 
No worries, I'm always up for taking corrections.
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The world wouldn't be over populated if everyone had less than two children.
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Certainly. And it's not like the world would deplete in others either. Two children per parents would still mean a steadily expanding population, if my mathematics serve correct.
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The problem with this prediction is that in most developed countries growth rate is low or negative. So when the less developed countries either become more developed or simply run out of room for more people, population will level off. It's therefore impossible for population to reach more than around 9 billion people (I realise you're not really trying to state mathematical facts perfectly, I just thought I'd say...).
That's still a lot.
But if it were possible for population to increase indefinitely, we would run out of resources extremely quickly, and then population would level off anyway because the less well-off people would begin to die; that would be most of the population at that point. So it would be virtually impossible for population to reach 14 billion people.
The sad thing is, we're halfway there.
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Do you think you could suggest some countries that have low/negative growth rates to me? 
With overpopulated places, places with a lower population per square kilometre, such as Australia, become new immigration hotspots. It's been on the news a lot here that densely populated (not to mention, some of them war-stricken) people emigrate to the country to start anew. I do advocate for the well-being of human life, and my nuclear parents are immigrants as well. Can you see where I'm going with this?
Your theory is very undeniable though. I wonder, if we manage to have sustainable living before the 14b, would we still run out of resources? Especially things to make the eco-friendly materials, we could run out of before it's just reduces to metaphorical, useless grey powder.
Really, we've go to take care of the people we have now first. It's like owning 1,000 sheep and you feel you only feed 50 of them.
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Russia, Italy, Germany, France, to name a few.
But much Australia is virtually uninhabitable. So would you suggest that, eventually, all the people in overpopulated countries would move to Antarctica, or onto little boats in the Pacific, since it's so vast? And I see where you're going, and your theory makes as much sense as mine. That's really the only reason the United States is increasing in population: Not many people are domestically born, but thousands upon thousands of people immigrate daily.
There's no such thing as sustainable living. Where will we get the uranium, or plutonium, or hydrogen to power our nuclear plants? Where will we get the silicon for solar cells? Where will we get water for hydroelectricity?
And in reality, only half of those 50 sheep you think you're feeding actually have access to the food.
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Ahh. They're better developed countries, thankfully, so a person in those countries would have a better quality of life - and in turn, the benefit of an increased lifespan. Which could also be part of the overpopulation crisis?
Right, pretty much anything away from the coast is desert, but for some desert towns, it's a haven for any immigrant 
It's once again, a question on my personal moral to think this.. but encouraging more and more people to come to fruitful places can only mean more fruitful families with beliefs that inspire them to have more children. I'd welcome everyone in
Yeah. Sustainable living truly doesn't exist, but I'm not sure of a better name to call it - just stuff that's better to use than coal/oil etc. Anything we can renew rather than expend into the atmosphere forever.
Hah, yeah.. I like to foresee myself volunteering or advocating for campaigns to support sick and starving countries, but how many there are already is overwhelming. And then you think about the 1,000's already who have teamed up to help control this.. and yet massive amounts of people are still brushing across the scene like wildfire, uncared for. But with SO many I just only WISH we could start off with a smaller, manageable amount.
There's too much to think about when you're 16 and don't know which place to start, hehe.
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Actually, people in more developed countries tend to have fewer children and have them later in life, so that would taper growth.
If we could welcome everyone, we would. But then you look at Arizona, and then you see what happens when we welcome too many in (not that I have anything against Mexicans...) and they start to overcrowd the southern border states.
There's no better thing we can call it. The only thing it can be called is impossible. Nothing is really renewable.
No, not half: Only about three or four of those 50 sheep are accepting food.
If only we could take the calories we're giving to the obese Americans and give them to undernourished people, then we'd certainly end world hunger!
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I think it's getting to the point that if people want more and more kids, I think they're just selfish. They don't think about how crowded the world will be and harder for their children and things of that nature.
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Selfish for the money they get for having children or something?
That's right. Really, we need to get this education out there. I made this stamp in hopes that it would spread further than that documentary I watched - and come on, how many people watch documentaries these days? Especially if they're having a busy time making more children!
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Selfish because of the money
selfish because their actions (having more children than they need) will eventually impact on society in a bad way
selfish because the more people having 4 or more kids is just going to make more and more people think about putting a limit on how many kids you're allowed to have
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Yes, yes, and yes. And to imagine the Adoption waiting lists too. I can't believe people still forget this. And if anyone needs that many children to take care of them after retirement, get out of here.
The thing to be wary of the ruling of a limited child policy is when the magical forces of "Children out of Love" and "Don't Suppress Our Beliefs to Support Yours" storms in. Religion and personal values is a tough one to fight.
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not more people! gosh!
the Worldometer site is very frightening!
i reckon that more people should adopt, give those poor kids that then world doesnt care about a happy life, a home. They should let more gay couples adopt
too many people, too many! DX
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Yes!
Why do I KNOW you were going to write about gay couples. As soon as your message came in my inbox!
It's just the parents they're afraid of :/
Yes. Help me save the world Milly
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[link] this is true!XDDD
because you knowes me!<3 ahahah!
yeah, but the parents could still have a friend to be the "opposite gender parent" if possible, there's families with maybe no mother or father figure and its still fine...i dunno..
I do my best..
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god I hope I'm dead before we reach 14 billion D:...I already can't stand the fact that there is as many people as there are now.
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I'd like to be alive for that! More people to dictate
But in all seriousness. I'd certainly would like to advocate for population control. There is so much more statistics to go with this -eg. how much energy we'll need for everyone's homes/appliances etc and whether or not our planet will be able to produce that?..
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I think in 50 years there will be more wars...
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Hehe, there were wars back in the BC's too
No doubt though, yeah. We'd neither other resources like Nuclear to keep us running. And were do we put our waste now that people are living in more and more space?...
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This Worldometers site is frightening.
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