So how much longer before we run out of room? (1 Viewer)

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

How long before population becomes an issue and the food supply can't keep up ? In my kids lifetime ? In mine?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Overcrowding and running our of food? Soylent Green kills two birds with one stone.

 

[Eminence]

I don't think this is a real concern, at least in the United States at least. It would take years to fill up Wyoming.

 

[skol asylum]

I think human innovation can stay ahead of this potential problem fairly easily.

 

[Sarnoff]

Norman Bourlaug took care of the big problems. We have plenty of production available, the only issue is distribution.

 

[msommer]

Not any time soon. More pressing concerns, like keeping all of these new people on earth constructively occupied

 

[jon_mx]

We are good. One tip though: Soylent Green =

 

[Henry Ford]

I saw a guy on Shark Tank making protein bars out of crickets. I think we will be okay.

 

[mr roboto]

Distribution is the problem, not total production. Hell, we destroy food here in the US and PAY FARMERS to NOT grow crops.

 

[Fat Nick]

Not any time soon. More pressing concerns, like keeping all of these new people on earth constructively occupied

This. Increased efficiency in the production of most anything typically means more reliance on automation. Machines can do more, faster, longer, with less error. More automation reduces lower end jobs, which makes this problem even more of a concern.

 

[E Street Brat]

Every time I fly cross country, I'm amazed at how much empty land is just sitting there.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Avian flu will eventually solve this problem.

 

[DiStefano]

World population is forecasted to begin to decline in the developed world by 2025, for the first time in history. World population will continue to expand in the developing world, but at a slower and slower rate as more contraception becomes available. At the same time, advances in plant genetics are continuing to increase the availability of food. As others have pointed out, distribution is the problem, not production.

Note: Of course there was a population decline in what is now the developed world, when Europe experienced the Black Death. But it wasn't really the developed world then; the developed world is a creation of the last 150 years or so.

 

[E Street Brat]

The baby killing liberals will never let this happen.

 

[Dentist]

World population is forecasted to begin to decline in the developed world by 2025, for the first time in history. World population will continue to expand in the developing world, but at a slower and slower rate as more contraception becomes available. At the same time, advances in plant genetics are continuing to increase the availability of food. As others have pointed out, distribution is the problem, not production.

This.

I saw the same stat that in 1st world countries if anything we're starting to reproduce at lower than the replenishment rate.

I believe it... although it does seem like the opening scene to "idiocracy" where the highest birth rates tend to be amongst the poorest population and the lowest birth rates tend to be amongst the people that could afford it the easiest...... and really if anything it's due to delayed marriage, desire for a fabulous life in your 20's and not starting kids until your 30's... which then is when all the fertility issues come into play (I wish i could invest in something like: Fertility doctors incomes rising)... and elite families want to send their kids to college and when you see these numbers like it's going to cost 500K to raise a kid through college it makes you not want to do it.. and at the end of the day it's just a lot more fun to spend your money on yourself than on your kids.