Overpopulation

When President Kennedy stepped into office in the 1960s there were half as many people on the earth as there are today. In his inaugural speech he stated that poverty and hunger would be ended. It did not happen, and the task has become even harder to accomplish now that the amount of people on this earth has doubled. More and more people are going hungry everyday, more and more people are not having their needs met. To make matters worse the amount of people on this earth is growing and growing as the amount of resources stay the same. In an economy where growth is the measure of success what will happen when people can simply not grow anymore?

In biology there is a number called the carrying capacity. What that means is that for any given species there is a maximum population limit. Once this limit has been reached the population begins to suffer devastating effects. These effects include increased rates of disease, higher predation, starvation, etc. Nothing that the human race would like to be experiencing. However, we have seen over the past few years just that. The rate of starvation is increasing, the number of AIDs cases is increasing, SARs, birdflu, and swineflu have all reached pandemic potential. There is not doubt that nature balances out the population of species, humans however have been fighting nature.

What is needed, and needed fast, is a way to halt and eventually reverse the population of earth. This might seem very very harsh but it is what is needed in order for our species to live in a sustainable manner on this earth.

I would love to hear any thoughts you have about stopping the overpopulation of earth.