The Science of Overpopulation
Hank talks about the issues of rising global population. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: http://dft.ba/-25aG
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Well, why cant people not have only one kid? Does the world mean nothing to them? If people have one kid at an age no younger than 30, this will cause the population to decrease by 12% every 85 years. But right now the world population is going up 1500 every 10 minutes....kiss our planet good bye, all nice places will be destroyed...
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I am getting some error posting my reply to somebody, so here is what I had written.
But having a naturally large family, and taking responsibility for
that family, counts as self-control, because there is no moral mandate
to restrain the natural growth of families. Also, it has long been the
normal belief, that all people in the world, have the natural or
God-given right to enjoy having practically unlimited children, thus
they would obviously have the option to decline to use any method of
birth control. Even on some ridiculous pagan-secular population website,
when I selected that I wanted to have 15 children, the maximum that the
selector would allow, it recommended that I should not use any method
of birth control. In an old book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, in the topic about overpopulation, it
said something about the fast-growing world population, and the trendy
concerns about it, and that quite many people have objections to birth
control, thus there appears to be no solution. Only decades ago, it was
quite accepted, that family size was largely an individual choice, and
that society could not impose restraints against people's natural or
reasoned preferences for having more children. There wasn't as much this
communist control-everybody mentality like there is now. Until a half
century ago, letting families grow naturally, was the norm and the
natural and reasonable expectation. And obviously, people who have 4 or 5
children, probably would disagree with your claim that 3 children is
enough. A friend confided to me, that they had decided to try for a 5th
child. I don't recall him giving me a reason for this decision. Perhaps
they wanted more children, or perhaps birth control was too much of a
pain anyway?
The planet is far bigger than a car, so how many clowns we can stuff into a car, is pretty much irrelevant.
Your
spelling mistake, within just a few sentences, suggest that you have
weak vocabulary. And it did not appear to be a typo. Normally I ignore
spelling mistakes, or if I have occasion to use the same word, I will be
sure to use the correct spelling in my reply. But weak vocabulary plus
weak and sloppy logic, might make for a notable pattern of intellectual
sloppiness? If you want to get hired for the job, it does tend to help,
to avoid spelling or other errors in your resume or job application.
Why
is the biblical account of wo-man being made from man, hard to believe?
Even the genetic evidence suggests this, as men have both X and Y
chromosomes, whereas women have only X. So where would the Y come from,
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This guy lives in MONTANA
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After I calculated mathematically, in 2050 the population would be 21.9B , because every day 200000 children safely born. I want World war 3 to start now.
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Why can't government donated comdoms and pregnancy pills to poor country help familys from poor country not to have too many children have less children have one or two children
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The whole world would have looked nice like Hawaii if the dam selfish, ignorant people would have not brought so many kids into world and destroyed it. So many beautiful places are gone, destroyed turned into toilet, meaning more houses, more farms, more factories, etc. More and more growth will eventually kill everything on this planet, get ready for a good future because of you people. Not me, but all because of you all.
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there is no science of overpopulation. God said to procreate and conquer the earth. devil and his pawns try to mock God and reverse everything He says.
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took those balls to the face like a champ
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BOYS, stop proposing to ur queens 👸🏼💁🏼
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The world fertility rate as of today is 2.3 children per woman and the population will peak at 10 billion in the year 2067.
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8:50 Arab spring turned out to be an arab winter.
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blah blah blah. stick your tongue in my ass.
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who iz zis americaners?
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well, there always the shadow children series route. It's a book series where parents couldn't have more than 2 kids. I guess this would work.
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Also, 1/3 of food in developed countries is never even eaten....sooo yeah.
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SO WHAT'S YOUR POINT? WHO IS GOING TO DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES? THE MODERN HITLER'S? THE NWO? THE ELITE? WHO IS GOING TO DIE? MINORITIES? LOW INCOME PEOPLE? THE ELDERLY? THE SICK? NONSENSE YOUR STUPID VIDEO
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Seriously guys, the earth alone can probably suit many times the current population. What we need is to use lands that are abandoned like Greenland, Tundras, Desserts, Antarctica etc. Organise our agriculture vertically and use some technological advances, to extract resources from asteroids. The "Space" on earth, can clearly keep Trillions. Go Vertically, Go Innovative, Go Smart and Go in Peace, then this is a done deal. And besides of this, more wealth will be created, more customers, more demand. More ideas can be thought, more innovation can happen, more lives, more stories. Life is there to infect the universe with itself, and if im not mistaken, then life, intelligence, is the most valuable and precious matter in the universe.
And Btw. why don't we use the Oceans for our needs? I mean only from the surface area, the amounts of innovative systems they can hold, is mind blowing. There is a bright future. For a ten times bigger population, a 100 times bigger population and even for a 1000 times bigger population. -
We need to build a wall and secure our boarders from all these mud people popping out babies like a tshirt cannon at a sporting event.
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muslim have up to four wives beat them and rae them non stop, and have anywhere from 20-50 kids in their lifetime. They produce so many young men, they flood into other nations to kill the innocent loving people who offer them help, and rape their women to death. We need to kil all muslims to save the world.
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ah well...
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