The growth of our human population will eventually end somehow, whether we want it or not. But how will it happen? We can stop growing deliberately, of our own accord. Or we can let circumstances beyond our control stop us under conditions much more distasteful than anything we could decide on our own. Overpopulation concerns are about the welfare of humanity and the health of the planet, our only support system.
Worldwide, approximately two and half million people are born ever week, and humanity's birth rate is 250% of our death rate. The result of this imbalance is that, for the past fifty years, 70-80 million new people have been added to our planet each and every year like clockwork.
One remedy readily appears: humanity should reproduce less. Increasing our death rate is not a humane solution, and unless we lower the number of weekly births it isn't even an effective long term approach either. Those are the kind of problems that indicate a state of overpopulation and that we can and should prevent by simply lowering our birth rate.
The only sustainable population is one where the birth rate is a close match for the death rate, a situation that must persist for generations and generations. Clearly this is not what we have now. Following a small-family norm worldwide, providing contraception to all, along with proper education on its use and benefits should become priorities.
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[–] King_Leopold_II 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
500 people is very much!