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- Lack of breathable air due to trees being cut down and too much carbon dioxide

- Flooding because of melting glaciers due to global warming

- Lack of food

- Lack of fresh water

- An apocalypse (Possibly 2012, although most likely not...there's also asteroids and comets and stuff)

one couple has to have at least two children in order to at least keep a population level. two for the two parents. limiting it to one per mother would cause a dramatic rise in prostitution and human smuggling, and would also, as stated above, would at least cut the world population in half, 1/2 bein that no one died before they had two children.

People are planting trees in place of the trees they cut down, as well as trees in places that didn't even have trees to begin with.

Wouldn't taking longer showers pretty much solve this? I know it goes against every environmental hippie policy, but it's possible that it could work...

Meaning that overpopulation would naturally eliminate itself, correct?

Once the Watercone is somehow able to mass-produce fresh water, that problem will be solved.

You have a lot of compassion, Ernie...

Overpopulation will create the fact that there is no land left to plant trees, or crops on.

Since when did we shower using salt water?

Again, my statement about compassion. It won't lead to any good, anyways. People will fight over the food...which will further eliminate overpopulation...still, not a good way to die.

This is a new one...source?

The water cone is a solar powered desalinization product. Also, we already have desalinization plants in many nations. We have the technology to remove salt from sea water, and over 70% of our planet is sea water. The idea of us running out of water is nil. Also, the process by which water evaporates, is collected in the atmosphere, and releases as rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc, is a natural desalinization and purification process. Fresh water is NOT going to disappear.

Couldn't we just have a cull? Start out with murderers or sex offenders and work our way up to Human Rights activists and politicians.

World issues don't call for compassion, which is why I would be good at solving them, because I have almost none of it.

I think that limiting housing rather than birth is a much easier way of controlling land use. Sure, limiting birth may get the job done, but it has a lot more drawbacks than just limiting the amount of houses in a certain area.

I really don't see why you couldn't. It's not like you drink the water you shower with.

Also, the Watercone...

The water cone is a solar powered desalinization product. Also, we already have desalinization plants in many nations. We have the technology to remove salt from sea water, and over 70% of our planet is sea water. The idea of us running out of water is nil. Also, the process by which water evaporates, is collected in the atmosphere, and releases as rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc, is a natural desalinization and purification process. Fresh water is NOT going to disappear.

How about both?

If you people have such big complaints on this idea...
What do you suggest to stop overpopulation?

Wouldn't taking longer showers pretty much solve this? I know it goes against every environmental hippie policy, but it's possible that it could work...

Fresh water is NOT going to disappear.

I'm not sure how you gather that it's a selfishness in humankind that's to blame for neither being in place. Can you explain it?

Proper sex ed, proper distribution of information. Really, though, third world countries need work on so much more that it's not likely to be improved any time soon. On the other hand, first world countries could just cut the support. A fair amount would probably starve off.

Humankind is screwing itself over and has been well on the way to do that for centuries. I sincerely doubt we'll be able to straighten our behaviour as a species out before it's too late.
If you're so worried about overpopulation, don't have any kids. *shrug*

It IS going to need to be cleansed more and more before we can use it, though.

So everyone is forced to live in crowded conditions like skyscrapers?

No, not really.

Ooh, I've just thought - as the population grows, there is gonna be more carbon released into the atmosphere (more people means more carbon footprints). Anyway, this means that the world will heat up faster and more parts of highly populated LEDC's will become less liveable. In the end, the population will either even out or go down because more people will have died in larger areas than before.

No limit to how tall they are. Just how much ground space they take up.

And not everyone. Only people in the overpopulated countries. That could influence people not to have too many kids without putting any laws against it.

If we showered with salt water (filtered, but not desalted), or with Waterconed water, it could leave room for the glaciers to melt.

Why we need to shower with drinking water is beyond me.

*shudders at Earthquakes*

The glaciers melting itself is not a bad thing...

We should first focus on not flushing toilets with drinking water...

How about an earthquake-safety requirement?

It isn't? Then why are we talking about it...?

How about we focus on both?

No, I cannot. It's just an inner feeling...

We're not doing either, though.

The temptation for most is horrible.
Not for the kid thing itself, but...yeah.

We'll probably find a way.

If we showered with salt water (filtered, but not desalted), or with Waterconed water, it could leave room for the glaciers to melt.

*shudders at Earthquakes*