The world is not yet overpopulated and population will stop growing (eventually)

1) The graph that the Pro has provided only relates to fertility rates of the United States, here is the projected growth rate for the world, The problem here is that falling fertility rates does not mean that populations will shrink,but that population GROWTH will shrink, the world is expected to cross the 7 billion people threshold very soon, and in the near future we will easily cross 8 and then 9 billion. Also, fertility rates are still at an alarmingly high rate despite their decrease, in parts of Africa alone women having 6 or more children is normal, 2) Overpopulation is not a cause of hunger, however overpopulation does exacerbate the effects caused by hunger. If a sudden drought were to suddenly wipe out an entire harvest, then countries that house larger populations would face a more devastating effect due to the famine. Somalia is once again in the midst of a famine, but with a population of 9 million if the same were to happen for say Mali, population 15 million, then overpopulation now only increases the effects of hunger and starvation since the number of people affected by it are greater. 3) The reason China needed a one child policy program in the first place was to forestall the rapid growth of the chinese population following WWII and to ease the burdens that the rapidly increasing country was placing on the economy, environment, and government. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...How can you claim that the world is not yet overpopulated when the largest country in the world already decided it was over populated 40 years ago?4)......... The world will add 2+ billion people in about 40 years and since most of these people will be born in Africa and India the affects of such overpopulation would only become more apparant as the years progress. 5) Through the definition of carrying capacity one would automatically think that the human population would one day "top out" but look through history, man kind has invented countless machines and devices used to obtain more and more food from the same amount of land time and tme again. The invention of the plow, fertilizers, insecticides, genetics, etc have consistantly increased the yield of food that farmers can harness through a fixed amount of land. Mankinds ingenuity will constantly raise the carrying capacity of the human race on Earth and at the current rate of science, we may never come close to such a number. You claim the world will stop growing due to many reasons, but the reasons you provide already have solutions to them. People are becoming far more sanitary and health-orientated, economic growth can be linked in some cases to population growth, we can get more and more out of land and with the invention of the skyscraper we can now exploit land better than ever before, and environmental hazards of population growth are now understood and are being treated by humanity mroe than ever, and will only continue to be the case in the future. 6) You argue that populations might decline even though you quote the UN for saying that it will reach 9 billion by 2040, pick a side already... 7) There isnt any evidence the world is 97% empty, the source you provided just shows the guy saying exactly what you copy pasted. If the world somehow is 97% empty, then humanity is cramming close to 7 billion people onto 3% of the worlds land. Im no statistics expert but if you have 7 billion people crammed into 3% of the worlds land then that could probably be defined as "over populated" compared to the other 97%....8) I agree that only half of the accessible fresh clean water is being used, but since 99.7% of the worlds water is NOT fresh clean water that is easily accessible, then that leaves a considerably smaller proportion of fresh water that can be used for an ever growing population of humans soon to top 7 BILLION people..... and having access to water is one of the issues that can cause over population. if you have 9 billion people living on a desert where fresh water isnt easy to come by, then your going to have some overpopulation problems... As for using just seawater, the cost for chemically altering seawater into clean drinking water to set up the facilities and power them make them only available to very industrious countries, not the poorer countries of Africa that could use these the most. Also, I doubt that nations like Chad, Niger, Mali, Ethiopia, Botswana, and Niger (the country with the highest fertility rate in the world that really needs water) could explot seawater since they dont border the oceans. 9) "So Africa can feed us, food is not a problem." ^ africa ^ usgood luck explaining that one..... considering how Africa cant even feed itself right now.http://www.unicefusa.org...http://www.missionariesofafrica.org...;http://www.thedailybeast.com...http://www.un.org...http://www.independent.co.uk...10) Read your own survey Pro, you seem to have hilariously misread the information on it.This argumetn the Pro found states that if you took the entire world, divided it into families of four and gave them one acre each, then all those people would take up a space of about 80% of the US. however this half baked study doesnt take into account that,1) that not all of the US can be occupied, a good chunk of it such as the mohave desert ot the Rocky Mountains would be impossible to inherit so the amount of land left over would be far smaller.2) If you put these people there then their would be absolutely no space left for growing food, creating jobs, making goods people need, providing services they need, no space for buildings, industries, etc. neded to actually sustain them to live there meaning that the world cpuld live in the US, but not for a long time. and 3) the world doesnt all live in families of fourConclusion:The world is over populated and governments have been realizing this 40 years in the past. The world population is expected to hit 7 billion by the end of this year, 9 billion by 2040, and 10 billion by 2100 implying that if the world does stop growing, its sure as hell wont be anytime soon.....