THBT humans are not experiencing (nor under threat of) overpopulation

First of all, I would like to sincerely apologise for my lack of attendance thus far, I have been busy, to be honest, I was astonished to even complete this round. I have 4 main points to share and will also add my rebuttal and summary. Opening. THBT humans are not experiencing (nor under threat of) overpopulation I am Con (Against) Thesis: Humans are experiencing and are under threat of overpopulation. Topic 1. Climate Change. My first point is on Climate change. Water levels are rising due to an influx of greenhouse gases that were influenced by mankind as a result of this, coastal lines are being raised and it’s impacting coastal living conditions. Due to there being a large amount of housing and farming near sea level, this will implicate a lot of living arrangements. Unfortunately we will have a smaller area to inhabit, with this sudden restriction, who knows the kind of implications this will cause, especially in the transportation of ships. Another issue Climate Change brings is the heating of oceans. Topic 3 will get into more detail with this. Topic 2. Pollution and Consumption. Pollution is damaging crops; this creates a problem with consumption rates, inevitably, people will need more crops to sustain themselves. People are also becoming increasingly overweight, studies show that since the 1980’s, obesity rates have tripled and are continuing in children within western cultures, this is due to increased junk food as well as sugars and oils, and processed foods. Essentially, we are overpopulating our planet with people with a burden of gluttony that is never satisfied with food which will only partially quench the bodies’ intake of essential vitamins and nutrients. The way we are headed, the only way out is no food. The other problem facing Earth is that food is becoming cheaper than ever before; with this rate, food is easily accessible with people buying much more than is necessary. Today’s western cultures are literally throwing food away, although it could be worse, they could be throwing it into the bin… instead they’re putting it into a vat known as a stomach that will only lead to needing even more, I am not disputing the need to eat, however obesity is no counter measure. Over population is occurring, the population is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050. Food is becoming less resilient because of pesticides and more people are going hungry in 3rd world countries. However, a lot of the countries encompassing Europe is attempting to help out 3rd world countries in need, so far they have reduced the hunger problem by 10%; unfortunately though, 550 billion litres of fresh water is wasted per year in agriculture. We are setting ourselves up for an overpopulated world that’s lacking nutrients. Topic 3. Ecosystems and filters. Animals are going extinct at an incredibly fast rate; some scientists refer to us as the ‘sixth mass extinction’. A total number of known species that have directly gone extinct through human efforts has been 905, most occurring during the 1900’s, a great time of ignorance several different plants have also gone extinct. At this rate, we are going to kill off a large population of our ecosystems, throwing the life cycle out of balance and creating large imbalances that will end up destroying whatever system is in place at the moment. Coral bleaching becomes a problem when over fishing takes place; the starfish that kill the coral will be abundant in the near future due to reefs being emptier as well as the effects of Climate Change. Coral tends to live in an average depth that doesn’t change much in temperature, with these rising and hotter waters, Coral is just going to become extinct. Deforestation is yet another problem we are facing, with a terrible amount of forest being destroyed each year, we are running out of natural filters and habitat for animals to flourish in. With the lack of natural filters in place, there is no normal way to combat the effects of Climate Change, this will lead in a faster route of imbalance within ecosystems, completely wiping most food off the map. Topic 4. Overpopulation on a smaller scale. The last topic I want to bring up is that overpopulation can be city wide or country wide, we can have a lot of people in a single area and the rest of the world could be lush and free, what really determines overpopulation? Is it the global crisis that everyone is in danger of death due to the limitations of the earth? Or is it the limitations of the community in general? I could give examples of china and japan having overpopulation problems, and simply use the smog as an example, people wearing surgical masks in public to avoid the consumption of toxic chemicals, people wearing long clothes so they are not intoxicated by the gases. The acid rain and dying out of populations of animals. We have the panda bear as an example of this. Rebuttal. An issue I have with your graph is, we are still growing in population, regardless of how many children people are having in today’s generation, simply because the world is growing shows the graph to be intellectually dishonest in terms of accuracy with population sizes. The truth is, we have so many people that if every woman was to give birth to only one child, we would probably see an increase in population before it dropped off. Summary. In summary so far, we have established the resources are depleting, that climate change is an issue that is currently affecting us and will continue to only with greater affects in the near future. We have also established that mankind’s destruction on the reefs with overfishing is leading to an increased death rate of corals by the imbalance of the ecosystem allowing species classed as pests to roam freely and corrupt the environment, this will also cause a massive death rate of phytoplankton, which is most of our oxygen resource. The other issue mankind faces is deforestation, the process of burning, cutting or poisoning trees which is destroying some of the last remaining habitat for our now ever receding amount of species. And finally, we have also established the sea levels rising and human population growing, as well as a lack of nutrients in the food supply and currently an overeating epidemic in western countries. Final statements. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time I had to write up this argument, and being incredibly tired, I did not have time to reference properly, however, the sources are in order from topic 1 through to topic 4. I would like to class myself as an intellectually honest person; feel free to go through them, if you have any issues, please address it and I will adhere to it. Thank you. ~Kryptic. Sources. http://link.springer.com... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov... http://search.proquest.com.elibrary.jcu.edu.au... http://www.cabdirect.org... http://authoritynutrition.com... http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org... http://environment.nationalgeographic.com.au... https://uosm2018.wordpress.com... http://www.edu.pe.ca... http://www.codewit.com... http://www.bbc.com... http://science.howstuffworks.com... http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au... http://overfishing.org...