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

C1: fertility rates have been dropping since 1060 http://www.google.com... This graph shows that there was a huge down in fertility rates, showing that population growth is slow. And in 2009 it began a small decrease again. Global fertility rates are in general decline and this trend is most pronounced in industrialized countries, especially Western Europe, where populations are projected to decline dramatically over the next 50 years. [2] The CIA agrees with me, populations will decline. C2: food and poverty are not related to overpopulation (as of now) Among the key causes of hunger are natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment. Recently, financial and economic crises have pushed more people into hunger. [2] They do not list overpopulation a problem. Trinidad and Tobago show the lowest percentage of stunted children under five and Guatemala the highest (almost twelve times greater); yet Trinidad and Tobago's cropland per person-a key indicator of human population density-is less than half that of Guatemala's. [3] This indicates that a dense possibly overcrowded community has less hunger, ruling out the possibility of overpopulation and hunger. How does one determine when a nation is overpopulated? There are no clear demographic indicators for this fuzzy notion. If population density is used as the criterion, then Bermuda and Monaco would be crisis zones, while Nigeria and Ethiopia should be paradise. [4] So if we use population density (which is what overpopulation supporters use) then those places would be Heaven and hell. But the less dense underpopulated areas are war zones. And are starving, the "overpopulated" countries are really good and most people are not hungry. C3: China's one child policy According to the CIA world factbook you need 2 kids per mom to keep populations the same and 2.1 to grow. The 2.1 is factoring in the baby mortality rate. So in all reality you need 3 kids per mom. The one-child policy has been spectacularly successful in reducing population growth, particularly in the cities (reliable figures are harder to come by in the countryside). [5] One Chinese official said the one-child policy has prevented 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of Europe. [5] So their population control works which has helped stabilize growth. C4: UN predictions According to the United Nations, the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050 — an increase of about 50% from current levels. [6] C5: population will stop growing Despite a growth burst that more than doubled the global human population over the past 50 years, a study released today predicts it will peak at 9 billion by the year 2070 and then begin to decline. [7] "People thought for many years that we would breed ourselves out of existence," says Warren Sanderson, a professor of economics and history at State University of New York at Stonybrook and co-author of the study appearing in this week's Nature. "They thought we'd produce so many children, there would be no standing room left on the planet. But now it seems our population will peak. [7] In the future, world population has been expected to reach a peak of growth, from there it will decline due to economic reasons, health concerns, land exhaustion and environmental hazards. According to one report, it is very likely that the world's population will stop growing before the end of the 21st century. [8] "There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The planet's population will most likely continue to climb until 2050, when it will peak at 9 billion; other predictions have the world's population peaking at 7.5 billion in 2040. In either case, it will then go into a sharp decline. The world may soon be facing an under-population crisis -- a prospect that has all but escaped media scrutiny." -- Anthony C. LoBaido [10] C6: population may even decline Further, there is some likelihood that population will actually decline before 2100. [8] Population has already declined in the last decade or two in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and in the Commonwealth of Independent States. [8] Ben Wattenberg says UN demographers have finally accepted the extent of declining birth rates. Now, in a new report, United Nations demographers have bowed to reality and changed this standard 2.1 assumption. For the last five years they have been examining one of the most momentous trends in world history: the startling decline in fertility rates over the last several decades. In the United Nations' most recent population report, the fertility rate is assumed to be 1.85, not 2.1. This will lead, later in this century, to global population decline. [9] C7: most of the world is empty "The world is NOT over-populated. More than 97% of the land surface on Earth is empty.... Yes, certain cities are over-populated, of course. Yet the entire population of the world could fit inside the state of Arkansas. So, then, how is the world 'over-populated'? Europe and Japan will be facing under-population crises in the coming decades, even according to UN studies on population." -- Anthony C. LoBaido [10] C8: water we use more than half of the accessible surface fresh water [11] So about half of the fresh water supply is being used. But you can always use sea water. we use 8% of the primary productivity of the oceans (25% for upwelling areas and 35% for temperate continental shelf areas). [11] So we still have access to 92% of ocean water (which can be purified to fresh after, ex Iran) C9: food production In fact, in 1994, the United Nations Population Fund acknowledged that the world can feed itself in its report that concluded that "[food] production should be sufficient to meet all needs for the foreseeable future..." [12] "Africa is the least populated of all the continents and has the ability to feed the entire world two times over...The good news for the people of Africa is that they need not suffer in poverty any longer. The solution is simple: free the people to produce; allow the people to keep what they produce; and the people will produce." [13] So Africa can feed us, food is not a problem. C10: you can fit the world in all of these places Oregon (97,132 sq mi) New York (53,989 sq mi) Colorado (104,100 sq mi) Minnesota (86,943 sq mi) Florida (59,928 sq mi) Missouri (69,709 sq mi) Wyoming (97,818 sq mi) Rhode Island (1,231 sq mi) [14] Yeah if we can fit everyone into Rhode island we are ok. ==conclusion== The world is not overpopulated currently, population growth will stop, and our amount of people are sustainable. Vote PRO! Thank you. ==sources== https://www.cia.gov... [1] http://www.wfp.org... [2] http://www.globalissues.org... [3] http://www.jefflindsay.com... [4] http://factsanddetails.com... [5] http://www.theglobalist.com... [6] http://abcnews.go.com... [7] http://en.wikipedia.org... [8] http://www.futurepundit.com... [9] http://www.juntosociety.com... [10] http://www.dbc.uci.edu... [11] Sunday Times Business Times, "Too many people, so few resources", by Bronwen Maddox. 28 August 1994, p5 [12] Ibid, p70 [13] http://www.firstgen.org... [14]