Is overpopulation really a problem for the planet? 

That's so true and wise thank you for the qoute

I don’t know when it was that he said that but the population was at a specific value. At that point the statement was true. Double or triple that value would the statement still be true? However you look at it there is a maximum number of people the planet can support. The more people there are the more limited each one’s life experience will be.

In an ideal world, but not this world.

@@lazybastard6004 I concur in regards to co2 levels. Regional overpopulation is an entirely different subject. All of the data you just listed has little immediate effect on areas of the world that have intensely over- populated areas. Eating or not eating , not global warming, would be the main concern of hundreds of millions of people. And if populations continue to increase in these areas at the same rate, in fact if populations don't come down in these areas, as they are already unsustainable, many millions will die of starvation. All politics aside. Lack of food will be your demise long before global warming. Cultural change will be inevitable, if a balance can ever be realized. No hate. Just do the math.

Pretty glib and not helpful

You have a valid point, but I read an article once that indicated that, change is inevitable; either we adapt or die.

good point but let's not forget the suits are greedy scum and they are looking for ways to cut payroll and get more work out of their slaves.

That's automation. Over population would be not enough resources for the people.

Overpopulation is a result of capitalism then.

This comment is more proof we are overpopulated. If there are 100 people standing for one job and there are millions of people, unemployed and everywhere you go for a good paying job, nothing is hiring and when you go to a standard job like a grocery store, you have to compete with other people just to get your foot in the door, I remember in the city of Boston alone I handed in my résumé to be a bartender in 30 different bars in the city and I had experience in Miami Beach went to bartending school and did a catering for weddings and I got rejected everywhere and the market is way over saturated with bartenders. Everywhere you go you will see 10 people handing in their resumes including me then they are interviewing seven people And it’s like a lottery winner on who gets the job even if you are experienced and well qualified you will still have a hard time getting your foot in the door and when you do get your foot in the door, they will train you piss, poor and let you go within a week and replace you the next day and that’s because there are so many bartenders not only is the market oversaturated, but it’s overpopulated

Yes, thats big problem. Unconscious parents having children that they dont see as individuals and treat like extensions of themselves. If people realize how much a child actually needs love, attention, and resources to grow up and be healthy individual, most people would not have children. But most people doesnt think about this. Then end up with few children and treat them poorly. And another generation do the same...

developing nations have the most children and have a high population leading to higher birth rates

No we will not. Let's not be selfish and not impose a low-quality life on another person. I will happily accept being called a weirdo rather than bringing another life to live the same pointless life.

@@abhisheksing8379 your not the only one that thinks this even at work alot of men are having vasectomy. Most people that breed are the uneducated

Abhis, reread Dr. Curiouss. He's agreeing with you, trying to enumerate a point, to explain the breeders' mentality.

Yeah, intermit fast too.

Even earlier, people were suffering famines, more so.

The amount of food wasted by the first class can be used to feed those 2 billion

@@cantthinkofaname632 The "first class" makes 90% of all the food

​@@cantthinkofaname632 Not really. You can say that the "first class" (middle class for that matter) wastes a lot of food (I agree with that), but the real problem is that the "food factory" is built around certain areas and logistics (not to mention the money that companies and countries dont want to spend to feed other nations). And like I said, the "feeding" isnt the only problem. The real problem is the harm that we are doing to the planet by feeding to many people. And dont think for a second, that if the "lower class" had more purchasing power that they wouldn't consume the same as the other developed countries (by the way I dont really like this class stuff, its just a metaphor for "how many dollars do you have")

Thats IT

i too think this video is more about pointing fingers than anything else. everone already know the percapita polution of europe or america is way more than the rest. but we are never going to get anywhere pointing finger. and as the biggest nations have the most to contribute i think its unwise to sour any efforts. europe and the us have the means while the rest need to too. this is absoutly the wrong time to fan the flames of tribalism and play the blame game. i do admit, india in particular has a bad rep for population. but the argument, your 1 million take up as much space as our 1 billion, there for we are fine and even, is no excuse if in the end the absolute need to be reduced. and in india too. they might all be dirt poor now, but if you at all value human life and strive to better their situation, that argumet is utterly muted.

The biodiversity has taken a massive hit because of humans which does make an impact on flora and fauna.

@@splintmeow4723 huh. biodiv went down which affects.. what were trying to say. one is implied , actualy a absolute must of the first. i pumped my tire and it affected the tires air pressure..... huh what?

@@Pssst.ByTheWay so let’s say insect B has been wiped out. Plant C can’t be properly pollinated due to lack of pollinator insect B. At the same time Plant C is getting eaten by invasive insect species D. Reptile E would be a nature predator to insect D, however human has seen this as a pest animal and are killing them. Plant C will now die which was a low ground cover plant that would help Plant F grow. Plant F can’t grow in abundance now since Plant C is on the decline.

DW is fu*king biased ... Ignore it ...

or a fact which was not know?

I totally agree! This vid was terrible!!

😂 says a person choking rivers with tones of waste generated in their backyard, did you have your instant packaged food today?

@@Kathakathan11 as it should be

Thanks for stating the truth. We must all be careful about believing videos, news programs, newspapers, magazines, etc. Countries, governments, businesses, militaries, religions, and media lie, exaggerate, and deceive the public to make themselves look good and advance their agendas.

@毅苏冯 You are wrong, our planet can sustain this much life. By using basic economic principles, if earths population goes up, and food production stagnates, then food prices will rise due to increased demand. People will notice this, and start giving birth to less babies because they cannot afford them. Eventually, we will hit a stable population.

We never be the top emitter by Emissions per head.

If all 1.4 billion INdians stay at home and dont drive, heat, cool, consume, fly no one has a problem with it.

So usa and india both consume so much? The number is different tho. Usa citizen consume multiple in a day compared to other citizen around world, thats facts.

@Myra Bae true... along with food shelter etc every human needs space too...

@Myra Bae with that much people in neighborhood even nature cant play with nature ...

Where do you live?

@@joyanimation5579 Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰

@@WaqarAli-vn1zy pls think of the right of forests, rivers, plants and planet earth to live and don't have more than one child.

That's just one reason why I refuse to marry & have kids of my own.

And when the music stops, Humans will complain, bitterly, "It's not fair!"

True

The west always want to be the leader, why not start first.

Lol

Fine by me, I didnt cause it and im still pretty quick to fnd a seat.

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We need a reeaaally big war

Start with yourself. If its that bad, why are governments rewarding parents on every child birth?

@@stephenwilson4931 cause they make more money out of it....

Subnegro, cogent point. You are too hip for this room. Thank you.

Coronavirus has killed 1.5 million people to date, there's an estimated 385,000 babies born a day. Excluding the value of individual life, purely numbers, it would take 4 days to get that amount of people back.

Even coronavirus can’t stop the overgrowth of the population. Birth rate is higher than mortality rate.

@Clayton Shearer lol stop watching rubbish on youtube ... covid-19 was dangerous because it could trigger immune system to go berserk damaging ur bodies that need to fight for another infection later on

I wouldn’t be surprised if Coronavirus causes another baby boom because everyone’s stuck at home banging like crazy.

@Shivansh oh they know it isn’t enough wait until they put the kill off strain in the world, and wipe 75% of the population like the Bible said.

Its probably easier to improve our farms rather than stopping population growth.

@@5astelija75 are you a farmer?

@@Jake-zk3eb Obviously with his statement, he is not. But as we know, it's becoming increasingly desperate in many regions.

@@Jake-zk3eb Considering hydroponics and vertical farming are about to really take off this isn't exactly true. If we reduced food waste then much of these problems would be eliminated without these technologies, though of course that's far easier said than done. However with the move towards less poluting energy sources, and increasingly strict farming regulations, we should have no problem feeding people provided people stop hoarding wealth.

@@ZeldaKid5000 "hoarding wealth" is a double negative and an oxymoron

Check out the series "The Last Man on Earth" .

So Thanos was right the whole time!

@@DannyHuanDao thanos and ultron were always right

except by looking at thanos's power he could do better than snapping half of population, he could have went on the unlimited resources path, sparing him the gamble of demographics, except if the snap is discriminatory

Bingo.

You're taking about a developed nations with no problem of population or economic growth. Most so called overpopulation targeted by the UN and rich nations are the third world nations, to where they do not have a system of government like the developed nations has or have.

@@gearzone2611 No. the "developed nations" could not live without cheap imports from "poor countries" for long

@@fellinuxvi3541 us is a 3rd world country with first world military

@@masterpalladin I guess

We need many population in order to defeat them

Correct

Cringe

@@Wilhelmofdeseret Yup, you.

I did not bring any children to this world, i already have 50. My Job is done thank you everybody.

Lol, instead of having a kid of your own some guy in India just had 12. Your contribution is null and publicly promoting a personal life style choice does nothing as well.

@@Nope_handlesaretrash bruh

Good question. 👍

No one has ever answered the question

Below a billion for sure

@@suryanshusingh8863 so how are the rest 6 billion people living on the earth now?

@@gigillik Modern Western comfort level not sustainable level. If we consider sustainable level then earth can hold more than 10 billion people

Problem is everybody wants what you have and then it's gone... I live in what used to be a small town near a lake and now its overdeveloped crowded crap. People that lived in the country now back onto packed subdivisions 😵... Everyone has 2 or 3 cars and most cars hit the highways at the same time - it's a mess. Wildlife is in deep shit....

Nature is beautiful and we need it but unfortunately, some humans love destroying it which is sad and bad for everyone's health. We also have a city lights pollution problem for many nocturnal species.

Then those two children grow up and each one has two more children and so on.

CO2 at 0.04% is a 2,500th of the atmosphere. That means to warm the climate by just 1"C carbon dioxide molecules must capture 2500"C of heat energy. That is bonkers. It also breaks all the laws of thermodynamics. Methane at 0.00017% is a 600,000th of the atmosphere so it's even more bonkers. However, the climate is changing. This is because of deliberate geoengineering programmes, in particular ozone thinning away from the poles. Though largely unreported ozone thinning effect is directly observable, this summer you can see a unnaturally bright sun just as we did last year. Under these conditions the pain felt when looking at the sun is not only from the increase in visible light but the much larger increase in infrared. (Look up at the sky and you will see a range of geoengineering operations in progress, these include chemtrail induced cloud or hazing, ripple patterns caused by HAARP installations, bizarre and unnatural cloud formations). Climate change is a programme to force change in accordance with the implementation of Agenda 21 /2030. Current events demonstrate this transition is well underway and will involve massive population cull through injected nanotech (re transhumanist programme). Agenda 21 also sees the permanent loss of all property rights with the introduction of universal basic income (ref NESARA/GESARA) and has/is being promoted by The World Economic Forum. 'You will own nothing and you will be happy' WEF In a depopulated world the surviving brainwashed and controlled population will be confined to mega cities. Carbon limits will be used to restrict consumption and liberty. Meanwhile the re-greened wilderness will be the exclusive playground of the ultra rich elite posing as conservationists. The CO2 hoax amounts to the theft of the world and the enslavement of humanity by a parasitic few. Welcome to the future! _________ I have included a debunking of 'accumulated heat' as it is so often used to explain how trace elements, so called 'greenhouse gasses', can warm the planet. Accumulated heat whilst sounding a reasonable explanation of how heat can build up is rather nothing more than gobbledygook. In fact it shows those using such arguments do not even understand what heat is. When we measure temperature we are measuring the heat energy a thing is losing. In short heat is a measurement of flow, the transfer of heat energy and this will always be in the direction towards the colder. For this reason a thing can never 'accumulate heat' in the way those advocating CO2 climate change describe. The temperature of a body is the measure of heat output, it can never be greater than the measure of heat input. Output = input. When a thing is warmed it is heated to an equivalent of the heat input. If this input is not maintained it will cool. Those that propose that heat can build up to be hotter than the total measure of heat input at a given time either do not understand what heat is or are being deliberately misleading. To illustrate, an object being heated by a flame can never become hotter than that flame, it's temperature cannot rise inexorably to the temperature of the sun for instance. Heat cannot be accumulated. When we think about it common sense tells us this must be the case. NASA and even Nobel Prize winning physicists have expounded 'accumulated heat' as the explanation how CO2 is able to warm the atmosphere. They claim that over hundreds of years CO2 has captured heat energy and this heat has 'accumulated' to produce a serious warming effect. As I have just explained, this is totally impossible and fundamentally violates all the laws of thermodynamics. That respected scientists should support such uneducated, unthinking nonsense is disturbing and only reflects that in terms of being able to think clearly about a subject they have no facility or inclination. These are the Dark Ages of science. Belief has outweighed logic or any critical thought. It tells us that we should not unquestioningly accept anything we are told, that experts can be fools. (NB: be aware of attempts to discard thermodynamics by talking about biology. Eg. 'It only takes a drop of arsenic to kill a person.' This would be somewhat desperate, muddled thinking. Clearly biological processes based on the reaction of a cell are not the same as the laws of physics/thermodynamics).

@@doobidoo095 You are a kook!

There is need for a man like thanos who can execute people without mercy.

@@ashwanikumar-gv6ir first you

How about stop having kids, that makes sure it doesn't get worse than it already is

@@ayushsharma8804 yes, we should ban having kids for next 20 years.

@@ashwanikumar-gv6ir imagine

If we all don't consume anything we can fit even more people on the planet! Lets do that.

@@distrologic2925 why we need more people?

How

@@redgenaldjob9113 education, loop economy, better quality products.

Automation, unemployment and inflation will fix that.

Women should definitely not be pressured into being mothers! If the childfree pay for children that are not theirs via taxes e.g. it's because those children will pay their future pension and people who have children have much higher costs. So, some children will have to be raised...

I think the pressure is already on for women to become mothers in light of the whole coronavirus situation. The global death toll has now reached 2 million and people don't want to "socially distance" themselves from each other anymore.

You’d be surprised about how much women want to have children. It’s simply in there DNA of course there will be outliers but on average if you don’t have a kid by the age of 30 a female will start to produce even more chemicals and hormones to make you want to be pregnant and to have children. However this doesn’t mean that as a female you should be forced to have children. It’s a human right to choose wether to have children or not. Both for men and women.

Yes! Brilliant ! Thank you.

@@loudboy317 we have too many people

Why do you think the virus come out?

They basically said, you'll have to become poor, like in 3rd world countries, so you can't consume in vasts amounts anymore, and then earths population can grow even further without issues... what a moron report... What about reducing the population everywhere in the same degree first, make the world more sustainable everywhere, and when the world recovers and technology is clean, increase the numbers?

@@Biegzie yeah this was a extremely stupid video. The video says that overpopulation and poverty isn't the problem but solution. Since the developer countries don't have population boom this consumes more that is what the real problem. So the solution is the west should increase population and poverty to reduce per capita carbon emissions etc.🤦🏽‍♂️

@@bulu9214 My country started to promote you have to be have minimum 3 children and they pay a lots of money, if you have. They says our nation is less and less and we will be disappear soon etc. So, now people started to get insane and want more children, because no good reason, mostly for money. And I agree this is the stupidest video the DW ever made.

@@bloggerblogg5878 really countries promote population growth? What country are you from ? Hungry? I have heard Hungary or Austria do this .

Well then people will come out and w8ll say it's against minorities.

@@ChiefJoey5971 exactly

A child limit can work if it's not insanely enforced like it was in China, which had two ramifications: If a pregnancy happened in excess to the over limit child they'd basically blacklist that person from society which is jacked up and also the mass abortion of girls has lead to an insane gender skew there (probably why they're so eager to go to war and offload a lot of those men). The way to do it is incentivization: Offer tax breaks and benefits for those who stay under the limits.

I advocate a minimum two child policy to keep the population stable or grow.

Even 2 child policy could have growth as you need 2 deaths to each birth

I agree. Everyone needs, no everyone _deserves_ things like good ( meaning durable )clothes. Everyone deserves a warm house/flat with, let's say, 50m2 per individual, clean water, electricity, the ability to access medicine and even things like internet access etc. - even the ability to travel. And not only that - everyone deserves to try to improve society. We should not limit ourselves to an imaginary ideal just because that's the contemporary way we can have the most people on the planet without collapsing into wars etc.

🙏🏿

Are the other 2 billion people supposed to just disappear?? 💀

@@lbarlow42 No definitely not. I just think that all possible measures that stop BIG population growth should be taken. (contraception, education etc...)

By 2050 our planet could be dead due to global plastic and carbon waste. Sterilise humanity and save the rest of the life on this planet.

@@connorsimmonds9698 lol i bet some time people are gonna start suggesting mass killings (Thanos style)

@Kinky Winky I was hardly suggesting using force to achieve these goals. Better education, health,and access to contraception (which all can be supplied from the "first world") automatically decreases the number of children people are going to have. Not helping in this manner would seem rather reckless to me, and devastating for the "third world" in the long run.

How old are ya?

Why is being on birth control making her a “polluted women.” If she doesn’t want children that’s her choice

@Weasel Can't Swim Are you a drunken fool?

@kabir singh then breed so much that you end up pushing covid dead bodies on a handcart.

My wife decided to have zero children before we married. We couldn't be happier.

I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where there are no more elephants, rhinos, tigers, and orangutans. It makes Earth - the only place in the known universe where such life exists - a less interesting & colorful place to live.

@@PedroOrtega1993 your right 😀

@@AnkushKumar-cu1tu What about his right? Right to do what?

@Mr Mistah repeat

Satanist mindset be like

He's wrong though. Resources are not a zero sum game. Increased population leads to more heads to innovate. Innovation leads to greater efficiency and productivity in finding and extracting resources. And besides, population growth do not increase forever. It tapers out as a country develops. A lot of developed countries have birth rates just above replenishment. Some countries like Japan actually have negative birth rate.

@AutoFuturo Thank you 👍. That's because people want to keep the confort they are used to, and are lazy. Because reducing population is the laziest way to deal with it.

@Mr X I love Voltaire's quotes especially "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". And he was absolutely right about it when it comes conspiracy theories and autocrats

May the Great Filter decide upon our fate

Well if you think humans is the problem, you can suicide any day you want.

But they didn't have technology. If the dinosaurs had a space program, they would've been able to deflect the asteroid that killed them

@@jackprescott9652 I don't think it, I know it... if you think suicide is the answer then after you...

@@walleyperch you´re the one blaming humans not me. You do it.

Dancing 💃💃💃💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

This is the most nonsensical video, it’s such a simple answer. I think this video was made by an absolute fool. “Easy to blame problem of over population” then she points to waste. The amount of population is the reason there is so much waste. Also clearing for agricultural land and natural resource destruction.

@@splintmeow4723 Yes, it is not only nonsensial but also very dangerous! Overpopulation is the elephant in the room! It's the root cause of all environmental problems. To lower consumption is of course good thing but it won't solve everything . Compare the standards of living in low populated countries like Norway, Ireland or Canada with overpopulated like Bangladesh or Nigeria ! Creators of this video must have been on drugs. 👎👎👎

@@jirislavicek9954 I mean it is blatant logic, I don’t know what they are smoking. 😑 didn’t the Renaissance come after the Black Plague?

@@splintmeow4723 There are 3 natural ways of reducing a population. Human or animal as well. One of the three inevitably comes when the population reaches or exceeds the capacity of the environment. They are described as FAMINE, PLAGUE AND WAR. = starvation, diseases and intraspecific competition in ecological terms. People are the only mammals (as far as I know) who are able to plan and reduce their birth rate = use contraception, family planning etc. That is the fourth option we have, and the only one that allows us to avoid the previous three (which are of course undesired in modern society). People are also able to increase the capacity (modern agriculture) or decrease the risk of the 3 factors (agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement) but only up to a certain level. The main principle remains unchanged. This video basically doesn't acknowledge that the world has a limited capacity. Instead it adds CO2 and refrigerants into the mix completely out of context 🙈.

It does not matter, many developing countries are growing at a rate that is absolutely unsustainable in the long run. Indonesia is litterally sinking into the sea yet they've got a larger population than France and Germany combined.

Sorry, make that France, Germany and England combined.

​@Spell Check 1.1 percent, which is a number that is likely underreporting the actual growth, is a significant number for a country that is already overpopulated. Also, I feel that you misunderstand the point that I am trying to make. It is entirely reasonable to levy criticism at the western world for the lavish lifestyles and irresponsible production practices that has placed us in our current predicament but that does not subtract from the very real and unsustainable population expansion that is taking place in developing countries. We can take just about any measures available to us to halt the oncoming climate crisis but if Africa is the most populous continent in 2050 we're still doomed. Only by working at the problem from every angle will we be able of reaching an beneficial result for the planet and this includes halting the uncontrolled population increase in Asia and Africa.

@Spell Check They are sinking because they are drawing too much water from the bedrock. As the water is removed and not replaced, the land sinks. That's true specially for Jacarta. Also the labour laws (or lack of them) are completely in competence of Indonesian government. I would absolutely love if all the outsourced manufacturing would return back to US, Europe...

That's why countries like SA and UAE are buying lands with water resources in African countries and in places they can't buy directly (like California which is ironic because they are in very need of water), they are financing companies that will export water intensive crops to them. China is also water unsafe and they caught on that and doing the same. India will be water unsafe too and they are starting to caught on, but it will be war over Tibet. However, don't think they are the only "villains". They are doing what they can to safeguard their own national interests at expenses of others like every other power. Billionaires and corporations are buying water rich lands quietly as well.

@@ddwkc True, but what happens when for example, people that don't have the resources to buy water and neither do their countries (Iraq, Libya, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria...) Will they migrate? Millions of completely different people moving to places with more water, Europe. And even the EU countries are quite literally 'feeling the heat'

@@nexus5242 The smart people will move to where there is water available. The others will die.

@@seth_5394 There wont be enough water for all...

This is definitily underestimated. 1960 : 5.5 1980 : 5 2000 : 4 2020 : 3

@@bumarangnebula2589 What's your data source? Mine is worldbank.

When the fertility rate was 5.0, the amount of people added per year was ~60 million. Now, with a lower, 2.4 fertility rate, we add ~80 million per year. Lower fertility rate, but MORE people. The birth rate needs to be LOWER still.

And your point, Mr.Geode? Stopping a long freight train takes more than half a mile. 8.125 billion is a nightmare.

Because we do not live in a tin sheds with no running water and one extension cord for electricity. Existing is not living.

Yeah hopefully, current generation in India is heavily influenced by western culture due to free internet and tiktok.

@@homie7218 maybe that's why india banned tiktok lol

Up to certain level. As the life conditions in India improve, the country will consume more. But the amount of resources is not unlimited, so it will lead to rise in price leading to less consumption in other countries and also to development of alternative / saving technologies. The price and consumption will reach some equilibrium across the globe

@@medicamedico4335 they did good by banning it.

True

It seems unfair but this is the harsh truth. Just imagining what the energy consumption will be when there's lets say 2 billion more people living "western lifestyle". There's no way you can produce the needed energy with solar or wind. Im not surprised that big figures like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have been giving money for scientific research in the nuclear energy space. Many scientists are trying to advocate politicians to direct funding towards nuclear energy adoption.

What do you mean live well, consume well ?. Idk, maybe majority ????, but remember living well and consuming well does not mean the same thing to everyone. So yes majority but not all as you said. Maybe you did not mean to say that, I know I frequently say all, but mean most or majority.... A funny joke I heard recently was...a wealthy western will pay alot of money to live like a third world person : ))))

@AutoFuturo Yes, Western countries do consume. But history has shown that pretty much any country that reaches a certain wealth, may it be western, asian or other starts consuming like crazy. It is human nature to enjoy live without thinking about the consequences.

@@Byrzzaa yeah the western lifestyle is much more the problem than anything else. It needs to change radically

Me too

😄😥🙇‍♀️🙇🌍😇

Me too. I prefer kitty cats over human children anyway

Yes. Way to go! I am thinking of adopting years from now.

@@blythesaunders3124 that’s so noble of you👍

Mother China more likely.

yep and we already eat so much ultra processed gmo food that’s how we can produce food at such a fast rate and that will reach a plateau eventually too

You get it, Bots102. Unfortunately, the children producing the above empty video do not. Thank you.

@@peachyevren5789 Once again, those options aren't mutually exclusive.

@Kinky Winky I have NEVER suggested forced sterilization or any kind of population control, nor would I. People should be responsible and decide not to have children for the good of everyone on this planet. I'm in favour of encouraging and supporting a child-free lifestyle. Right now it is taboo and seen as a failure, unnatural, or selfish. It's none of those things. Deciding to live child-free is ethical, fulfilling, and perfectly normal. The child-free lifestyle needs to be destigmatized. Learn how to read, moron.

Even if we reduce to only 1 billion people there would still be communities of people with little to no acsses to resources ,so suggesting such a simplistic "solution" is silly to say the least.

Exactly, and prfound thanks for your bit of refreshing overview, wisdom. Because it is most assuredly n o t an either/or nor us/them debate. But the above vid was make by ill-informed kids repeating tired bromides and dated facts. 8.125 billion people is a n i g h t m a r e. Light pollution interrupts human circadian rhythm causing breast cancer in women. The kyds producing the above are not ready for prime time.

This video makes no sense whatsoever, it's the worst one DW ever produced!!! Overpopulation is the elephant in the room! It's the root cause of all environmental problems. To lower consumption is of course good thing but it won't solve everything . But generally speaking low population = prosperity and good quality of life; high population usually means poverty Compare the standards of living in low populated countries like Norway, Ireland or Canada with overpopulated countries like Bangladesh or Nigeria ! (Yes of course you find exemptions like Singapore or Mongolia) Creators of this video must have been on drugs. 👎👎👎

Thank you, Jiris. But this silly video produced by ill-informed patty cakers has attracted dear few with your order of logic. It is indeed a silly DW. Just some kids still living at home wanting to show mom and dad what they got for their student debt in filmmaking, which they will in turn stick us with. Meanwhile, those wanting to get married and play house, a d o p t, stop breeding Let the earth recuperate. We didn't reach one billion until 1804, when Beethoven debuted his personal favorite of his symphonies, the Eroica.

Yeah... reality often disappointing

If only

Truer words never uttered, Mr. Jamiez. Thank you, sir.

Every nation with declining birthrate enjoys higher per capita GDP. There are better, more enduring, saner business models than encouraging evermore babies to become consumers and serve as cheap labor.

i so agree

absolutly

How about overpopulation ‼️

@@motherearth1147 You will have the final say soon.

All of that is related to overpopulation

What about all the other species on the planet?

Thank you, sir. Because such documentaries as this are produced by "we are the world" evasive, make nice kydz still living at home expecting us to pay off their student loans incurred getting useless degrees in marketing, filmmaking, hospitality, philosophy, deconstructing English lit, journalism, psychology, fashion design. They are unable to live as well as their yuppie parents, who themselves are bitter about not being able to live as well as their grandparents in the 1950s and '60s, so naturally they pounce on those able to have a few nice things paid for with cash they earned, not mom and dad's credit cards. 8.125 billion is too many people any way you look at it. The NY Times ran articles about overpopulation fostering pandemics, 60 Minutes a segment about overpopulation causing mass species extinction. The above "documentary" producers are not ready for prime time, and should get jobs in construction, drywall contracting, cleaning fast food grease traps at 3am, enjoy their "service economy" jobs, and leave the thinking to scientists, every poll of whom has them agreeing overpopulation by far our biggest problem, their words, "bigger than climate." Patty cake and kumbaya will not cut it. Thanks again, Sandia, but you are to hip for this room of under-informed tots.

People not breeding like rabbits will make so many things better.

Parents want their children to have children, so that their children do not question social and familiar traditions of having too many children and treating them poorly. The truth is that child needs massive amounts of love, attention, care and resources. But if you produce chidren to be extensions of yourself, helping hands around the house; so that older children help to raise the younger ones - it seems easier. I am not talking particularly about India here. Its the problem all over the world. Some people wake up to this and wait or dont want to have children, becose they are aware of just how terrible their childhood was, which society at large doesnt recognize. Hence criticism and push from society to have children quickly - if you have them, then you dont question this madness.

Wow , india can sustain the max population of 1.6 billion.

@@abhishektandon8373 by destroying all nature

@@homosapien3988 oh yeah? India has very low rates of co2 emission oer capita , Forest is always Increasing, Indian planted 220 million trees in a day And largest solar parks are in India. And many more. I bet you butthurt western media wont show all of this. Cuz you guys live in your own ego and fantasies.

@@abhishektandon8373 I am actually from india and see around me

@@abhishektandon8373 i live here

>we need to have governments around the world draft laws to prevent un-authorised births Prepare for much REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE from the religious crowds.

Two billion is what it reached in 1927, when the most beautiful spire to this day on Manhattan's skyline was still on the drawingboard, the Chrysler Building, and Lindbergh flew a crude single-engined tail dragger across the Atlantic to Paris. For all his faults, Bill Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives serious money for education and contraceptives for women and girls around the world, as does the Clinton Foundation) believes two billion an optimum number. Ted Turner, who coolly gave one billion dollars to the United Nations, believes that figure an ideal global population, what it finally reached in 1804 when Beethoven debuted his personal favorite of his symphonies, the Eroica.

What is over consuption ?Should I eat and drink less?

@@imnotracistbut7445 it means to only buy we actually need or consume...

Take me with you. 😁

Right. It is not us/them. It is simply too many people. 8.125 billion on a planet so small the towers of suspension bridges out of parallel to reflect the earth's curvature is outrageous. But the children making the above video and half the posters here gathered are unable to grasp this. Thank you, Pharzad.

Even if it's not overpopulated, low population is better. It will lead to better employment opportunities and good salaries.

It really isnt, there are parts of the world that are over populated but the world itself isnt over populated

@@shrin210 absolutely agree with that 👍🏼

Lets be honest....it is overpopulated...nobody wants to live in Kansas.

If we have less human we would need less of everything and have more of everything Not for us but for all things too(im not saying we should take everything though)

Here in the Philippines always having kids even without the income to support one or many

nah ... cause apparently having a kid is a picture of happy and functional family in many cultures and popular believes ...

@@strangeman9362 yeah and I'm a Filipina, I noticed it too, the poorer you are the more children you have. This is a serious problem for me as I value nature so much. And I hate too much people 🙃.

@@joyanimation5579 yeah that's why I'm planning to migrate somewhere and leave the philippines already to many of us filipinos here in this small country of ours

Frankly if they bothered teaching basic parenting and financial literacy in schools the world would be outright utopic at this point.

For sure, it's strange to me how one has to go through a world of education and certifications to be qualified for the simplest jobs but can become a parent on a whim.

Eventually everywhere will looks like this by later this century.

@@ShrunkedDude HA! You're completely and utterly brain dead if you believe that.

@@anomonyous well said!

@@jolenejourne you developed country people got your A$$es burn when someone states fact. An American is living a good life than a Chinese is not because of Americans struggle, their innovation, their hardwork.. But it is simply because of Imperialism. What I am trying to say is that if powerful nations stop their imperialistic policies then there Economy will automatically decline & therefore it will mean less Carboon footprints. What I am trying to say is that 10% of world population is living a FAR MORE SUPERIOR LIFE BY ENSLAVING THE REST 90% The day it will stop, you will see less more countries with average living standards and it will reduce the population in developing as well as reduce the carbon footprint from developed countries because their lifestyle will become Average from Good.

@You can eat in class!! space is never the problem in overpopulation the problem is the fact that all the vital resources would deplete more animal species would die meaning less food and more people polluting the earth

Because populations are self-regulating depending on environmental conditions. Overpopulation is basically a myth. Pretty much every developed country's birthrate is trending towards there not being enough people to support the elderly populations. It'll reach an equilibrium when the resulting imbalances falls in on itself.

Well said!!

Overpopulation is the elephant in the room! It's the root cause of all environmental problems! To lower consumption is of course good thing but it won't solve everything . Compare the standards of living in low populated countries like Norway, Ireland or Canada with overpopulated like Bangladesh or Nigeria ! Creators of this video must have been on drugs. 👎👎👎

yes

Lol never thought about that 30 years ago but so true

Unfortunately, not having children is not a solution to overpopulation (China tried it), we live as a demographic pyramid and in order for retired and older people to survive there has to be more young people being part of the economy than there are retired people.

@@MightyCoco I didn't say don't have any children. I said only have children if you actually want them. And China is just generally poorly organised and far too focussed on profit and winning at everything. Other countries which have shrinking populations have found reasonable solutions to many of these problems (such as using elderly people's equity to support them financially). We don't need the population to keep growing, we just can't have it shrink very suddenly. China tried to effectively halve their population in one generation (again - poor organisation), and of course it drove emigration out of the country, and they only realised it was a problem after it was too late to viably fix it - again poorly organised, no thought, innovation or foresight, and a one-track-minded obsession with accumulating fortune and 'winning' against all other nations. Not really a model for the rest of the world

I definitely agree

@@MightyCoco how about migration? So people don’t need no child policies and are always supplied with new „human recourses“. Also there are so many children without parents, people should think more about adoption instead of brining new life into this crowded world…

@@TinyCloud90 Hey, immigration causes social tensions man, it's a failed policy and what happens if the population also starts falling in the countries the immigrants are coming from.

1 to 2 billion? That happens if someone bombard those countries that highest in population and highest birth rates in this world.