Quote Originally Posted by LX_Emergency View Post
Anyway. I still think it's not true. Plenty of space. It's just not used too smartly. But that's not because the amount of people.
Yeah, there's plenty of space, but it has a purpose: the space is our resource. Forests, farms, lakes, rivers, nuclear test sites (tongue in cheek icon needed). Isn't there an equilibrium to be struck here? The more the population grows, the more space we need to provide for those resources we all use. But if we start encroaching on those spaces, the capacity for those resources is reduced when we actually need to increase it. So we keep squeezing tighter and tighter into those already populated areas. And that's when nature takes over and starts the cull.

'Overpopulation' to me doesn't mean the end of the world, it means things have got to a state where one of life's natural checks and balances starts happening (war, famine, disease). Then it starts over.