population issues

Since at least one active member of the ISF is preoccupied with childlessness, I am surprised that we don't have a thread that deals specifically with this, and it occurred to me again when I was watching a recent episode of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: A Toddler Rides an Airport Conveyor...

It's commendable that the Pope enters the AGW debate, but sad that he also seems to ignore the most fundamental reason of all, for which the Catholic church has major responsibility. Namely that fossil fuels are not the primary problem, but population growth is. There are not enough resources...

Well, in some areas of the world there is a new trend emerging of women producing children below the fertility rate. (The rate with which it takes to stabilize a population and replace the parents). In fact, according to a U.N. study, if all women were to produce children at the rate of Germany...

I wonder if it hasn't outlived its usefulness? Is there any sign that they might move to a two-child policy for example?

Link You really would have to be this stupid to have so many kids. As the article clarifies, and as anyone who every paid attention to a high school economics class should know, the real issue of overpopulation is the availability of resources to sustain a population. Obviously she has never...

Today (Oct. 31 2011) is the honorary day at least... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-seven-billionth-baby-20111031,0,455314.story More articles (lots of interesting angles)...

Note: I hope this is the right forum and sub-forum to put this. It's a big issue with maybe no simple answers, but I'd like to hear what skeptics think about this. This is an argument I hear a lot when people are discussing development aids. They argue that it is of no or little use to help...

My entire life, I've always been worried about the population explosion. Whether that was to occur during my lifetime or after, was uncertain but I was certain that the Earth would eventually reach carrying capacity, population would peak, and the results would be grim. There are numerous...

Last night my attention was called to a lecture delivered by a professor at the University of Colorado concerning growth and the exponential curve. Now, I'm well aware of the charged atmosphere around the conclusions the professor is drawing, and I was aware of he meaning of exponenial growth...

The above post is one of the reasons why the developed world is dying out.