As explained in “my journey to understanding population“, my first explorations here were focused on looking at how, despite falling birth rates, population continued to grow.
I finally arrived at an understanding on how there Earth is fully populated, and every species, humans included, stabilises population in balance with nature, and overpopulation events naturally correct themselves.
- Highlighted Explorations.
- My Journey To Understanding Population , and Normal Population.
- Normal Population: Each Species Naturally Finds Its Population.
- Surprise: We really are at Peak Child.
- Peak Humanity: When Will Population Peak, And What follows?
- No Vacancy: For every increase in human population, other species decrease.
- Population Explosion: What happened to get to 8 Billion people (growth x100)?
- Key Resources:
- Population Pyramids: A History And Prediction For Every Country (predictions may not be correct)
- Birth Rates By Country. Who is above 2.3?
- More explorations on population.
I am trying to keep a full history of explorations here.
- Overpopulated?
- Do we really have too many people? What is the test?
- Starvation is not a useful indicator of overpopulation
- Yes, despite that humanity is not yet starving, we are overpopulated.
- Environmental damage and ‘Carrying Capacity‘: the real test for overpopulation
- Overpopulation solutions? Population as a ratio, not a number.
- Do we really have too many people? What is the test?
- Solutions: Population and the Environment
- If the Earth is overpopulated, so what? Manage Sustainability, and population will adjust.
- Why more than the current change is required.
- Mostly, we just need a plan.
- The Economics That Promote Population Growth and Overpopulation Denial
- The global economy Ponzi scheme.
- Wealth vs Population: Who benefits, and who loses
- Addressing the Ageing Population Problem.
- Population growth Is Not Out of Control: The Good News? (The Surprise!)
- Immigration & Population
- to be added
Previous Pages, Analysis, and background:
Reference Pages
The Surprise (footnotes)
When I made my first ever ‘exploration’, and my first surprise, back in 2012. I began the exploration with the belief that population growth was out of control. The first ‘surprise’ discovery, was that population growth had turned the corner. Too late, with already too many people, but that the growth slowing and likely even ending!
The human population of the earth, as a result of the population explosion which reached speed in the 1700s, is clearly now beyond a levels where we currently are able to exist in the environment sustainably: Overpopulation.
This presents humanity with the following alternatives:
- find a way to significantly reduce the population to a level sustainable with the current ‘footprint’ per capita
- find a combination of limiting further population growth while simultaneously reducing environmental footprint per capita
- continue unsustainably until the environment collapses
Yes, surprisingly, humanity now has population growth under control, but even if growth stays under control, we could add another 3 billion people while filling the population pipeline, at the same time more people move from a lower impact 3rd world lifestyle to a higher impact 1st world life. Potential disaster, yet there are calls from a variety of powerful groups to return to uncontrolled population growth.
Provided humanity can retain control of population, there is hope we can reach sustainability by reducing environmental impact per capita. But it is not easy, and may not be reached before environmental collapse.