Overpopulation?

How big is the US illegal immigration problem and can Trump solve it?

May 30, 2024 July 20, 2024

Let me start by saying I do feel unauthorised migration over the US southern border has become a genuine problem and it would be reduced under Donald Trump.

However, I also feel this problem is grossly misrepresented for political advantage, and even the southern border is better managed under Trump, it is not the real immigration problem and will make little difference to other very real problems facing the average American citizen.

Not that Democrats are any better on the real problem. Joe Biden is so committed on using migration to grow the economy that he even labelled allies “xenophobic” for not using immigration to grow their economy, plus Biden trusts economic indicators telling him the economy is fine, instead of the US citizens telling him it isn’t.

Population: Our greatest achievement may yet cause our demise.

August 18, 2023 August 18, 2023

Arguably mankind’s greatest achievement, the near eradication of infant mortality, has resulted in a population explosion resulting in overpopulation that we prefer not to mention, even though it may yet kill us. Technically we would not die from overpopulation itself, just as people don’t really die from “old age”, and the real risk is that an already present threat will be exacerbated and become fatal because through our greed we ignore overpopulation.

Unlike old age, the overpopulation risk factor could be avoided or reversed, we may be influenced by economists dependant on Ponzi schemes, the worlds’ largest corporations and billionaires who thrive off the resultant increases in inequality into believing that living conditions required by ever increasing population levels benefit everyone and not just those living in mansions.

Ideal/optimum human population: How many people can, or should, each country, and the whole planet support?

April 11, 2023 May 1, 2024

It seems like the human population has forever been growing, but any analysis makes it clear growth must stop eventually at some level. Perhaps consider that the wealthier each person, the less people the planet can support when answering the question of at what level should growth stop?

Do we go for the maximum possible people just before everything collapses, even if average living standards could be far better with a smaller population? When caged hens are farmed for eggs, people advocate for a lower population to allow living free-range for a better existence, yet with people being farmed by multinationals, billionaires and politicians growing the human population to grow the economy, it seems that denser and denser housing and reduced resources per person for human workers is accepted.

Most countries seem to agree that global population growth should end but and state that ends its own population growth faces economic disaster.

Overpopulation: starvation is not the symptom.

December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019

The Myth: We are not starving yet means we aren’t overpopulated. The Truth: Overpopulation is defined as when population reaches a level resulting in damaging to the environment and is unsustainable. Starvation only happens if overpopulation continues until a final catastrophic environmental collapse and is no more a symptom of overpopulation than death is a symptom of disease. Unsustainability is a symptom.

Consider grazing animal on a farm. Overpopulation means unattainability and the animals eat grass faster than it grows, starvation when there is no grass left.

We are not yet starving, but unsustainability means we are overpopulated, and progressively, all but perhaps the richest 1% must suffer if we fail to constrain population.

Peak Population 2055: Really? That soon?

April 30, 2019 May 23, 2025

Is it realistic that Earth could reach peak population by 2055? Is there really already the largest number of under 35s on Earth there will ever be? Peak newborns already? What is the reality, and what are the implications?

The Potential Scale and Impact of population growth: 7 trillion humans?

March 8, 2017 April 3, 2022

7 trillion looks like a typo, but no, the maths shows that either by continuing the actual global population growth levels typical the 20th century,

Brexit and Trump: Common Theme?

June 24, 2016 February 18, 2022

I suggest there are two key points in common between the nomination of Donald Trump as the republican candidate, and the ‘Brexit’ vote in the

The daunting steps to the multiplanetary species Sci-Fi dream of new home planets.

May 31, 2016 July 26, 2022

There is a dream, often explored in science fiction, where humanity inhabits not just one planet, but many.

While the dream is still centuries away, as is ‘Earth 2.0‘, the reality, working towards small outposts on Mars or the Moon or even beyond is overwhelmingly compelling and can provide many rewards.

Humanity may get minor outposts, but for centuries, will have no real second home, and over 99% of us will still need to live on our one finite planet.

Lessons from SciFi: Future Expansion

May 31, 2016 December 1, 2019

The actor Morgan Freeman has declared he is determined to produce a movie based on the novel ‘Rendevous with Rama’ by Arthur C Clarke. Great

Population Growth Change Lag: The Population Pipeline

May 16, 2016 March 3, 2024

Even after the “peak child” the population on this planet could continue to grow for decades, as the “population pipeline” creates inertia and a situation analogous to how a super tanker can continue forward even after the engines have stopped, or even switched to reverse.

Population growth is the difference between the number of people who are born, and the number of people who die, and as there is a lifetime delay between those two events, at any one time the people being born are from a world separated by many generations from . People enter the population pipeline at birth and remain in the pipeline until they die, which on the current world average current world average of 73, which means deaths today reflect the global population of 73 years ago.