The new ethical controversy?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by lookout123

But if everyone on the planet is doing the same thing we could run out of space pretty quickly.

With the overpopulation thing, it isn't so much of how many people there are or how they live, but how they live their lives. The world could potentially support a population twice the size it is now but we would collapse instantly if half the population lives at 1st world middle class standards.

[lookout123]

then why would we even want to do something that would increase the population?

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

With the overpopulation thing, it isn't so much of how many people there are or how they live, but how they live their lives. The world could potentially support a population twice the size it is now but we would collapse instantly if half the population lives at 1st world middle class standards.

Well then the world certainly cannot support twice the population can it?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Well then the world certainly cannot support twice the population can it?

I don't know for sure that we can support a population twice the size it is now but we can support a population bigger than it is now if we really tried, those people being born in extreme poverty being the catch.