What kind of problems result for population growth in both developing countries and our own? Which is greater?

Many people regard the rapid population growth of developing countries as our most serious environmental problem. Others think that the population growth in developed countries, though smaller, is actually a greater threat to the environment. What kinds of problems result from population growth in developing countries and in industrialized countries? Which do you think is the greater threat, and why?What kind of problems result for population growth in both developing countries and our own? Which is greater?First, the environment is not and has never been a stable condition. It is a myth that the environment is a stable condition. It is a myth that any but only the most remote places on Earth have not been completely changed drastically by humanity, already, hundreds of times. Take Australia for example; soon after people moved in 70,000 yrs ago, it was deforested, 10 foot tall man-eating birds and giant sloths, etc, were wiped out. Nothing is ever the same as it was, and can not ever remain the same. Giant cave bears, tigers, and whooly mammoths ...wiped out. Easter Island, wiped out and deforested. Corn farming in America for 20,000 yrs, left deserts. Ferile pigs wiped out 1,000,000 species all over. Rats! Goats don't belong! Cattle! All is artificial, and not like it was. With that introduction I will say that we ARE changing the environment TOO FAST. The biggest problem is extinctions that are occuring before we perfect biological and genetic engineering, because you can not paint without paint, you can not improve a species if it is gone. Feeding all the people in a free market is a major problem, especially with cultural, religious, and intellectual bias against biological engineering. Pollution is certainly a problem, and YES, America, the pig with the biggest appetite for consumable goods, produces 20 times as much pollution per person as the average filipino. A lack of family planning is the greatest threat, because it reduces us to stupid animals where our sexual appetite can give us children we cant even feed. Leaders in industrial nations actually like overpopulation troubles in developing nations, because it keeps the wealthy wealthy, the poor poor, and creates a cheapest labor source. However, all the while species are dying everywhere. Overpopulation historically leads to war, and then we have to slaughter hundreds of millions of people as if they are insects. We are killing species so fast that the result will be as total as when a meteor(s) struck the earth and wiped out 99% of life (dinosaurs). In 50,000 years people will again be happy with their environment, will not miss us, and they will rejoice in being alive. They will not even physically resemble us, in a completely changed planet and human genome. Life is change. Yes it is wise to slow it, but change is inevitable.What kind of problems result for population growth in both developing countries and our own? Which is greater?Having more people isn't necessarily the problem. The problem lies in the amount of resources it takes to give these people a comfy standard of living. If we could find a way to feed more people with less land, provide more energy without creating more pollution, and actually recycled most of the stuff we use then the number of people that our environment could sustain would go up substantially.



If that didn't answer your question: The threats of a growing population--that may be growing too fast--for developed and developing countries are great; neither is a greater threat than the other. This is because the outcome for both is the same thing: more people demanding more resources that the nations possibly can't provide, or have to find a way to provide.