Is overpopulation good or bad?

Rabisankar Patra > * By 2050, the United Nations has projected that there will be 9.6 billion people on the planet. With 9.6 billion people, even if your stock market shoots to 40000, you will still not be doing well. read more

Overpopulation, i.e., a population that exceeds the resources needed to sustain it, is bad for the species that overpopulates. The more we produce; the more rapidly we exhaust resources. However, it is consumption, esp of fossil fuels, that most puts us at risk of extinction. read more

Too Many Humans: Overpopulation Is Bad for People and the Planet In the developing world, where high fertility rates impede efforts to reduce poverty and prevent environmental degradation, reproductive choice can be a game changer. read more

They are calling Bill Gates a devil. I told them that Bill Gates simply said to control population growth and they said that this is wrong because there is no such thing as overpopulation. read more

In a few of my classes I took last year (World Geography and Macroeconomics), we were taught that reducing the population would be both good and bad for various reasons. read more