{"id":35710,"date":"2018-07-03T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35710"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:57:44","slug":"overpopulation-problem-what-overpopulation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35710","title":{"rendered":"Overpopulation Problem? What Overpopulation Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/overpopulation-problem-what.html\">Overpopulation Problem? What Overpopulation Problem?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-9000960669265475941\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FWffD16layY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><i>Some people seem to be horrified at the sight of these images. For me, it is more a sensation of melancholy. These masses of people can exist only for a brief moment in the history of humankind. Overpopulation is a problem that will solve itself rather quickly although, unfortunately, not without pain.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I keep reading more and more comments about overpopulation on the social media. It is not just an impression: the trend of increasing interest in population matters is visible in Google Trends. Still weak, but it is there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZJzO89cuKdE\/WzkBfvc4JLI\/AAAAAAAAg48\/MEU6VFR7ThE9wJdTz7ag-e0s0_KN0pk_wCLcBGAs\/s1600\/HumanPopulation.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZJzO89cuKdE\/WzkBfvc4JLI\/AAAAAAAAg48\/MEU6VFR7ThE9wJdTz7ag-e0s0_KN0pk_wCLcBGAs\/s400\/HumanPopulation.PNG\" width=\"400\" height=\"187\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"535\" data-original-width=\"1141\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is puzzling how the question is returning. <a href=\"http:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/overpopulation-life-and-death-of-meme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It had disappeared from the media<\/a> after it had been popular in the 1970s, at the time of the first &#8220;The Limits to Growth&#8221; study. At that time, there were less than 4 billion people and that was viewed as a huge problem. Then, somehow, it became unfashionable to mention overpopulation, just as it became unfashionable to consider &#8220;The Limits to Growth&#8221; as anything more than a completely wrong study written by people not smarter than Chicken Little (<a href=\"https:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/cassandra-and-limits-to-growth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it wasn&#8217;t the case<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now, with twice as many people &#8211; 7.6 billion humans &#8211; we see a return of the idea that &#8211; really &#8211; there may be a little problem of overpopulation. Humans are so many that they are appropriating a larger and larger fraction of the ecosystem. That means less and less space for other species which are, indeed, fast disappearing. When you read that, in a not too remote future, the only large animal left on the Earth <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/cows-could-one-day-be-the-largest-land-mammals-left-because-of-human-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be the cow<\/a>, well, that makes you think.<br \/>\n\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overpopulation Problem? What Overpopulation Problem? Some people seem to be horrified at the sight of these images. For me, it is more a sensation of melancholy. These masses of people can exist only for a brief moment in the history of humankind. Overpopulation is a problem that will solve itself rather quickly although, unfortunately, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10777,606,1371,1169,2692],"class_list":["post-35710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-overpopulation","tag-population","tag-social-media","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35711,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710\/revisions\/35711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}