http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7wiU_o4UlA&feature=related
For anyone who doesn't want to read what is below, Watch the video, the link is above. it is short (about 4 mins) and to the point! This kid made the best video out of all I thought!
Human overpopulation is an animal rights issue as well as an environmental issue and a human rights issue. Human activities, including mining, transportation, pollution, agriculture, development, and logging, take habitat away from wild animals as well as kill animals directly. These activities also contribute to climate change, which threatens even the most remote wild habitats on this planet and our own survival.
According to a survey of the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in April of 2009, OVERPOPULATION is the world’s WORST environmental problem. Dr. Charles A. Hall went so far as to say, “Overpopulation is the only problem.”
How many people are there, and how many will there be?
According to the U.S. Census, there were six billion people in the world in 1999. By 2013, we will hit seven billion. Although growth is slowing, our population continues to grow and will reach nine billion by 2048.
Are there too many humans?
Overpopulation occurs when a population has exceeded its carrying capacity. The definition of “carrying capacity” is "the maximum number of animals that a specific habitat or area can support without causing deterioration or degradation of that habitat .” It would be difficult to argue that humans are not causing deterioration or degradation of our habitat.
Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, authors of “The Population Explosion,” (Buy Direct) explain:
The entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated. Africa is overpopulated now because, among other indications, its soils and forests are rapidly being depleted—and that implies that its carrying capacity for human beings will be lower in the future than it is now. The United States is overpopulated because it is depleting its soil and water resources and contributing mightily to the destruction of global environmental systems. Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union, and other rich nations are overpopulated because of their massive contributions to the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, among many other reasons.
More than 80% of the world’s old growth forests have been destroyed, wetlands are being drained for real estate development, and demands for biofuels take much-needed arable land away from crop production.
Life on earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction, and it has been estimated that we are losing approximately 30,000 species per year. The most famous major extinction was the fifth one, which occurred about 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The major extinction that we are now facing is the first that is caused not by an asteroid collision or other natural causes, but BY A SINGLE SPECIES - HUMANS.
More about the 6th extinction:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/myers_knoll.html
Just for fun... Watch humans dissapear and the world crumble by national geogrphic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkLKWQyg_s&feature=channel
There is a full video on this explaining exactly what would happen if humans were gone. I posted it in Ebrandon Videos.
So what do you think about this.. Where is our planet heading? What good do we do for our little planet Earth... if any??? What happens when we run out of resoucres or did it ever cross your mind this could and most likely WILL happen????????
Edited by Nicole.S, 2010-07-17 14:04:25