I totally agree with you. This is not about overpopulation, it's more about human being "over using" the World.

The problem is over population. This planet was never meant for 8 billion humans. Animal population is down 45% according to National Geographic. We are destroying our only home. We need to control ourselves and stop populating. It's great Obama made birth control free for women in the United States. Stop thinking it's not an issue!

It could have something to do with overpopulation......overpopulated with uncaring people.

The earth is a finite resource, therefore no, we do not have the resources to allow infinite population expansion.

I can't seem to reply to your response to my comment. You questioned the quality of my 'deep' argument because I didn't explain it. I see this all the time with people afraid of the word 'overpopulation'. You guys seem to link it to racism, culturalism, or something else. I honestly don't know why people get offended at the concept of overpopulation. Its like you all failed basic math in grade school. All life needs resources. Especially mammals. There are billions of rats because htey are small and don't need many resources while there are literally only a few thousand bears because they require so much more land and space to support them. So I ask you 'how many humans does it take to become overpopulated? ...your going to think this is a trick question so don't even bother answering. The actual number is directly related to how many resources the environment can support. There are other factors that do affect pollution but its all multiplicative of the actual number of people on

your an idiot if you think overpopulation doesn't lead to contamination.

We should stop growing

As the earth is made up of finite resources, then no, it is not physically possible for a finite resource to sustain an infinite population.

Not really. If we keep consuming meat like we do, we're about to have serious problem in the future. (no, i'm not a vegetarian).

If your read 'The world without us' or Countdown by Alan Wiseman, you would see that the problem is very much about overpopulation.

Ummm contamination from billions of people! If there were thousands, there'd be less contamination. So it is population. It involves math.

number of people on the planet. Oil companies harvest billions of gallons of oil to burn because there are billions of people on earth to use that. Can they use better technologies to pollute less? yes. Can they use alternate forms of energy? yes. But why? So we can go from 7billion humans to 9 billion? why? whats wrong with having just 1 billion people on the plannet and the result being that everyone has a huge house, plenty of land for work, recreation, and preservation? Why do you want to fill the plan-net with billions upon billions of people? So this is why I say people who don't see that overpopulation is linked to contamination. Its basic math. And if you can't do basic math you are by definition an idiot, stupid, etc... The inability to link concepts together shows your brain is not working right(which is unfortunate and we should take care of people like this). Or your being lazy and refuse to use your human brain.

Since we're NOT responsible ecologically for the number of people we have in this world, perhaps less people would help in doing less harm?!

Not really. For instance, if we reach 8 billion eating meat like we do, we're f***d.

True, it's not about overpopulation, we have still some clean lakes so keep cutting more of them trees down build more.

Take off the blinders...