overpopulation is not about the food, it is about the quality of life

Food plays an enormous role in people’s quality of life @alex1320. It all begins with it, how healthy, and possibily productive as well as prosperous they will be. Lack of food will lead people to commit crimes, to beg and so forth. So, abundance of food does have an important part to play when it comes to overpopulation.

Neverheless, I couldn’t agree more with you when you adress infrastructure (eg. traffic, housing). I have just recently watched a documentary on a project that is taking place in London called ‘The Super Sewer’. The documentary wasn’t about overpopulation, but it showed the overwhelming amount of waste produced in a city like London, whose sewer system was inittialy built to deal with the waste of 2.000.000 people and now has 9.000.000.

Indeed the ingenuity of men and the decreasing rate of births may delay the recurrence of such problems. As the post sugests. But, whenever I hear about overpopulation, like you, my thoughts tend to drift more towards topics like the impact we have on the planet itself. For example, the toll progress takes on natural environments.

I enjoyed reading your comment :)