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I'm thinking of a future with better transportation, in which you could just take a bullet train out to the farm. (And it doesn't even have to be that far away, either.) People already live in the desert voluntarily, and deserts aren't always hot (e.g., Antarctica). It would probably be best if humans concentrated in mild climates where we don't need much heating or air conditioning, probably near water so we'd have easy access to it. Even in a high-rise, you can have a garden, a pool, etc.--it doesn't have to be like a boxed-in dorm.

My point was pretty much that humans have the technology to live in places where not many plants grow or animals thrive, and we should take advantage of that so we can maximize food production and human comfort without bothering other species.

Problem is, I don't see humans living in harmony with nature when they live near it, but rather bulldozing trees to build McMansions and complaining about deer in their yards when they were the ones who moved into the deer's habitat. You can't have your Super Wal-Mart and your suburban seclusion, too. You can plant trees in Brooklyn, but you can't build a subway under a wetland.

It's not so much that we are over populated, it's that we are wasting the resources we need to support the population.
For example, we can use ethonal made from corn as gasoline instead of oil.
It seems to me as we become more "advanced", we become more lax when it comes to handling natural resources and waste them more frequently and instead or recycling we just throw stuff away.

I live in a desert and I can tell you there is plenty of open space and trees and other plants can grow here, ect... and here it isn't really much hotter then places like L.A.

People can build all things of things if they wanted to (the biggest issue is money. The town near by is very small and poor so they won't do much).


It's not so much as world overpopulation as it is with certain cities being overpopulated. We have many rescources as we but we just don't always use them.

Nope, not Texas and part of the name of the place I live in inclueds the word desert.

Although it's true that we waste natural resources like it's nobody's business, it's also true that there is more oil available to the general public than ever before. The rising gas prices are caused by the demand of consumers. People have decided that they need it so bad that it doesn't matter what oil companies do, they will buy it anyway. A monopoly held by more than one company, interesting concept.

If we're going to talk about waste here, there's the issue of disposable consumerism as well. Everyone went on a huge kick about not littering years ago, but nobody seems to realize that the garbage has to go somewhere, and landfills aren't much better than the street corner. We throw out way too much stuff, but nobody cares because there are enough people around that we can pass responsibility.


Overpopulation is a comfort created by people. By saying that the world is overpopulated it makes it easier to blame everybody else for actions that you choose to partake in as well. There are more people than ever before, but we also have the resources to support this growth if we simply make an effort. Who's making an effort though? I, for one, am not. Are you?