Overpopulation Crisis: What The World Will Look Like In 2050

From what overpopulation really means, to how it'll affect our planet, to what it'll be like in 30 years, join me as we explore the overpopulation problem via 2050.
The word "overpopulation' gets thrown around quite a lot, but do you honestly understand what it means, and what it implies? Here is the definition of the word:
"Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth."
Now, this is where it gets a bit twisted. Because many people think that "capacity of Earth" simply means that the planet cannot contain all the people that live on it, but that's the literal definition, but not what it means to say. The "capacity of Earth" is rather meant to insinuate that the Earth is not able to SUPPORT its population. As in, the space and resources available cannot facilitate the population that we have right now.
So because of that true definition, people think we don't have to worry about such a thing, because while our population is without a doubt growing, it couldn't possibly be growing at a rate that would cripple the planet, right? Wrong, very much so wrong. So wrong that if not fixed, by 2050, our world could be seriously screwed in all the ways that matter.
If you're looking for a true number to prove how bad overpopulation is getting in terms of our current situation, then let's look at the last 220 years.
You would think that given this was a roughly small period of time in the grand scheme of things that we would have a slow building of a population. But you would be wrong. If you go from 1800 to 2020 you'll see a HUGE spike in the population at certain points. Case in point, in 1800, our population was roughly 1 billion. In 2020, there are one billion people in the countries of China AND India alone! And as of 2019 (as the 2020 census hasn't been done at the time of this video) the Earth's population is roughly 7.7 BILLION people!
Which means that in the course of 200+ years, we've added nearly 7 billion people to the worlds' population. Go humanity!
But that does beg the question, how did we go from such a small population, to such a big one? And will it happen to us again to where we literally can't fill the planet with the people that we have?
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A big thing you have to understand about the world is that we honestly go through phases of life. And if you look through the history of the world, you'll see exactly what I mean. For example, in the 18th century, most civilized nations (that were "modern" at the time) weren't ones that were exactly...booming in population. After all, medicine was very much not a science at this point, there were all kinds of diseases ki*ling people, and of course, there were divides in the people.
When add all this together, what do you get? You get a population that TRIED to grow, but couldn't because of all the various ways you could die. On average, women in that era would birth about 6 children, which is a very large family in today's standards, but the fact of the matter is that only about 2 of them were projected to actually make it into adulthood.
And in fact, that was a big reason why the population was under 1 billion by 1800. There were people dying left and right because in many ways...we couldn't stop it, and that didn't change for a while. Not even with the birth of the United States in the late 1700's.
The Industrial Revolution was one of the first things to truly help change things. It started in the 1760's and lasted until about the mid 1800's. With that, there was a lot more working opportunities, mass production of goods that everyone could buy, and there were slightly better medicines. Not perfect medicines mind you, but better than what they had at the time. Furthermore, the roles of both men and women grew, including female workers of all kinds, which would eventually lead to them getting the equal rights they deserved, but that was a little bit later.
The point here is that the conditions of the world grew because of the advance in technology. There were still poor, but less than before. And just as important, the living conditions of the world improved drastically. Which meant that while people still died, it wasn't as big a factor in the stunting population as before.
A great example of this was the UK. From 1750-1850 the population of the nation went from 6 million to 15 million. That's a multiplier of 2.5! And all because the food, medicine, and living conditions of their world got better.

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