Thursday, February 14, 2008

Overpopulated world or not?






In the past decade technology has reached beyond our imagination. Communication and the transfer of ideas have surpassed expectations, and I think technology will take us to uncharted worlds and we’ll live in planets that humans can adapt to. On the debate on whether the world will come overpopulated I believe we will find solutions. New technology will develop; other planets could additionally help with the possibility of natural resources.
Malthus is another point of argument. Malthus and Ne0-Malthuism believe that food will run out, diseases will come, and that technology won’t do as great when we need it most. This idea does seem like it might be true, but the idea is very narrow. Optimists I think are going to be right of what the fate of the world will be.
Our world is always changing. Solutions to problems we’ve overcome can be seen as positive or negative depending on your perspective. For example when we had to fight diseases we found cures, like antibiotics, but now we see superbugs. In agriculture problems have been fixed with chemicals, but the long term effects may affect us in ways we don’t realize. There might be a disease or plague, a nuclear bomb; you just never know what is going to happen, but my personal opinion is that the world will find a solution to each challenge.

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