I agree, nothing lasts forever but the earth. Im doing /done my part! I don't breed.

I fundamentally disagree with your premise. Where are you getting the data that says we are running out of resouces. The US can produce enough food to feed everyone. The problem is distribution. Distribution is a solvable problem. Clean water is an issue for 3rd world countries. This is solvable too. What resources are we talking about?

Yes, well I have been asking these questions since the early 1970's when these topics were being discussed way back then.
We have the answers, but sadly the corporations and the greed for money and power are the stumbling blocks to our saving the planet. I have very little hope that we will survive without some type of global catastrophe and in fact some would answer that we are experiencing that in these times.

Water is the most important one. I know it doesn't seem to be a limited resource, but it is. Desalination in coastal regions is a possible answer there, but inland many aquifers are drying up and quite a few lakes are losing way.

Free birth control and sex ed should be a top priority IMO. Like world wide. This is what upsets me most about the Christian agenda. If overpopulation is a problem (and I believe it is) we could at least give people who don’t want babies the resources to prevent pregnancy.

Seeing the trends in population growth and resource degradation makes me feel angry at the lack of leadership, sad about the prospects for future generations, and relief that I will probably be dead before the stuff hits the fan. Still, I ride a bicycle to work, (and the grocery store, the bank, the post office), use led all lighting, compost all organic wastes, recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metals, use minimal water (by catching the cold water from the hot water pipes in a bucket, saving water used for rinsing vegetables in the kitchen sink to water outdoor plants, not having a lawn in this desert climate...). Oh, and assuredly my my most Earth-friendly act, not having kids. So I feel like I'm on the right side of history, and at least partially atoning for past sins.

Humans will become extinct. We will have had our era. The rise and fall of species fuels evolution. The earth will continue and renew itself as it always has. We aren't as significant as we think. So enjoy the day. Don't over analyze and stop stressing. Enjoy the lives we have ?

You do know you have breached the 3rd big issue people hate: religion. food choices and overpopulation. Ever hear of ZPG (zero population growth).It was the first strong environmental group and had a huge following, until some industries paid ZPG and the Sierra Club $100 million to drop the immigration portion of overpopulation. Many industries are dependent on a source of cheap and controllable labor. It worked and now what once was unassailable has become questionable. The responses to the post proves this.

Excessive use of natural resources is due entirely to human overpopulation and wasteful lifestyles. Those same excesses are the primary contributing factors to climate change and environmental degradation.

In the 1960s a great deal of attention was given to "the population bomb" and the need for ZPG (zero population growth). But, somehow the focus on those issues faded to nothing. Finally, we are again sensing the real danger.

The fundamental problem is not population but Capitalist growth. Western populations consume much more than poor ones. Population growth would stabilize in poor countries if they had socialist governments with social services. But Western imperialist countries sabotage those socialist governments that try to limit population growth. In situations of economic insecurity, your kids are insurance for the future.

Thanos is that you?

Doing my part by not having kids...

Humans have proven themselves as a nothing more than a parasite.
We need a really, really good plague.

This is why I'm an anti-natalist.

There's a guy called Jay Hanson, been running a site dieoff.org Now called [jayhanson.org] for couple of decades and he has the best collection of information on resource limits etc. Even devles into the politics and the psychology. It's a must read site for anyone interested in the subject.

It is my uneducated guess that we're pretty much fucked. What we think of as our normal life - infrastructure, abundance of comfort, food, entertainment, convenience, medicine, our cities, law and order, government, relative lack of need to fight for actual survival - all that is going to go to shit in 20-25 years.

The only way to survive is to find a way to get off this rock and live in space

I want to go on a rant right about now.

"Our population continues on the same exponential trend and we are hurdling toward a serious resource crisis? How do we humanely address population vs. resources."

What exactly do you have in mind when you write: " How do we humanely address population vs. resources“？

How very Thanos of you to ask this question. I shall dub thee Mark the Mad Earthling. So for your train of thought we should get rid of half the population...just got to get a gauntlet and all the infinity stones first. Hopefully we can become an intergalactic species in the near future before it is too late.

The most humane way to do it would be to put laws on the number of children you can have and then enforce those laws somehow whether it be a fine or jail time. If you just suggest it, nobody will do it. If you go around killing everyone then that's pretty sick in my opinion. Has the government already been killing people in more secretive ways? I don't have any good evidence for it, but it's possible. You can look at what the U.S. does around the world, but can it really be because of population control? That might just be a secondary characteristic.

People need to be made aware about just how dire this issue is. I'm not sure they will do anything about it until it's too late, and it probably already is too late. Governments have known about this issue since at least the 1950s. They have definitely dropped the ball on this because of their greed for oil sales. We should have been running on solar power for decades already and then also trying to solve the bigger oil problem even after transitioning to solar.

Life is going to become a lot more local for small numbers of people in different areas after most of the population dies off.

Its sad. Read The Road. I think it will be like that.

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I despair for the future of humanity.

No there is not enough resources to sustain us. Since we are the apex consumers in this planet the inevidible can be delayed by decrease of consumption but not prevented.