Do you think America 🇺🇸 is over crowded?

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nightdrot · Accepted Answer

Actually no. In general, fertility rates soar when populations are predominantly rural and the economy is relatively poor and primitive. Children are needed to work the fields and take care of their parents as they get older and can no longer work. The more children, the more work that gets done and later the more evenly the burden of caring for elderly parents is distributed.

Then, as an economy industrializes, modernizes and gets wealthier, birthrates tend to drop - as they are now in the United States. As an economy industrializes, there is no need to have children who can help out on the farm, so to speak. The cost of raising children goes up proportionately as the need to educate them to work and live in a more complex and technologically sophisticated economy increases. Moreover, such economies tend to produce welfare states that take care of the needs of the elderly, meaning that children no longer need care for their aging parents.

(The paradox being that a welfare state, over the long run, actually needs more young workers and taxpayers in order to pay the benefits of the elderly. As yet, it is not clear how modern welfare states will work this out as the tax burden on the young will begin to grow exponentially as the population ages.)

Indeed, regarding the world's most populous country, China's demographic patterns are already shifting. The population is aging and the workforce is growing more slowly. This was aggravated - intensely - by the now revoked "one child policy." Indeed, that policy was revoked in no small measure because it was having adverse effects on the aging of the population.

Not to mention that it was resulting in a disproportionate number of male to female births. As a rule, when there is a disproportionate percentage of male births, crime rates tend to rise and societies tend to go to war more frequently. Science is not entirely sure why this is - though there are clearly evolutionary patters and instincts at work - but the ideal balance is 51% female/49% male. (In China, the ratio peaked nationally in 2004 with 121.2 boys born for every 100 girls, and some provinces have seen the ratio climb as high as 130. But the figure has been falling for the last seven years and stood at 113.5 last year.)

Put simply, population control tend to occur spontaneously over time and where men step in with a priori plans to implement it, things can go badly wrong. As an ethical matter, children become mere commodities. As a demographic matter, the natural balance between girls and boys tips wildly toward boys, resulting in rising crime rates and even war. As an economic question, labor shortages develop, productivity drops and economic growth slows, thereby causing rising poverty over time.

To be sure, at any given moment in any given place population and resources may not match up. There is no perfection in this life and where imbalances develop aid in the form of food, medicine and other ameliorative measures can - and should within reason - be provided.

That said, the notion that there is a need for population control is an outgrowth of the theories of Malthus. In this such notions are about as cutting edge as 1798. Not exactly the latest science, to say no more.

The law of unintended consequences always pertains and where man has stepped in with his own theories of eugenics and/or population control to affect that which nature and evolution have mastered long ago, bad things are apt to follow. (See also China above.) Best to leave nature to takes its course and treat the consequences as opposed to trying to "fix" that which millions of years of experience tell us is not broken.

Surely · Accepted Answer

Getting there quickly! People better learn to eat concrete and macadam. Since great farm lands are being paved over and shopping centers built on them!

BlueScorpio · Accepted Answer

Er no. Certain cities can be overpopulated cause people prefer living in the city than rural areas. The world itself is not over populated, the world is not the size of a golf ball. How is that you guys laugh at people thinking the world is flat, meanwhile the 1%, elites have convinced y'all that there's not enough food, water, a living space on earth? The problem isn't the population of humanity, the problem is greed and lack of willingness to spread resources to those who are effected by poverty. Millionaires and billionairs could end world hungry/poverty several times over if they wanted, build homes, give clean water and food etc. But choose not too.

Thats the problem, the cost of living and capitalism is slowly strangling us but sadly they convinced y'all it's the fact that you exist, breathing too much air, and eating too meat is why the whole world is falling apart. For people who keep thinking this way, not a single one of them is offering to cull themselves or families lives to fix this supposed problem but they keep talking about it.

People need to be careful with this overpopulation talk or theory, you have no idea what it could lead too. It might just cost you and millions or maybe billions of peoples lives. The smaller the population of earth gets the easier it is to control the masses.

Jessica405 · Accepted Answer

The whole world is over populated. Mass migration by economic migrants, in Europe, is compounding the issue.

WhiteSteve · Answer

I think the world population in general needs to be taken down from the current 7-8 billion people to about 1 billion, worldwide. Too many humans, nature is now out of whack, there’s not supposed to be this many of us, and if we just look around we can easily see how and why this simply isn’t sustainable. I don’t know how that’s accomplished without genocide, lmao, I’m not saying I have the solution, but I can easily spot this as a problem.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

When I was born in 1955, the population of the US was 161,000,000. At present, the population is 338,000,000. It has more than doubled during my lifetime. Yes, it feels a bit crowded.

exitseven · Answer

yes, people are all over the place like dog shit. developers are building like gophers. There is so much traffic that roads are almost unusable. Fossil fuels are not the reason for global warming if there is such a thing. It is too many people.

ohsheeT · Answer

America itself is not overcrowded but all of our cities are overcrowded America has tons of property tons of land in my state BLM owns 3/4 of all the land in the last past 3 years we probably gotten over 200 businesses that have moved into town Amazon IBM Tesla Panasonic Sony I've always wondered if they all got their heads together they all built their buildings why not find a piece of Prime Property 500 miles from the nearest town and build their own little city because it would become a big city it would put people to work and if it's a prime location for all of them I think it would do good we need probably about another 10 more States to get us back to where we were 20 years ago

BeMuse · Answer

Based on what? Population density? Not really, we have a lot of open space. That said that open space is used for producing our resources. Arable land has declined significantly since the 1970s. That said, on something like a corn/soybean rotation we could produce 10 times the calories our nation currently needs to survive, but you don't want to put all your eggs in one baskets and end up starving in a potato famine. Thus you have to grow a diversity of crops, some of which are less calorie dense per acre.

TadCurious · Answer

Yes. I think we should decrease immigration (both legal and illegal) in order to assimilate the 70 million who have come over the last 50 years and to take pressure off our resources. Immigration is the biggest driver of population growth in the United States. If it weren't for immigration the population curve on a graph would be flattening and stabilizing. Much of the American West is objectively overpopulated in terms of having adequate water supplies. And tell me we don't have a numbers problem the next time you're stuck in traffic.

MarkRet · Answer

The entire WORLD is overcrowded, and so is America, to a lesser extent. That's why all the illegals are trying to get into America from Latin America, China, and Haiti. Those areas are already ruined. That part of the sinking ship is already underwater, and now they're trying to get to the part that's still above water for now.

MCheetah · Answer

No. 80% of the entire country lives east of the Mississippi. There's plenty of space left in the US. Some cities, like NY, are too crowded, though.

MementoMori_ · Answer

"Do you think America is over crowded?"

Only with Democrats.

My proposed solution is to make abortion mandatory for Democrats. I think that would be appealing to both sides of the political spectrum since Democrats are so enamored with abortion.

DJB72 · Answer

Not remotely

Some cities, yes but since about 75% of the population lives in those cities in a country 3000 miles across, not remotely.

I think if transport systems broke down America would face mass starvation worse than anywhere on earth because the cities are so densely populated, but anyone remotely familiar with how the States are populated can see the majority of the country is uninhabited

genericname85 · Answer

if you look at population density as a measure of inhabitants per square mile, the USA averages to rank 161 in global comparison.

so i would say that there's no argument for "overcrowded america". there may be overcrowded local areas in america. but america itself as a country has a lot of space for it's inhabitants. it's a problem of localized distribution if anything, not a problem of too little space in general.

Dargil · Answer

Nope. If you don't like it, move away from it. On the average, most states west of the Mississippi except Washington California and Oregon and Nevada are vacant. The South including Tennessee Alabama Mississippi are pretty vacant as well. They just have to make the sacrifice to get away from fast food restaurants every 150 yards.

Anonymous · Answer

with illegal yes... do it the right way like our ancestors did!

Robbey · Answer

Overall, no. But the east coast, especially the northeast, and even more so the southwest is.

Lliam · Answer

LOL Not even. I've driven across this country. It's mostly uninhabited.

MikeTheBartender · Answer

Whoever asked this had never been to Asia.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

No, there are less people here than when I was a kid. Most places have less people walking around, more houses are empty, and most stores have a dozen or more registers, but only 1-3 cashiers.

libsaretards · Answer

The major cities are overcrowded. However, if we were to evenly space out our population within the land we do have, each area would be appropriately populated. There is plenty of empty land in the U. S.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

No.  Sure the big cities are really densely populated, but you also got wide areas of nature, where no one lives. So on avarage you only got a handfull of people per km².

Sargentcaptain · Answer

Not really. States like California, sure, but when you look at Texas, Montana, Idaho and the really the majority of the country, it's far from being overcrowded.

letuswaltzforthedead · Answer

How? The country doesn't even have half a billion and it could probably fit more than 2 Billion.

HighValue · Answer

Overall, no. Some areas are sparsely populated while others are densely populated though.

RangerBlue22 · Answer

Actually only 2% of our land is developed. This includes roads and everything.  But we are the third most populous country in the world.

Part2603 · Answer

Why is there no triathlon in Mexico? Because anyone that can run, swim or jump is already in America!

AviatorTom · Answer

Not at all. Whenever my European friends and colleagues visit the USA, they are always amazed at how much space there is.

Anonymous · Answer

Go Trump

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

The USA's metropolitan areas are crowded with immigrants.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

The opposite. America is a very large country and only has a population of about 340 million which is very little compared to how huge this country is land mass wise.

AngryCarl · Answer

As some of you know I'm not an American so I can only comment on what I see. The cities certainly appear to be grossly overcrowded from what I'm seeing in the media.

Luopio27 · Answer

The world is way overpopulated. The poorer the country the more people there are. China, India and others.

Thatdude091699 · Answer

No, not even close. It only seems that way if you are talking about cities. The vast majority of the US is unoccupied.

AsaKyo · Answer

With all the gun murders and drug suicides, you'd think they wouldn't be

LazerBean · Answer

*laughs in rural American country side*

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, we need Donald Trump to put people that do not belong out of the country.

Anonymous · Answer

yes. particularly with californians and people from mexico.

LilyByte · Answer

depends on were you are there are many ares with no one around for miles and miles

Jltakk · Answer

We don't have the urban planning nor a concrete immigration policy to maintain a population worth its salt.

McKellar · Answer

Some cities and states within America are, yes.

Fuentes · Answer

I know the free way is always jammed packed

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Without question. People that say no are kidding themselves. There’s WAY too many people in the world.

dolemite89 · Answer

the cities are for sure, plenty of open ugly space in oklahoma and kansas tho 😂

BLP11520 · Answer

I don't know, but the border is like Swiss cheese

Anonymous · Answer

Yes... way too many trumpers contaminating America. Get rid of the trumpers and America will be livable again.

jjj101010 · Answer

Nope there r literally places where u can drive for hours and not see anyone

Hotboy_booblover · Answer

U shud come to India once..  1 city accommodates the entire population of a country

Anonymous · Answer

No. In specific places, definitely. But there's still plenty of rural areas.

Anonymous · Answer

yeah way to overcrowded. this country needs a stronger virus to kill more people off

Anonymous · Answer

crowded with men with bigger p*nises than our indian ones :(((

Anonymous · Answer

R u kidding me? America is under populated compare to other country in Asia, Europe, etc

Msputiton · Answer

Certain parts yes

call_me_scar · Answer

We got plenty of room

Literalbillionaire17 · Answer

In certain places yeah

ODC2112 · Answer

US are unpopulated.

TroyDT · Answer

No, and neither is the planet.

Alex8736 · Answer

That's a no brainer. Absolutely

888theGreat · Answer

Hardly no one in west besides California

EaterPeter · Answer

No way if USA is what about China and India?

misfittoy · Answer

very much so

Anonymous · Answer

Just the major cities are

Anonymous · Answer

Just in the big cities.

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