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Originally Posted by UPP
You're correct with you're first paragraph, but that is not due to overpopulation, but corruption. As far as food production, if we replaced coffee with food crops, most central and south American countries could throw food away at the rate that we do.  I've done missionary work in Africa, Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala, and I can tell you, the so-called 1% are an absolute blight on the rest of the world.
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Yeah, human beings have nothing to do with pollution, deforestation, depletion of natural resources (especially water), invasive species, viral epidemics, and toxic levels of fecal matter in much of the bays and freshwater lakes in many countries. Not to mention the extinction of a significant proportion of the World's mammals. Have you seen what is going on in Europe? Millions of people from all over the World are migrating through Europe, trying to seek refuge. They are blocking highways, ripping open semi trailers, and throwing rocks at the drivers. How many of these people are Syrian refugees? 5%? 1%?
The influx of people we are seeing in Europe is a direct result of the population explosion, and the inability of Western Democracy to stop it, as the migrants, often from places where there is not even enough to eat most of the time, let alone jobs and housing, are coming in droves in search of a better life, even though these countries cannot absorb them, as it is a massive strain on their social services.
The UK left the European Union mainly due to this. Luckily we in North America have a huge Ocean separating us from the less fortunate. My worst fear is one country is going to elect a totalitarian regime that will make Hitler and the National Socialists look like saints. Would anyone on this forum have honestly predicted a decade ago that a massive percentage of Americans would support an incompetent, bigoted, and divisive man like Donald Trump? The 2016 US election looks like a better produced episode of the Jerry Springer show.
I ahve a sad feeling that some of the posters who are dismissing my points as ridiculous, have no idea about the history of North American/European nations. Maybe they are in denial. I can't ever recall the American voting public making a hate-filled nutcase, a serious contender for the Presidency. I mean there are riots in the streets along racial lines even worse than what went down in the 60s. And of course, none of this is due to overpopulation, or the strain on the World's resources. Americans must be doing it due to bad weather....
