China to begin two-child policy

Re:China to begin two-child policy by s_dev on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:24AM (#10470442)

I think perhaps you're conflating world population with the Chinese population. Overpopulation can occur in small areas without the world being too overpopulated as a whole -- most of them in SE Asia. If theres lots of people and limited resources, the math simply won't hold up. It affects issues like the environment and human health.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by eru on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:57AM (#10470593)

Singapore is doing fine at high population density.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by sjwright on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:50AM (#10470932)

Singapore doesn't exist in a vacuum. An enormous amount of foreign low population density agricultural land is sustaining their lifestyles.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by s_dev on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:32AM (#10470819)

Singapore is very developed. Overpopulation is more a problem for densely populated developing places - Bangladesh, Victorian London, South American shanty towns et cetera.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by eru on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:00AM (#10478199)

Yes. Though they only developed in the last 50 years.

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