Is the earth really overpopulated?

Yes, without a doubt.
The ONLY reason we're having children, three at MOST, is because Husband and I are the LAST of our family lineages.
Also, we both want kids to love them and complete us as a family, that's Numero Uno Reason--and we've done enough 'in the trenches' babysitting for our friends to have a good, solid idea of what we'll be dealing with across a wide range of ages.
NO romanticism here!
Yes there's gonna be the rough spots, projectile vomiting, spills, scrapes, teething, etc.. but also the good times and such also.

Yes, we've checked, professionally, and spent much time and $$ to find out conclusively that we are IT. Each the Last of our lines.
Thus, we're going to start a new Lineage, and we don't give a single whispering thought as to gender.
Girls, boys, some of both...whatever, so long as they're healthy and happy is the only thing that matters to us.

Yes, by humans.

Blessings to all and,
May all be well with you ^_^

By humans, that is.

More than Earth can handle...

i believe it is very very overpopulated

Ever been to Wyoming, Montana or South Dakota?

With very very stupid people

Al gore seems to think so........... he probably has more inline education to economy and agriculture than youre average, "joe".

Seriously doubt it. Since the entire world population can be located in TX at the same density as Manhattan.

God has provided all we will need if we work for it.

not with the way the u.s. imperialistic govt is rolling.

There is just to many lazy people sitting around waiting to be fed.

Certain cities are but the assumption the world is overpopulated is a myth. Most of the world is uninhabited. There are loads of foodstuffs that are thrown away every day. Starvation is caused by corrupt people, not by "overpopulation".

...very much so...

yes

Far from it actually.

From what I hear, humans aren't following the typical type of asymptotic growth that most species do (probably because of technology). I don't know if we can know with certainty, until the experiment's over, whether we can or can't engineer ourselves out of not following the growth function of virtually every other creature on Earth.

hey i live in Texas! And um well i guess there is space?

If it is, nature has many methods of population control at her disposal.

with moochers , socialists, communists, and muslium nut cases.

People, by their very nature, do not get along; we don't have enough space for the people on this planet, thus the ever increasing wars and smaller conflicts around the world.

Just populated in the wrong places!

For the resources we have left yes

The last time I heard the figures we could give each person on earth a 5,000 square foot house on a sixteenth of an acre and move them all to Texas leaving the rest of the world empty... Malthusians will of course be upset, but I believe the numbers put the acres of Texas a little short and so if we built 3 story townhouses on that 16th of an acre we should be able to fit everyone in Glenn Beck's backyard.

If you put everyone on Earth into Texas, you would have a population density higher than New York City. You couldn't possibly move enough resources in to supply all of them, and even if you could, you couldn't get the waste out. New York already has a waste disposal problem, and it is geographically much smaller than Texas.

Not to mention the incredible violence that would come from cramming people together so tightly.

Probably closer to the population density of Canton or Amsterdam, as for the logistics it would be completely feasible, but perhaps unpleasant especially if we were surrounded by Malthusian cultists. The idea is simple, convert the mountains of waste into methane, then convert the remnants to hydrogen and finally the remaining catalase to energy providing compounds, if the sewage process is not allowed to destroy the water table there would be plentiful fresh water and recycled water could be used for rooftop agricultural gardens. The issue is not finite resources it is the intent of a foolish privileged class who believe the effect of a culling of the population would not impact them personally, of course this is a foolish caprice as the resources necessary to sustain this small selfish group would be consumed in the elimination of other subsequent classes and the fortitude of their ranks indicate they would be usurped by their soldiers when their currency becomes worthless in the application of social disruption, or perhaps when their provisions become more valuable than their "indispensable" guidance and are slaughtered by their own brigands and psychopaths.

It's prettty simple math, the population density would be at New York City levels, maybe a bit higher. You talk of things that are technically possible, I talk of how things are proven to work. You can't change human nature just because you would like to, and you haven't even addressed the fact that violence increases at high population densities.

You are one of them, now what?

I don't think so.

Seven billion people ? Do the math for God's sake. We've run out of Oil, that's according to Exxon / Mobil executives, that's the reason for the high price's of everything. Oil is considered a diminished resource.

Nope there is enough oil in North Dakota alone to supply current global demand for the next 300 years... The prices are an issue of currency manipulation.

I don't want to be unkind, but you're as dumb as rock if you believe that. You're obviously not much on science or reality for that matter. That's "Shale Oil." Now run along and do some research.

I've known and studied it since 1976. It's the most rapidly depleting resource on the planet. You obviously didn't study the official Government reports.

Yes, I have read extensively about a grouping of oil reserves that stretch eastward from Utah into Colorado and Wyoming, North Dakota and then all the way North into Saskatchewan, while most people discount many portions of these reserves due to the high content of sulphur which imply that it is not counted as sweet brent crude, our (1980's) modern refineries actually obtain higher yields from high sulphur crude, the actual problem effecting oil price is market speculation and manipulation as many oil industry economists would put market equilibrium for production of a barrel of oil at $12.00, But I do not want to get sidetracked by the oil trade, just as you probably would not like to be sidetracked by the dichotomy of your views and your choice of icons, Tesla... Your opinions of overpopulation are based upon errant perspectives of market diseconomies and deliberate and errant engineered barriers to entry..

Once prices get sufficiently high, a backstop technology will emerge.

There is NO "backstop" technology. Research the method used to fracture the shale. There is NO 300 year supply. there is 10,000 year supply of Natural Gas under the states of Louisiana and Arkansas. People don't know about that. Oil companies don't want that disclosed. Have a nice day.