wikilatief--If the world did not experience World War I and II which left tens of millions of people dead, would the earth be overpopulated today?
Over population is inevitable....
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Yes, I personally think overpopulation; will happen without or with war.
I am assuming the questioner originally thought that war stifled overpopulation (?).
And estimate that without a war that resulted in tens of millions of lives, the number of people on earth is far more than now.
But precisely for me, the war was the trigger for overpopulation.
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How come?
We all know that by creating the "OK Boomer" or Baby Boomer.
Born in the 1940s to 1960s. This generation with soaring baby birth rates!
This happened because many World War II veterans came home and made love to their wives and a baby was born.
There were also many women who married young at that time. In the US, the birth rate has jumped dramatically to 65 million in just 20 years.
At that time, the government campaigned for many children, lots of luck. Women are encouraged to get pregnant.
That is not to mention the statistics in Japan, France and others.
Why have so many children?
Maybe because the war was over, the world was safe. So the way humans put it at that time was with childbearing.
Because during the war, men were sent to the battlefield. Tired of facing warfare on the battlefield. They need happiness and entertainment.
Not only war. Even pandemics / epidemics cannot contain the population.
For example, the Corona outbreak.
Many people died, right? But because of the #stayathome program, many married couples who get bored do just that.
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The husband and wife also do not use condoms. Then his wife got pregnant. I used another example. Corona is still so hot, there aren't many statistics.
Spanish flu in 1918. The deadliest flu medicine ever in history, right? But in 1920, there was also a baby boom phenomenon.
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One of them is in Norway, the research has been done. Why was research done in Norway? because that country is a neutral country.
Don't go to war. But the country has had the Spanish flu outbreak. In 1918–1919, the death rate shot up.
Husband and wife become suspicious of each other. Many cases of abortion. Pregnant women catch flu, die with babies.
But in the 1920s after the plague ended, pregnancies went up dramatically. Many lost their children during the plague. Then make many more.
In order not to be too long, I will end my explanation here
In essence, according to research, authoritarian means such as China issuing a one-child policy do not even work to control population size.
Instead, it creates new problems right; inequality of men and women. There are more men than women.
Will the earth be overpopulated at this time? If the world didn't experience world wars 1 and 2