John B Calhoun Overpopulation

The earth currently fosters approximately 7.4 billion humans which dwell upon about 7.68 billion acres of arable land. That would mean that each person has 1.03 acres of land they could survive on as of 2015. Our population increases by roughly 83 million every year and we lose roughly 25 million acres of land every year, by those calculations in the year 2030 each person will only have .84 of an acre to live on. Taking this into consideration overpopulation poses a real problem, the world’s resources is not infinite and a solution is needed. For those who are still dubious about how serious it is they should take into consideration the rodent experiment of John B Calhoun . In Calhoun’s crowding experiments, researchers created a rat "utopia" where inhabitants were supplied with everything they need, the only thing they lacked was space. The result was a population boom, followed by such severe psychological disruption that the animals died off to extinction. As the pens heaved with animals, one of his assistants described rodent “utopia” as having become “hell” due to the increasing violence between all of rats with nearly no elbow space. The take-home message was that crowding resulted in extreme pathological behaviour – in

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