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The city where I grew up was as I was to later learn, quite a small city. The population there now including the surrounding areas is around 465k people according to Wikipedia.

I often remember going to the city centre on a Saturday and seeing the traffic and large crowds of people. It was usually quite busy on a Saturday, with people going shopping for various things and meeting for lunches and leisurely strolls. Shopping was a popular leisure activity in a country with bad weather.

With so many people around, it used to make you feel quite tired quickly and frustrated. It wasn't until later when I moved to a much larger real capital city where there were so many people, you were literally compressed together when commuting to work, that I realised how small my home city was.

Since then I have visited some of the most densely populated areas on earth. This includes Tokyo, wherein some train stations there would be the equivalent of millions of people passing through there every day. Some trains were synchronized to arrive literally every 2 minutes to bring people to the city for work or other activities. I came to learn that there is no quiet space in Tokyo. The green areas and parks were always full of people. Oh, how I appreciated my sometimes empty parks back home.

I have also travelled to India and was surprised by just how many people there are there. Even in some of the most remote mountains, there were usually some people living in a home nearby. I had expected that outside of the cities there would be lots of empty lands where nobody lived. And there are lots of quieter spots with not so many people, but it was not so empty as I had imagined.

So why do I tell you this?

I tell you this because this is just my own personal experience of some populations around the world. In some places it can seem crowded, in others it can be quiet. But is this evidence of overpopulation?

Before we can talk about something, first we must know and understand what it is. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, Overpopulation means:

the fact of a country or city etc. has too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available there:

[source](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/overpopulation)

If we look at the example of Tokyo. It is probably one of the largest cities and metropolitan areas in the world and supports a population greater than 37 million people according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo). Therefore, if a city as large as Tokyo is supporting its population and has enough food and materials available, is it overpopulated and is there an issue to solve?

So far there doesn't seem to be any shortages of food or materials there. If people want to live in a bigger house then they would need to move outside of Tokyo for sure, because it's expensive. 

Therefore, if a city like Tokyo can support so many people, is the current talk of overpopulation an issue?

If we go back to my introduction, you will see I mentioned that in the smaller city that I grew up in, it felt crowded and very busy, but it wasn't until later that I really experienced crowded and a highly populated city. This means that whether a city or the world is in fact overcrowded is a subjective opinion. To some, it will fill crowded, to others just right. 

When there are no people starving or going without resources, how can we say there is an overpopulated world?

We often hear about a declining birth rate due to increased economic prosperity and people having fewer children than our parents. It is certainly true in my family. My grandparents and parents had a football team compared to just 1 or 2 children if any being the current trend.

[source](https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate#:~:text=As%20of%202020%2C%20the%20U.S.,explained%20by%20changing%20population%20composition.)

How can we have "overpopulation" with a declining birth rate?? 
Something doesn't add up or make any sense.

How are we supposed to know if there are too many of us when we don't even know what we are and why we are here?

**What action is needed to solve the issue?**

Too many people are listening to propaganda from the mainstream media, Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum. Instead, they should listen to George Carlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

That way, we should all stop being so arrogant and listening to people lecturing us to use less resources when they themselves turn up at a [climate summit in an 85 car motorcade](https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/30/biden-drives-through-rome-in-85-car-motorcade-ahead-of-cop26-15513632/).

Thanks for reading.