He was so wrong. New technologies on agriculture and free market is making the poverty decrease by the year.Today we have more people in the world, and far less poor people, and far more famine than in the 90's (before nag me, check the facts please). Today, obesity is a much bigger problem than starvation.

Too many gdamn useless greedy destructive humans on this planet

Dude dropped so many truth bombs humanity died within a century from then.

He is wrong, there's about one hectare of good land in a good climate for every person. Do the math. It's just that you're not supposed to realise that all the land has been taken away from the people many many many generations ago.

Spoken like a true eugenicist. I read all of his books but never understood how evil his real ¨religion¨of eugenics. I bet he was great friends of Margaret Sanger. He´d be a member of the WEF serving as an enemy of humanity.

He and others like him were dead wrong. Advances in agriculture and sanitation have improved the standard of living across the board. The problem modern societies are facing is population collapse. This is especially true in the most advanced societies - USA, Japan,and European countries. The population of the older generations is too high for the current birth rate. I have a lot of respect for Asimov, and agreed with him when he said this, but if he were alive today, looking at the data that we have available, he would not be saying the same thing.

There's only too many people for one planet. Time to get off, theres plenty more.

A wise man.

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Weird thing is azmov died from aids. He was a far left secular jew. Pro feminism, humanist, atheist, pro homosexuility, pro population control 🤔 kept his aids secret till his death. Got it supposedly from a blood transfusion in 83

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Yes, being a factory worker is so much more fulfilling a vocation for women. Sad that he sold out to the overpopulation propaganda.

He's right about population but since woman have had more control, the world has certainly declined.

2:26 cold af

Remember, they couldn’t tolerate the Georgia Guidestones to exists

He’s like if Bernie Sanders wrote science fiction

Lies, they can distribute enough weapons of war like its noth8n…. Peace and life are Not Profitable… 😉

Omg that is pire clear reality. All the questions addressed are always taboo leading to third world philosophies to make people busy and out from their future. Tittytainment

Over population growth will send humans to live below the earth. At that time humans will transform into humanoid life, half biological half technological. Food will become light just like plants of agriculture for energy plus other applications. Birth of life will become selective by breed the best of class from dead embryonic stem cells. Humans will develop cities that will float in the stratosphere. The order of the quest is eternal life or life extension just like the bible mentions of man living to 1000 yrs old.

"We can't raise the whole world to the standard of living in the United States," exactly.

I agree with Asimov on most and to some degree all he had to say. I followed and read Asimov my entire adult life (from at least 11-years old when I started reading sci-fi). However I am bothered by the brutal methods that might be applied to control births or to maintain a population at a certain level. Abortion, forced contraception, moving populations around without the populations being affected, war and genocides, etc. I am sure that Asimov, despite being a 'liberal', would not approve of brutal methods either. But as a society, we must be highly aware yet highly conscious of population

He's right, but population growth is already beginning to reverse itself.

In my youth I thought that Asimov was a very smart person... but the more mature I came to be... the more I realize that Asimov was a "savant" imbecile... like most people from the modern academic environment! What a shame and what a waste for a human soul...

He was wrong on this one

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Overpopulation is, and has been the root cause of the worlds major problems: wars, famine, crime, drought, global warming, homelessness, starvation. Not so satirically, the world will soon boil down to Trader Joe's customers and the starving people of Namibia, et. al.

Where can I find this level of wisdom nowadays? We need more brains like Asimov's

Now the problem is that population will diminish sharply. Look at Italy, Japan, Rússia, South Korea, Bulgária...

1:04 we have resources, lack of sharing of resources,but issue is capitalism,not overpopulation So he is wrong categorically 😂

Asimov was a very smart guy, but he was wrong on this. China controlled their population, now they are in big trouble. European countries are offering women incentives to have more children!. South Korea is losing population rapidly, economies need people, old people need young people to support them.

As a woman - everything he's saying is true.

I’m so disappointed by his view, he doesn’t believe in the future that he created in his writings

Thank you Sir Asimov.

I like Issac Asimov, but he is wrong here. The Earth can support even more people. There are a few problems with this type of thinking. It forgets that technology is constantly advancing, and making things better. For example at the beginning of the 20th century, with 1.6 billion people, a vast majority were living in absolute poverty. (94% under $2 a day. ) By 1980 that number dropped to 44%. (World Bank, Less than $1.90.) Sorry the numbers don't exactly match up, but they are taken from different sources, but the same chart. But they are adjusted for inflation. The World Bank data starts in 1980 (or 81) and by 2015 was projected to drop to 9.6%. But by 2018 it had dropped to 8.3%. The reason I know that number is because that was also the year that half the world's population became middle class, as defined by the Brooking's Institute. (World definition of $11 to $110, 2018 dollar.) People, even scientists, seem to have a problem with seeing how big the Earth actually is. Resources are immense. They might be harder to get to, but technology makes that problem moot. We were supposed to run out of oil by now, yet we have massive resources. The only issues are political. With fracking there are now enough resources for well over 200 years. People also forget that this is a 3-dimensional world. You stack people, and they take up a lot less space. Hydroponics means growing operations can condense a large plot of land into a building. A great book that discusses this a little, though it isn't exactly focused on this, is The Beginning of Infinity by physicist David Deutsch. The idea is that we are at just the beginning of what science can do, and always will be just at the beginning. Even Michio Kaku discusses the coming "abundance" due to advances in science. Anyway, the world population growth peaked in 1964 with 2.24% growth and has been dropping ever since. Below 2% since 1972, below 1.5% since 1994, and below 1% since 2020. Currently 0.88%. (2023)

This is rubbish. Elon Musk has highlighted that population decline is the main concern. And our resources are more than enough to sustain a vastly larger population. I understand the sentiment of the 1950s which feared overpopulation due to a fertility rate of 6+ in many places around the world. But this interview seems to be around 1988, since Asimov called 2000 “only 12 years away”. By 1988, fertility was already at below 3.5 in most of the world and declining. And anyone in 1988 who stared at a population pyramid would’ve seen the writing on the wall. Japan was already below replacement rate in 1990. The only reason Japan’s population increased after 1990 wasn’t because of babies but because of the elderly not dying quick enough. But advancements in longevity has its limits, and now the elderly in Japan are dropping off like flies and their fertility rate is a miserable 1.5, far below the 2.1 replacement level, so they’ve begun their population decline. Population is a very lagging metric. Fertility rate is a better metric that lets you gauge long-term trajectory. Population mixes up babies born with elderly living longer. Japan’s adult diaper sales are now greater than their baby diaper sales. We should ignore the population of the elderly since they’re on a conveyer belt to expiring soon anyways. The population of the under-35 is shrinking and will continue to shrink.

and now the first world is being overrun by the third world and their hordes to children....its too late now

Actually America exploited and looted the world and created that infrastructure and standards. The countries which are considered under developed are the ones scavenged by the countries like America. Globally there is no coordination and harmony but only imperialism and exploitation and loot

At 4:08 "It does not matters if someone dies." hmmm.... we will see.

We did have the resources. Created this civilisation on a base stupid rapping way. They think they are smart. No care for wholestic intelligence natural laws of earth and its inhabitants. They are only smart at getting power over others nothing else. So called intelligence directed in the worst possible way. Psychos.

Overpopulation is a myth to justify all kind of crazy policies

Population explosion first in Asia, then in Africa is the same threat to the world as the global warming (caused by the overpopulation), depleting the Earth resources (caused by the overpopulation), regional wars (caused by the overpopulation), and more. Asimov is right but there is not much the civilization can do now. You cannot put those people back. You cannot isolate the overpopulated countries from the rest of the world. It is too late. Humans will cause an irreversible damage to the planet, and then they will be desparately looking for the way to fix it.

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We now ignore the things we used to know

Isaac were 16 siblings...

Over population is not the main problem. The main problem is over production of unwanted waste per person. The world's main problem is a lack of leadership from the wealthy elite. Developing global government policies in the application of alternative technologies, and in the global adoption of alternative lifestyles. If everyone in the world was a bicycle riding vegan, and lived in a solar powered mud hut. The earth could easily support twenty billion.

as a man i approve this message. when my mother called me and trying to sound excited about my sister third child i respond has my sister lost her mind. Because she was having children with men that were not responsible and i have no children i have to come in as a big brother give a helping hand. I predicted my sister was going to struggle with raising 3 kids alone and I was right. having children and being establish is recipe for poverty there's no getting around it. I'm happy women are becoming more independent and successful.

The limited resource and zero-sum game are only if you look at the world in limited local or regional view. But in real world there are infinite resources. We are only utilizing a small fraction of the earth resources and sun's energy. So in the long run we are talking about millions of years. The limiting factors is the way we are able to innovate and manufacture, to do both of these currently we need more population, the more educated people we have the more likely we will be able to innovate..

Very intelligent man, I love his fiction but I disagree with this stance. He assumes that technology won't allow us to take a greater advantage of the resources we have and transport them to the places that need them.

Asimov (and by proxy Moyers) , in 1988, was an evil man and a servant of the devil, who opposed the generation of children, he clearly hates God the creator and denies the value of big families and meaning of life. OVERPOPULATION IS A MYTH, A LIE!!

Issac asimov was a visionary, but he still couldn't predict the future to know he was wrong. We will provide a quality life for future generations plus us watch and see.