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Old 10-26-2011, 12:38 PM  
camperjohn64
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7 billion people?

I don't get how the stats could be so far off:

"Officials" say that "10.6 billion people could be living on Earth by 2050 and more than 15 billion in 2100"

WTF?

1910, 1.6 billion
1950, 2.5 billion (a little less than double in 30 years)
1980 4.5 billion (a little less than double in 30 years)
2010 7.0 billion (a little less than double in 30 years)

Are they idiots? Can they not read a graph? By 2040 we will have 13 billion, 25 billion in 2070 and 45 billion in 2100.

Math never lies, and people always underestimate when trying to "adjust" for "factors like this or that".
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