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Originally Posted by camperjohn64
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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I don't think we will make it to 2100 without a major pandemic that kills off billions. Whether it's a meteor or new untreatable fast spreading virus, and that's not even considering nuclear holocaust which we all know is possible.
Other than that, there is PLENTY of uninhibited land on this planet. Go drive outside major cities and there is 1,000s of miles of nothing, and that's in the United States alone.
Shanghai already has 4-5 times the population of the biggest cities in the world and they're just fine. We have sometime to go before overpopulation becomes a serious problem.