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".

Thanks for sharing.

unless they know something we don't :winkwink:

Nature will sort it out eventually

Their projections are based on numbers that go further back than 100 years i'm sure. At least if they have a chance at being legitimate anyway.

Like culling?

I know that I am a worst-case-scenerio kind of person (progammer), so I hope that the stats are correct.

Believe me when I tell you,

there will be a legal limit to how many children you can have, worldwide.

Consider China ahead of it's time.

As it stands, there is no possible way to comfortably sustain 7 billion people without the introduction of "game changing" technologies. We either have to stop eating meat, or start eating bugs.

Major changes in our perspective/reality will be at our doorstep sooner than later.

I've read a lot about population and "potential over population". I think in the next fifty years it's gonna get crowded.

I think about this when I'm running. I see a time when we all have to live underground.

7 billion people and not one buys from my affiliate links....

Tight shits.

This has been in the back of my mind for a long time. If the Catholic Church endorsed birth control, that would help a ton. I'm glad I'm alive now...cause with, say, 14 billion pople on this planet and resources tapped, it's gonna be a hell hole.

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yep... I already feel sorry for my grandchildren, and actually this might be a reason for me not to produce children...

Yep pretty crazy stuff. Beginning of time to 1950: 2.5 billion

Almost triples in 60 years to 7.0 billion in 2010.

Doing the math it will soon be a billion a year. Prob within 150 years at this rate it hits a billion a month. Then soon a billion a week.. billion a day.

So yeah, changes are coming for future gens.

9 million will die before Feb. I'm not going to reproduce. Man kind is fucking my earth up.

but make no mistake...the fact that we might not reproduce.... doesn't mean we do not like to fuck.... no.... we like!!!! :1orglaugh

and all of it will be in a few urban centers. don't like it? don't live in the ant hill. move somewhere quiet and isolated.

Been a while since Geography class and forgot the US was higher than you might think. Of course the first two are 1/3 the population.

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/world-p...by-country.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

For their land area, Nigeria and Pakistan are getting crowded. Japan and Vietnam are already very crowded.

Countries with large-scale population DECLINE: former Soviet Republics and Eastern European countries.

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/russian-pop-decline.jpg

"One of many houses that have fallen into disrepair near the village of Dalekushi, Russia, July 21, 2009.

Russia as a whole lost 12.3 million people from 1992 to 2008"

Nobody Home: The Countries Where Population Is on the Decline
http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...097841,00.html

With 7 billion people you could still fit the entire world population into Alaska giving every person 2000 square feet of space.

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.

space is not the biggest problem...

water, food, energy, those are the problems...

Aren't you aware that this already is a very big problem for millions of people??? Where have you been hiding?

Good point. There is a lot of room out there in actuality.

Just certain cities are where it is bad.

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/world-p...on-by-city.jpg

A lot of population around Southeast Asia and China.

NYC is only 1/15th as dense as Bombay by area.

Tokyo is 3 times more dense than NYC.
Mexico City is 5 times more dense than NYC.
Manilla is 7 times more dense than NYC.
Bogota is 9 times more dense than NYC.

Reminded me of this awesome video.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Clean water and food is a problem in 3rd world countries, if the population was cut in half that wouldn't solve the problem.

If the population of New York tripled over the next 2 years the opposite would be true, there would still be clean water, food and energy.

That's an unfortunate reality, and I do believe in population control in areas like that because there is no end in sight and more population just compounds the problem that's existed for centuries there.

Agreed, I remember reading that fish would become virtually extinct in the next few decades due to the excessive fishing and overconsumption of seafood by humans. In turn, there would be a significant domino effect impacting other species, from the collapse of the available seafood supply. Most of the water in the world is heavily polluted and that will only get worse with increased worldwide manufacturing and population growth. The supply of fossil fuels like oil is expected to run out in about 30 years. Unless, there is a dramatic shift to renewable energy sources like solar and nuclear, future generations are going to be fucked.

Dont worry Bill Gates will get it down by quite a few billion.

The Population of the United States

Year Population (in millions)

1815 8.3

1825 11.0

1835 14.7

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/crockett.jpg

Davy Crockett

1845 19.7

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/danielboone1.jpg

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/danielboone.jpg

Daniel Boone

1855 26.7

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/pinkert...mcclernand.jpg

Pinkerton, Lincoln, McClernand

1865 35.2

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/jessejames.jpg

Jesse James

1875 44.4

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/BillHickok-2-500.jpg

Wild Bill Hickok

1885 55.9

November 1900, in John Swartz?s "Swartz View Studio" at 705 Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas.

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/wildbunch.jpg

l-r
Harry Longabaugh aka The Sundance Kid
Will Carver
Ben Kilpatrick aka The Tall Texan
Harvey Logan aka Kid Curry
Robert Leroy Parker aka Butch Cassidy

1895 68.9

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/batmas.jpg

Bat Masterson

Original photograph of the "Dodge City Peace Commission" in June 1883.

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/peacecombig.jpg

Front (l-r), Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown.
Back (l-r), W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B. Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon.

All rights reserved. Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, Kansas.

1905 83.2

1915 98.8

1925 114.2

1935 127.1

1945 140.1

1955 164.0

1965 190.9

1975 214.3

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/bd8.jpg

baddog :1orglaugh

2011 312.6

American characters picked at random.

Is there anything better EVER than the old wild west guys. Incl baddog. :)

agreed, and than it doesn't matter if you live in Alaska, Beverly Hills, Australia.... because either way you're fucked!!!

not to mention this all leads to massive protests (think OWS is big... lol)
, civil wars and of course real nasty wars like never seen before... yeah, the future looks good!

you really believe water and food is only a 3rd world country problem? Yes it is at the moment, so I guess we are lucky now... but don't you think this won't be a problem in the US in the future??

In a few decades the whole world will experience these problem...

For the majority in 3rd world countries, and impoverished, yes. Poor people will always have that issue, how is that a population problem?

Like I said, cut the population in half and those people will still be impoverished without food or access to clean water.

HPV vaccine that fucks up fertility will stop growth. The other day they started recommending it for all boys too.

/conspiracy