The world at seven billion! (living, health, population)

[InsaneTraveler]

Cultures that value education, hard work, and humanism have had sub-replacement birth rates since the 70s. The population only grows because of the stupid people of the world breeding. I can't wait to see what the world is like mid-century, when one out of three people on Earth will be African.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by InsaneTraveler

Cultures that value education, hard work, and humanism have had sub-replacement birth rates since the 70s. The population only grows because of the stupid people of the world breeding. I can't wait to see what the world is like mid-century, when one out of three people on Earth will be African.

Every culture values education, hard work and humanism, those are not the privileged sentiments bestowed you and your country club suburb by a benign and loving deity. Unfortunately, they are not fruit that can be picked up off the ground under a tree. Education requires teachers and administrators who need food and shelter, and their pupils need transport to the schools. Hard work is regularly done in the third world, to a degree that people in the west can't even visualize. Like planting rice and mining tin. Try it sometime. Humanism is a great deal more widely practiced in the third world, than in a country that has two million men rotting away in barbaric prison cells.

Stupid people? Go to the Kahalari desert and stand next to a tribesman at the starting line, and at 1-2-3-go, you both head out in the desert and using your bare hands, bring back food for the village. Let's see who is stupid.

[elnina]

The human population of the world cannot keep growing exponentially forever. It is simply not possible. Human population is doubling every 40 years. Could we actually double the world carrying capacity?
That would mean that we would have to double all resources to accommodate about 13 billion people between 2004 and 2044. As the population increases, more and more people will grow up ignorant, uneducated and unemployed.
Something will stop the population explosion. It could be natural disaster, epidemic disease, famine, nuclear war, birth control or any combination of it.

[foadi]

Originally Posted by elnina

The human population of the world cannot keep growing exponentially forever. It is simply not possible. Human population is doubling every 40 years. Could we actually double the world carrying capacity?

yes. it's happened before. could easily continue happening. it's not like carrying capacity is some static number. with improved infrastructure and technology, carrying capacity increases. otherwise we would have experienced a malthusian disaster before any of us were even born and earths population would have peaked over a century ago.

Originally Posted by elnina

That would mean that we would have to double all resources to accommodate about 13 billion people between 2004 and 2044. As the population increases, more and more people will grow up ignorant, uneducated and unemployed.

you also have more and more people to put their minds together and solve these problems. resources are not a problem, the human mind is an infinite resource.

[LRUA]

Seven Billion!

Am I the only one that thinks the world's population is growing too fast?

I could be wrong but wasn't the world's population only 1 billion in 1900?

[foadi]

Originally Posted by LRUA

Seven Billion!

Am I the only one that thinks the world's population is growing too fast?

I could be wrong but wasn't the world's population only 1 billion in 1900?

1.6 billion

i think it's disgusting when people say the global population has grown too fast in the last century. birth rates have actually declined. what's driving the growth is increased life expectancies, quality of life, disease control, decline of infant mortality, etc. you'd think people would consider this a good thing.

if you want t die of some easily curable disease at 30 be my guest, but that doesn't give you the right to force it on everyone else.

[Baldrick]

Originally Posted by LRUA

Seven Billion!

Am I the only one that thinks the world's population is growing too fast?

I could be wrong but wasn't the world's population only 1 billion in 1900?

More people are kept alive that would have died due to disease and malnutrition, people with money wanting to help the impoverished with donations to charitable and worthy organisations.

Better agricultural methods, fewer wars between industrialised nations, better transportation to get supplies to those in need faster, greater life expectancy, fewer infant mortalities, better healthcare so people that would have died in industrialised countries now live and so on and so forth.

There is a 'cure' for these issues of course, though many seem unwilling to offer themselves and their families to assist in enacting it. It takes a special kind of person to sacrifice all they love for the 'greater good'.

How does it go? Oh yes, "you first".

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by foadi

1.6 billion

i think it's disgusting when people say the global population has grown too fast in the last century. birth rates have actually declined. what's driving the growth is increased life expectancies, quality of life, disease control, decline of infant mortality, etc. you'd think people would consider this a good thing.

if you want t die of some easily curable disease at 30 be my guest, but that doesn't give you the right to force it on everyone else.

In the entire world? Are you sure about that?

[foadi]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

In the entire world? Are you sure about that?

i think you would be hard pressed to find a single country with higher fertility rates today compared to 100 years ago.

[callmemaybe]

I'm actually writing a book that has a genocide in the name of saving the planet from overpopulation in the background.