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Old 03-19-2015, 06:45 AM
 
Location: Billings, MT
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http://news.yahoo.com/global-populat...911881--sector.

Seems to me it is nothing new, either.
Haven't we known for years that there are just too many people on this ball of rock and mud?
Hasn't there been study after study showing that overpopulation is the biggest crisis humanity faces?
WHY, then, has that KNOWN fact been shoved under the rug in favor of repeated warnings about the climate changing (which, of course, it does, no matter what mankind does)?
So, now, after another new study, overpopulation suddenly is newsworthy again?
BAH, HUMBUG!
crisis du jour!
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Old 03-19-2015, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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if you believe news coming from yahoo lately then you might as well take the onion and super market tabloids seriously.


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http://news.yahoo.com/global-populat...911881--sector.

Seems to me it is nothing new, either.
Haven't we known for years that there are just too many people on this ball of rock and mud?
Hasn't there been study after study showing that overpopulation is the biggest crisis humanity faces?
WHY, then, has that KNOWN fact been shoved under the rug in favor of repeated warnings about the climate changing (which, of course, it does, no matter what mankind does)?
So, now, after another new study, overpopulation suddenly is newsworthy again?
BAH, HUMBUG!
crisis du jour!
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Old 03-19-2015, 07:03 AM
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Location: Florida
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http://www.nature.com/scientificamer...th0609-22.html
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Old 03-19-2015, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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So, are you saying we force women to have abortions after their first child? I thought I read several years ago that people in the US are having LESS children. Which I tend to believe, often I've heard my grandparents talk over the years how growing up it was not unusual for a family to consist of 5, 6, or even 10 kids. Today, that it is very rare. Is the over-population coming from third world countries?
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Old 03-19-2015, 07:11 AM
bUU
 
Location: Florida
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Current World Population Growth Rate
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Old 03-19-2015, 05:15 PM
 
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So, are you saying we force women to have abortions after their first child? I thought I read several years ago that people in the US are having LESS children. Which I tend to believe, often I've heard my grandparents talk over the years how growing up it was not unusual for a family to consist of 5, 6, or even 10 kids. Today, that it is very rare. Is the over-population coming from third world countries?
China tried it, forced families to drown girls in favor of boys.
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Old 03-19-2015, 05:25 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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China tried it, forced families to drown girls in favor of boys.

That isn't all the consequences that have occurred.

There are not enough young, to pay for the old, so the old are euthanized, if the pain is too great...
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Old 03-19-2015, 05:56 PM
 
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Even Mother Nature despises neo-Malthusian misanthropists:

Vast freshwater reserves found beneath the oceans
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Old 03-19-2015, 06:02 PM
 
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last updated 6 years ago.

fun fact, in 1963 it was 2.1%, today? 1.2%

So the growth rate is falling slowly.
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Old 03-19-2015, 06:20 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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It's a self-correcting problem: as more people die from dehydration, more fresh water will be available for those that survive. At some point equilibrium is reached.
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