Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:53:59 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Some good news, at last: About That Overpopulation Problem
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

And this fool writes as though we're going to die out as a race in the
next 200 years or so....

Excerpt:
The world's seemingly relentless march toward overpopulation achieved a
notable milestone in 2012: Somewhere on the planet, according to U.S.
Census Bureau estimates, the 7 billionth living person came into
existence.

Lucky No. 7,000,000,000 probably celebrated his or her birthday sometime
in March and added to a population that's already stressing the planet's
limited supplies of food, energy, and clean water. Should this trend
continue, as the Los Angeles Times noted in a five-part series marking
the occasion, by midcentury, "living conditions are likely to be bleak
for much of humanity."

A somewhat more arcane milestone, meanwhile, generated no media coverage
at all: It took humankind 13 years to add its 7 billionth. That's longer
than the 12 years it took to add the 6 billionth - the first time in
human history that interval had grown. (The 2 billionth, 3 billionth, 4
billionth, and 5 billionth took 123, 33, 14, and 13 years,
respectively.) In other words, the rate of global population growth has
slowed. And it's expected to keep slowing. Indeed, according to experts'
best estimates, the total population of Earth will stop growing within
the lifespan of people alive today.

And then it will fall.
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<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/world_population_may_actually_start_declining_not_exploding.html>

        mark

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