To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:51:47 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] That Overpopulation Problem
From: Ron Kean <ronkean at juno.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From 1950 to 2010, the birth rate fell persistently from 3.7% to 1.9%,
while population rose from 2.5B to 6.8B, and the world birth rate is
projected to continue to fall.  Population will fall when the death rate
exceeds the birth rate.  That is already happening in some countries,
e.g. Japan.  The extinction of the Japanese is projected here

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/11/lack-babies-could-mean-extinction
-japanese-people/  .

On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:53:59 -0500 mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> writes:
> 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.
> --- end excerpt ---
>
>
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/world_popu
lation_may_actually_start_declining_not_exploding.html>
>
>         mark
>
> --
>   Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we use the
> ones we
> have?
>
>
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