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World population nears 7 billion: Can we handle it?
MSN ^ | 10/17/2011 | David Crary AP

Posted on 10/17/2011 2:05:33 PM PDT by sodpoodle

She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay required fees.

"I regret to have made all those children," says Godelive Ndageramiwe. "If I were to start over, I would only make two or three."

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By the time Ndageramiwe's ninth child arrives, and any further members of the Kasadha clan, the world's population will have passed a momentous milestone. As of Oct. 31, according to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people sharing Earth's land and resources.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: malthusianparanoia; population; prolife
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Long ago, there was an FR discussion thread on this topic - thought it was already 16 billion - equal to all the humans that had ever been born since recorded history.

The answer of course, is abstinence or contraception. Not abortion that the developed nations are imposing on third worlders.

1 posted on 10/17/2011 2:05:38 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Apparently the only solution is to ship them all here.


2 posted on 10/17/2011 2:09:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
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“I regret to have made all those children,” says Godelive Ndageramiwe.

...made?! Does she have a magic pottery wheel?


3 posted on 10/17/2011 2:09:41 PM PDT by albie
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To: sodpoodle

yeah! agenda 21 they already have plans.


4 posted on 10/17/2011 2:10:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: sodpoodle
"I regret to have made all those children," says Godelive Ndageramiwe. "If I were to start over, I would only make two or three."

Good little disciple of Hillary.

The answer of course, is abstinence or contraception. Not abortion that the developed nations are imposing on third worlders.

Cousin of the disciple.

Human beings are not chattel and are the source of prosperity in the most comprehensive use of the word - not a hindrance.

Gawd, how can people be so f(((*g stupid?

5 posted on 10/17/2011 2:11:46 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: sodpoodle
Get rid of the Muslims, Communists, and "liberals," and we'll come out okay.

ML/NJ

6 posted on 10/17/2011 2:13:05 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: sodpoodle

UN population estimates from wikipedia. Not sure what they expect to happen with that green line.

7 posted on 10/17/2011 2:13:51 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Um, er, how did we “handle” population when it was at a billion people in 1900? How did mother earth EVER survive? Gosh life was just peachy for the average person back then.


8 posted on 10/17/2011 2:15:51 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: albie

That she regards her children as a burden is the tragedy.

My grandparents had 10 children and supported them (frugally) on a farm laborer’s wages. They were blessed with good health, the work ethic and faith in God. They lived in circumstance that, today, would be described as poverty. They took no charity, welfare or free services. Perhaps they bartered vegetables, eggs and chickens - but they were never hungry - physically or spiritually.


9 posted on 10/17/2011 2:16:17 PM PDT by sodpoodle (God is ignoring me - because He is watching you)
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To: the invisib1e hand

How? Because it’s so easy to be that way.


10 posted on 10/17/2011 2:16:51 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I'm sticking with Herman. No more second terms!)
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To: sodpoodle

Damn, it seems like a second ago it was 6 bill now it’s 7? Ok, who’s doing all the screwing?


11 posted on 10/17/2011 2:18:43 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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To: P.O.E.

That’s actually optimistic. The green line assumes that the present trend of declining birthrates continues, and that those nations that are under 2.1 will come back up to that level.

There are already fewer children born today worldwide than were vorn back in 2000. Population is only growing because people are living longer, not because people are having more children.

First time I believe in human history that fewer children have been born. Ever.


12 posted on 10/17/2011 2:22:53 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: P.O.E.

Thanks for the chart.

As for the green line - prediction of war and/or pestilence?

Wonder if there is a chart showing the bubonic plague and other periods when the population was decimated? Such a chart would surely show a subsequent upswing (i.e. boomers). The human race, like other species compensates for high birth and death rates; does it not?


13 posted on 10/17/2011 2:23:01 PM PDT by sodpoodle (God is ignoring me - because He is watching you)
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UN population estimates from wikipedia. Not sure what they expect to happen with that green line.

Simple, something causes the transportation system to break down. We used to live where the food was. Now we live in places like LA and Las Vegas where the weather is nice, but you can't grow food. If you get a big war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi that takes out all big oil fields. That causes oil to go to $300 a barrel. Then the trucks and trains stop running and food stops moving.

In the US it would be bad. Like riots and cities burning bad. But we have a lot of food near to hand and we have assets to trade for oil. In the third world where they are on meal from starvation in good times you could see millions die off.
14 posted on 10/17/2011 2:23:18 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: sodpoodle

Not to worry. In a hundred years they’ll all be dead anyway. Well most of them. The first recorded billion population was in 1804 but I read somewhere it was 1839.


15 posted on 10/17/2011 2:25:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse.)
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To: sodpoodle

You say the answer is contraception - are you a Malthusian leftist?

The Catholic Church founded by Christ makes it clear that artificial contraception is gravely immoral.


16 posted on 10/17/2011 2:31:05 PM PDT by impimp
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No, it’s actually an optimistic projection, that merely assumes that the present rate of declining birth rates continues, and that the nations that are already declining, have birthrates that rise back up to 2.1

There’s nothing to support this rise, which isn’t observed anywhere in the world.

Without this optimistic assumption, I believe it’s 2030 that worldwide population begins to decline.


17 posted on 10/17/2011 2:33:22 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: GonzoGOP; P.O.E.

Waiting for the Global Warming goobers to jump on this one!!!


18 posted on 10/17/2011 2:35:37 PM PDT by sodpoodle (God is ignoring me - because He is watching you)
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To: sodpoodle

Nothing that World War III won’t cure.


19 posted on 10/17/2011 2:42:38 PM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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Waiting for the Global Warming goobers to jump on this one!!!

Global warming, if it were to actually happen, would open up more farmland in Canada and Siberia than it destroys. A warmer Earth could support a much larger population. Of course that doesn't go along with AGW narrative.

Now an Ice Age, that could whack a whole lot of people. I mean when a mile thick glacier rolls over New York and Chicago, and LA finds itself miles inland that is just going to play heck with the house prices.
20 posted on 10/17/2011 2:42:49 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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