Posted on 01/10/2013 1:33:44 PM PST by DYngbld
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.
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I’m moving to a more rural setting soon.
Global Warming didn’t work as a reason for Socialism, so they’re back to overpopulation?
Remember “The Population Bomb” from the 1970s?
We were all supposed to be dead by now from that scare.
I’m tiring of refuting the same B.S. every decade or so.
Well, the U.S. is doing its part by murdering at least 1.2 million Americans every year through the act of abortion.
The world is not over populated.
The countries that are starving are run by liberals.
Birthrates are falling in modernized countries.
If Slate is so worried about “over” population they can just leave.
I recall a time when India had a population of around 400 million, and its people were starving. We routinely exported wheat as foreign aid to India. Although at that time my uncle, who worked for DuPont, watched India dock workers manually pushing wheelbarrows of flour bags from a US freighter over to the other side of the harbor where it was being loaded into a freighter with a hammer & sickle on it.
Today India is a net exporter of wheat. It now has a population in excess of one billion.
Go figure.
Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day!
From one of the best bumper stickers I saw about thirty years ago:
If you think the world is overpopulated why don’t you kill yourself.
The LIB asshats who keep predicting doom in various ways should do the world a favor and off them selves. That might change their prediction...and bring the rest of us some peace.
Only socialists believe the world is overpopulated.
Current trends indicate the rural setting will be coming to you.
How does an educated person still swallow this?
Here’s a guy who was ahead of his time on this who might surprise you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRh5NNiFG0
What horse manure...
Just read the intro to a new college research design text and the publisher or editor (doesn’t say who wrote it) used overpopulation as a means to push their agenda. “The key to population growth lies in the social structures that lead people to have more babies than is needed to perpetuate the human species.”
Instead of gun control, I want professor control.
I have a solution to the problem of overpopulation and minority demographics...increase the budget of Planned Parenthood 10 fold.
I have long been an advocate of populating the moon - what a great place to retire. No bugs (bacteria and viruses would be more easily controlled), very few broken hips, fewer sags and wrinkles.
I had no idea John Lennon favored it, too.
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