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.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Based on my random daily sampling of people I interact with, that would mean that about 1,400,000,000 complete morons inhabit the earth.
Based on my random daily sampling of people I interact with, that would mean that about 1,400,000,000 complete morons inhabit the earth.
That, and "Professors who force their students to buy their wildly overpriced textbooks" control.
My husband has tried to educate our daughters on the foolishness of these fads that the doomsayers always come up with. I dismissed the "global warming" bs immediately as a sham. Why, because I am now old enought to have gone from the "global cooling -- we are all gonna die!!!" to the, "global warming -- we are all gonna die!!!". Neither was true and I have come to believe that we can do nothing about weather patterns and perhaps we should worry about things we can do something about.
Anyway, I sent this article today to my hubby and he responded that he couldn't believe that he was ever so gullible to have bought that nonsense. I think that if you live long enough you begin to recognize the pattern of these grifters.
It also doesn't help that they have looked at enough data recently to figure out that the Earth hasn't "warmed" for more than 16 years. Unfortunately, with liberals, truth is not something that they like to deal in.
I have a great way to reduce stress on food, water and energy that is much better. Abolish the Federal right to write bad checks. The EPA would dry up and blow away like a tumbleweed, and farmers could farm again without mountains of paperwork.
That sure isn’t true.
We will be contributing to the food shortage in the future because of our new “Food Safety Act” that will lower production and raise prices, by our governments design to insure that all our savings,investments, and resources are exhausted and we too will become a third world country looking to the new world government to take care of us.
Capitalism works. Everywhere it is put into practice.
When the peasants of India were given the means to become more productive (access to markets, more efficient means to planting, harvesting and transporting the crops, sufficient access to credit so the operations could get under way), India as a food producer blossomed. And it could come to every part of the world, Haiti included, if these or similar opportunities were presented.
But first, there would have to be an attitude adjustment for the “planners” and their dogma as it relates to availability of resources. Artificial scarcities only benefit a very few, at the expense of the many.
Folks,
This is the Slate article I referred to in the post about glowbaloney warming causing people to become Hobbit sized.
Welp, there go the libs again. Meanwhile, the population growth of the majority, if not all, western countries is below replacement level, as is it in South Korea and Japan.
Prediction from this trend seems plausible — except for the Muslims.
Thanks GreyFriar.
It’s quite possible that the book had an influence on the world.
Thank you. We could use more characters for keywords.
Populations are committing cultural suicide... the good thing for liberals is they’ll be able to have that ‘brown country’ they all speak of so lovingly - here and in Europe.
Thanks neverdem. The population increased sevenfold in about a century, and the same kinds of Malthusian BS continues to be used to manipulate the political outcomes.
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