Posted on 09/19/2014 5:52:15 AM PDT by C19fan
The world population may grow larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, according to a UN-led analysis published Thursday.
That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science.
"The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around seven billion, would go up to nine billion and level off or probably decline," said co-author Adrian Raftery, professor of statistics and of sociology at the University of Washington.
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2100 is a LONG way off.
their estimation may well be as far off.
Subtract one. I’m not hanging around.
The way things are going I think there’s a equal chance it may only be 2 billion by then.
Glad I won’t be here to see it.
Yes it can support 4 billion. What proof do you have that it can’t?
Yes it can support 4 billion. What proof do you have that it can’t?
Won’t happen. A Third World War will take place way before we get to 11 billion. Throw in natural disasters (meteorite, earthquakes, hurricanes, famine, disease, etc.) and legal genocide like universal abortion, euthanasia, etc.
In one hundred years we most likely will have a much less population.
Right.
These predictions have been made for decades and have invariably not panned out.
The USA during the 19th had one of the highest birth rates ever recorded. Were it not for recent immigrants, we’d now be well below replacement. Same for Europe.
A couple of decades ago, the Muslim world had very high birth rates. Today most of these countreis are near and in some cases below the US.
Same with East Asia and Latin America.
There is no logical reason at all to assume that Africa alone will continue to have high birth rates indefinitely.
I won’t be around here to see it...but it could lead to some “amusing” times.
I smell the aroma of Propaganda....in this 2100 Speculative “Report”
This will likely be followed up by the announcement of Expensive Plans being formulated to AID ..these African nations...
There is considerable evidence that world economic systems are collapsing. When this happens, and with no strong peacekeeper on the scene, the world should plunge into a period of war and destruction (if history is any guide).
Population size is largely limited by the level of industrial complexity that a society has achieved (i.e. New York or Tokyo support far greater population density that the hunter-gatherer societies which once roamed the same land).
So my guess is that any world overpopulation problem is self correcting.
Modern society is to blame. Keeping opportunistic disease at bay, in the end, is not possible. Species require culling in order to preserve the strongest genetic material. Modern medicine has permitted inferior genetics to triumph in conditions that wold have otherwise long ago taken many of us. This will not last forever.
I’ll be long gone... It’s immaterial to me.
The superintelligent AI will kill us all.
With the rate at which elites are pumping out the FREE birth control on this planet, seems highly unlikely.
Sure enough:
"More people on Earth will likely exacerbate problems such as climate change
If only climate was as easy to predict as liberal UN-sponsored scientists.
between birth control and the infanticide of abortion....there may be even fewer people on earth iby then....
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