Every 12 Years, Another Billion People

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  1. riku_124

    riku_124 High School Smoker Registered Senior Member

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    at the rate the owrlds going, the world war wil lbe aganst hte islam extreamists, and they wouldnt give a damn using nukes on the "infedels" so we would have to find a way to go to another planet, after we go from world to world, population will no longer be a problem

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    see problem solved, just gotta piss those muslims off......... oh, nvm
     
    riku_124, Jan 17, 2007
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  3. Lord Hillyer

    Lord Hillyer Banned Banned

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    Perhaps nuking only the world's most populous cities, then?
     
    Lord Hillyer, Jan 17, 2007
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  5. Oniw17

    Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    I do't think any type of extremist factions could ever unite to start a world war...they're all too extreme.
     
    Oniw17, Jan 17, 2007
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  7. phonetic

    phonetic stroking my banjo Registered Senior Member

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    All that needs to be done is a bit of lying, well quite a lot of lying.

    Everybody is told to take a week off work by their employers. Nobody turns up to work the next day. During this time all of the factories, offices, buildings, transport are burnt down and any food lying around in warehouses, fields, etc is also burned. This isn't televised. What is televised is a national scale telecommunications outage and acid rain with warnings that everyone should stay inside. Later that evening, the telecommunications places are all burned.

    The next day there is no tv, no shops, buildings, no police, etc. People start to panic, quite a lot kill each other, some decide to live in the woods, but most of us will die off.
     
    phonetic, Jan 17, 2007
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  8. Fraggle Rocker

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    This article is way behind the information curve. These idiots all know it. They keep publishing outdated predictions because they're in the business of scaring people. Frightened people buy more news.

    Five years ago the statistical reductions noted that the second derivative of population had gone negative: the rate of growth was decreasing. The first derivative (the rate of growth itself) is expected to go negative toward the end of this century: the population will start to shrink instead of expanding.

    The population growth rate increased abruptly with the invention of modern medicine late in the 19th century. Within a few decades the heartbreaking infant mortality that had kept population in check was slashed by antibiotics and insecticides. No one realized that people would not automatically start having fewer children just because most of them were suddenly surviving to reproductive age.

    But just because they didn't start immediately doesn't mean that they wouldn't start eventually. Birth rates are falling in the Third World. Where once every family had twelve children it now has eight, eight become five, five become three. This trend is supported by the increase in per capita GDP in many of the world's poorest regions: prosperity is one of the most effective contraceptives. The birth rate in China, where millions of people starved during my lifetime, is now hovering near replacement level as the working poor in China now get plenty to eat and can even afford TV sets. That sure took a big bite out of population predictions. China will never have a population of two billion.

    The 22nd century will see fertility rates drop below replacement level everywhere as they already have in Europe. The immigration that primes the economies and supports the social security systems in Europe and America will wither away.

    If you want to accelerate this process, support organizations that promote education, particularly education of women. We give all of our charity budget to the Central Asia Institute in Bozeman, Montana. They build schools in the Stone Age backwaters of the Middle East, under the condition that they are coeducational or girls-only.

    The key to the future of the human race is educating women.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Jan 17, 2007
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  9. Oniw17

    Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    I'm not disagreeing, but why exactly(I suspect because women control the birth rates)?
     
    Oniw17, Jan 17, 2007
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  10. Lord Hillyer

    Lord Hillyer Banned Banned

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    Great post, Fraggle.
     
    Lord Hillyer, Jan 17, 2007
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  11. draqon

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    so what that billion people die. According to my belief when a person dies his soul is transcended into another person in another life...so it might as well be me dying and reliving...being born again...and being amongst me in different parallells of existence. So its quite allright.

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    draqon, Jan 17, 2007
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  12. John Connellan

    John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    How about targeting the worlds largest cities by dropping a few of these moth*rfu*kers then?!

    Mother of all bombs
     
    John Connellan, Jan 19, 2007
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  13. Genji

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    Let's save that one for Tel Aviv.
     
    Genji, Jan 19, 2007
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  14. Athelwulf

    Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    I do need more exciting room décor...

    First we have to find a world like ours. It will likely not be anywhere within a hundred-lightyear radius.

    Geez, that's a big bomb.
     
    Athelwulf, Feb 5, 2007
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