http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/halloween-fright-7-billion-humans#charts http://earthsky.org/human-world/joel-cohen-top-10-key-population-trends-on-earth-with-7-billion "October 31, 2011 marks a milestone in global population: 7 billion humans. That’s according to projections by the United Nations. One billion additional people have joined humanity in just the past 12 years. Previously, humanity took until year 1800 to reach its first billion people. EarthSky interviewed demographer Joel Cohen, professor of populations and head of the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York. He explained the top 10 population trends in a world with 7 billion inhabitants. 1. One billion people are hungry, and 1 billion are obese. Cohen said this is the most important thing people should know about the population milestone of 7 billion. Too too many people on Earth today live without knowing where their next meal will come from. 2. Three billion people live on two dollars a day. 8. Seniors now outnumber toddlers, and this trend will continue to increase." "It took about 200,000 years for modern humans to reach the 1 billion mark in 1805, but then suddenly there were 2 billion of us in 1927, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974 and 5 billion in 1987. The 6 billion mark came in 1999, and 8 billion is due around 2025. We're widely expected to hit 10 billion before the end of this century. Since Earth has a limited supply of important things like freshwater, phosphorus and farmland, it seems unlikely this trend can go on forever. But there's little agreement on how many people is too many, and even less agreement on what — if anything — should be done." This may be D&D, but I have Malthusian fears about sustainability and pollution. It's amazing when you look at charts to see the effects of the Ind Rev. and the Green Revolution.
8. Seniors now outnumber toddlers, and this trend will continue to increase. 10. More than half of women today have fewer children than the number needed to replace themselves and their partner. These indicate the population will decrease over the next 40 years. The thing about humans is that the wars (after effects) and poverty causes spikes in population and, peace and posterity causes decreases. Here's to world peace.
Biggest problem is that women in the developing world and third world have a lot of children. On the news they had a women in Nambia, she had four kids she could barely afford to clothe or feed. She plans on having at least three more.
in countries like that, kids are their social security. Once they get older they work around the house, farm or get other jobs to help with money
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I understand if they were farmers, but they had just moved to an already crowded city. Those kids won't be helping much if there's no farm work and they can't afford school.
There is a dude at work with a mess of kids who puts the "please do not print this email, save the trees, blah blah" in his footer. Um, yeah. Your very American kids (the most consumptive of resources) will have less impact on resources and pollution than me printing this email? Okay, sure. <cntrl-P>
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"I have news for you" "What's up?" "You passed the Lifeguard test!" "YESS!!! " "You can now be a lifeguard... under cone condition, though." "What is it?" "You have to be a lifeguard of this here pool:" Spoiler :grin:
or access to condom, probably. I don't think it's widely available in some countries. Especially in Catholic countries.
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India's population growth rate is like 3 times of China's in recent years. It could still be higher, as their current infant/maternal mortality rate is really high when compared to China's.
