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Originally Posted by willravel
I think you may be the first person in recent years to call overpopulation a myth.
1750......790 billion
1800......980 billion
1850...1.260 billion
1900...1.650 billion
1950...2.555 billion
2000...6.080 billion
October 2012 we should reach 7 billion. The World Bank (an ultra-conservative institution) has estimated that the human population won't stabilize until about 12.4 billion. The UN estimates 14 billion.
The earth is finite. It's ability to supply food, water and other resources has a definite limit. It's ability to accept waste is finite. Unless you've got verifiable statistics you literally find yourself all alone on this one.
/threadjack
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i don't think that there were 790 billion people in the 1750's, i assume you meant millions.
and I too think that the overpopulation is as much a myth as any other "sky is falling" idea.
the earth will still be here, spin and revolve around the sun. the question egotistically wondered is if humans are going to be part of that equation for much longer. Based on the empirical evidence that the earth has been here for millions of years, we're not cut out for it.
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