At present there are 6 billion people on this earth. It is estimated that by 2015 there will be 7 billion and that by 2030 there will be 9 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH.
I have serious reservations as to the ability of mother earth to support such a population :
* How will the food supply possibly support that many people? Will we come up with some new technology to enhance our ability to provide it or will we wage war after war to take the supply of others?
* How will the refuse and waste disposal and sewage treatment for so many people be accomplished? Will we be overrun in garbage and excrement or will we find some magic technology to eliminate it all?
* Our current energy supply cannot possibly support all those people. Are we going to fight for the energy we need or will we find some new exotic energy source to solve the problem? Maybe it is all about the oil ...
Your Thoughts?
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/200 ... 2opi6.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_la ... ental.htmlIf fertility stayed at the same level it is now, the world population would be 134 trillion people in 300 years.
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2121We are already killing the oceans and spoiling the atmosphere. Demographic projections vary widely but it can be conservatively estimated that the global population will approach nine billion by the year 2030. Few believe the planet can carry nine billion without global catastrophe: famine, disease, widespread extinctions that could even include mankind.
The experts point out, however, that even tiny variations from the two-child norm can have huge consequences over the long-term. â??As little as one-quarter of a child under the two-child norm, or one-quarter of a child above the norm, results in a world population ranging from 2.3 billion (in the low variant) to 36.4 billion (in the high variant) by 2300.â?