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Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year
MikeChino writes "The UN Population Division just announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion by Halloween 2011. The increase of one billion people in the past 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion total in the early 19th century. In the next 20 years, our population growth is predicted to rise to 8 billion people as our demand for food increases by 50 percent, water by 30 percent and energy by 50 percent." Not everyone finds it to be worrying per se.
Given decreases in TFR, it's possible the world will experience a population decline this century.
The total fertility rate is below replacement level for many countries of the world. The main exception is sub-Saharan Africa.
Most of the Anglo- and Eurosphere is in decline. The US is in decline natively, and only growing due to immigration.
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Suffering and mass death has a lot of precedent in human history. Why do you think it took so long to reach the first billion?
We just have to raise Africa out of poverty? That should be easy right?
Considering it was just last week I saw a report on the news about the refugee camps in Kenya. There is now 500,000 people in those camps. Half a freaking million. Also many of the camps have been around for 20 years. Twenty freaking years. There was a story about people that were BORN in the refugee camps, and are still there as adults!
Am I the only one that sees this and goes "WTF!"
On the whole Africa is one messed up place, between war, famine, corruption, exploitation, genocide, plague, lawlessness, lack of anything infrastructure, education, health care, dictators, racial hatred, etc... the place is about as messed up as a place can possibly be. It has been receiving aid from both countries and individuals for decades and decades and there has even been some UN "interventions" (though not nearly enough in my mind).
Anyway I am not offering up any solutions, as if I had one I would be trying to do something about it. That assumes there are "solutions" to this sort of thing. People have been trying to fix Africa for a long time with no success. The fact that they have so many kids, seems crazy to me (but of course it hard to judge never having been in that situation). So ya, I'm not going to hold my breath for an African solution to population issues.
I suppose when only 40% of India's population (thats over 400 million people!) lives below the international poverty line (thats US$1.25 per day) that they are doing quite fantastic....
.. quite the fucking opposite, asshole. Over 400 million people are pretty much completely fucking destitute in that "doing quite well" country.. if thats "doing quite well", what the fuck does "doing badly" look like?
You are fucking full of shit. The population of India is not "doing quite well these days"
The World Bank, citing estimates made by the World Health Organization, states that "About 49 per cent of the world's underweight children, 34 per cent of the world's stunted children and 46 per cent of the world's wasted children, live in India." Heres a fucking citation.
Your bullshit is the problem with most westerners. You have no fucking idea how bad it is elsewhere, or the scale of the problem. With 400 million fucking people destitute in Inida, it puts all your other complaints about the world to shame. Global warming? Terrorism? Privacy? Put in perspective, and assuming we actually give a shit about making the world a better place with the countless billions of dollars that we are throwing around, the ONLY thing we should be doing is fixing India... until its fixed.
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