World Population Grows Beyond 7 Billion

First time accepted submitter assertation writes in with a LA Times feature about the booming world population and the strain it puts on the environment and governments. "After remaining stable for most of human history, the world's population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries."

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Re:Just Stop!

[rgbrenner]

the us native-born reproductive rate is 2.

2.1 is required for the population to stay the same.

The US only has a growing population because of the higher birth rate among immigrants

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#United_States

We're all going to die!

[jeffasselin]

"This natural inequality of the two powers, of population, and of production of the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that appears to me insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society."

Thomas Malthus, 18th century.

People have been saying that the "end is near" since human beings developed speech. None have been right. Ockam's razor and the law of induction tells me they won't be in the future.