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World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100
vinces99 writes "A new analysis shows that world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of this century, according to a United Nations report issued June 13. That's about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the previous projection issued in 2011. The change is largely because birth rates in Africa have not declined as quickly as had been expected, according to Adrian Raftery of the University of Washington's Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. The U.N. estimates use statistical methods developed at the center. The current African population is about 1.1 billion and it is now expected to reach 4.2 billion, nearly a fourfold increase, by 2100, Raftery said."
How the hell is the NSA supposed to keep track of all those people?!?!
Unless we can support that much life with food, water and other resources, war for diminishing resources will wipe out enough population before we even get close to that.
let alone 86+ years
That's ok. Thanks to abortion, homosexuality, and selfishness there will be plenty of room here.
I fully expect this comments section to be full of "but what about all the resources we need for..." fears about "overpopulation". Where there's a will, there's a way. The zero population growth people would have us believe that the numbers are very different from what they really are, but the world can produce a lot more food than we do, and with minimal changes, it could be greatly increased.
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Manufactured plague please, Nature is far more creative then we could ever be.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
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Indeed. They seem hell-bound to reestablish starvation and sickness as the main means of population control.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Climate change could cause drought and famine in many 3rd world countries where most of the growth is happening, and we end up with half that population
...elderly friend of mine who is absolutely certain that the entire threat from population growth is entirely due to the horrible white races he is part of.
Technically he is has a point. There is a direct, almost perfect correlation between poverty and population growth. Given that much of the poverty on an international scale is due to the fact that the more developed nations do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development, and in many cases actually work to prevent it, there is certainly some blame to be placed there.
Not much. Most of that population growth comes from other areas, like China or India.
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...gave Dr. Evil a million dollars he'd have (da daaa dadada dadada) 11 MILLION BILLION DOLLARS!!!!
Muahahaaha! Muahahaha!!!!
"do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Just because a nation is developed does not automatically mean it owes other countries anything. Just because you work really hard to acquire something does not mean it should be carved up and given to anyone that did not work for it. As well I think you will find the majority of issues in those areas are because local warlords prefer the status quo. We can ship all the grain, water filters, medicines we can manufacture down there and it will not do an once of good if it rots in warehouses at shipping yards.
Did they factor in the Mars population though? You obviously have to subtract that.
We need a Paula. Vulcans? Hell, I'd take Vogons at this point.
Paula: Look, many young men who should be able to move out, simply can't. It's called "failure to launch". And that's where I come in. Young men develop self-esteem best during a romantic relationship, so I simulate one. We have a memorable meeting. We get to know each other over a few casual meals, he helps me through an emotional crisis, then I meet his friends, if he has any... Then I let him teach me something... But the bottom line is, he bonds with me. He lets go of you. He moves out.
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Or, it could peak at 10 billion, with little to no ill effect.
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If your suggesting that the solution to overpopulation is people starving to death, than please, you first.
I wouldn't put much faith in long term predictions. 2100 is 87 years away. 87 years ago, it was 1926. In 1927, the world's population reached 2 billion (up from 1 billion in 1804). Had they made a prediction then, they would have likely guessed that we'd hit 3 billion by 2049. Maybe 4 billion if they thought we were doubling population numbers. In addition, if someone from 1926 tried predicting what the technology of 2013 would be like, I highly doubt they'd be anywhere close.
My prediction? In 87 years, the world will look in many ways the same and in many ways vastly different in ways that I couldn't begin to imagine at this point.
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What happened when we fed them in the 80s?
They made twice as many starving people.
Feeding them resulted in even MORE people starving.
So I'm doing my part!
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Not at all, but it turns out the solution is not just providing food aid either. Something is very wrong somewhere. And sorry for swears in OP, but overpopulation is my hot button.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Not if Carbon Dioxide has anything to say about it.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Exterminate, EXTERMINATE!
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Well, I'll do my part and die sometime between now and then, so put me down for -1.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Free software engineering degrees. The massive increase in geek population will no doubt cause reproduction rates to plummet. Throw in government-subsidized WoW accounts and we'll have negative population growth in 4 years tops!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Predictions of Malthusian nightmares rarely seem to take birth control into account. We should keep in mind that effective hormonal birth control has only been widely available in the West since the seventies. In that short (yes, very short) amount of time it had to become both cheap enough and socially acceptable enough to make a demographic dent. We're only beginning to see the effects but even so 48% of the world's population lives in countries with sub-replacement fertility rates. Immigration props up most of the developed world demographically, but even so countries with some of the most advanced economies, like Germany and Japan, are experiencing a contraction of their populations. Indeed the latter, with its aversion to immigration, faces demographic collapse.
There's a lot of reason to be concerned about pressure of resources as the developing world grows and developing economies advance. But much of the increased pressure is caused by people taking on aspects of Western life--consumerism, purchase of electronic conveniences which become apparent necessities (cell phone, computers, etc), and the increasing use of cars. But aside from stable polities, few things make life more comfortable in the West than birth control. If there was a bit of lag time, and indeed a small amount, before widespread adoption of birth control in the West would make a demographic difference, why should we not expect developing countries to follow suit shortly?
Have you noticed that people are still having sex
All the denouncement had absolutely no effect
Parents and counselors constantly scorn them
But people are still having sex
And nothing seems to stop them
Do you realise that people are still having sex
They've been told not to, perhaps they are perplexed
When you see them holding hands
They're making future plans
To engage in the activity
Do you understand me
People are still having sex
Lust keeps on lurking
Nothing makes them stop
This safe things not working
People are still having sex
It's been going on for quite a while
Perhaps it's quite fashionable
It hasn't gone out of style
It's a fact that people are still having sex
It's rather obvious it's just what one expects
The evidence is all around that everyone in town
Has had it at one time or other in thier life
At this very moment people are still having sex
In a downtown condo or street in the projects
Although you can't see them or hear their breathing sounds
Someone in this world is having sex right now
People are still having sex
People are still having sex
Read a headline from the 1890's in the Tribune when they estimated the horse poop would be 6ft deep by 1920 in the streets. Of course then came the automobile. That's the problem with all these long term prediction models. Things change in ways they never can account for.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
The Future
Apparently, the population is going be around 11 Billion after all the world's resources are depleted, humanity has been genetically engineered to be happy, the moon has been colonized, the US national debt has been paid off, and the US national debt has ballooned completely out of control.
Either that or predictions that far into the future are completely worthless.
HA! I'll be dead! HAHAHAHAHAHA! This world is fucked, I'm just addin'; to it.
The UN has consistently overestimated population growth since 1980. They issue low, medium and high projections with the low variant being the one that consistently comes to pass.
The sole exception is Africa where growth over the last 10 years has exceeded the low variant. Now they have swiftly corrected this mistake by making an absurd 4 billion people in Africa projection. So we are back to normal UN population division working mode. Their motto is: population growth wildly overestimated the world over.
I've said for years it won't slow down like they think.
You are already seeing subcultures in the 1st world which are breeding at a higher rate for a variety of reasons (religion is significant).
If you view humans as a virus- those which breed quickly seem plausible to become the dominant group in the population.
Sad, because the earth is a paradise at about 2 to 3 billion.
We are way past the earth's carrying capacity and it's too late to change anything.
I expect that, like deer, we'll do fine until there is a glitch, virus, etc. and then a billion or more will die fairly quickly. Hopefully after I'm dead of natural causes.
We are making a lot of progress on disease so I'm thinking disruption of food delivery or destruction of water supply is more likely-- lots of aquifers being drawn down now.
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Hey people... STOP FUCKING [with taxpayer-/employer-subsidized contraceptive programs]!
FTFY. [Before any of you conservatives fly off the handle, please hear me out]: People won't stop fucking, and Chinese-style child-limits are off the table in any society that values individual autonomy. Thus, I am of the opinion that no opportunity to put contraceptives into the hands of all of those willing to accept them should be interfered with — consider it is an investment in the future. To the conservatives who may balk at this, I ask you: Would you rather subsidize $0.25 condoms, or the ~$100,000+ it costs to raise each unwanted child for 18 years?
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Remember Bad Religion's "10 in 2010" song. According them them we would all be starving by now. Dummies.
Just because a country is developed means: automatically it owes quite a lot to the less developed world.
*We* exploitet those countries the previous 400 years.
*We* made sure they get ruled by kings, dictators etc.
*We* locked them down by setting up taxes and tarrifs when they started to become a competition
*We* bombed them back into the stone age when they joined the eastern/communism block.
Yes, you are right, we can not fight against the local warlords we set up there. The warlords there would not exist if we had not exploited and manipulated those countries for half a millenia.
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Distribute free game consoles to the male of the species.
I couldn't locate the SMBC comic that illustrates this proposal, but I did find another one that's on-topic.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
> How the hell is the NSA supposed to keep track of all those people?!?!
It's just a typo. I'm sure they meant that the world population could reach 11 Million by 2100. (Million with an M, not Billion with a B.)
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Soilent Green, anyone?
I don't think so. And at very least, the "Intelligence" didn't think this thing through.
You are welcome on my lawn.
And what about when the world is consuming trillions of gallons of Water from the oceans?
It is a good thing that the water cycle is really fast, then, especially when we ignore ground and surface fresh water. It also is a good thing that the oceans are stupendously large. Water, on a grand scale, isn't really a limited resource, or at least until we start cracking it for hydrogen, or something. Water is as renewable as oxygen and free (non-fossil) carbon.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Giving something to someone who does not feel they have earned it results in waste, greed, and dependence. If people want to be free they need to fight for it. They need to truly learn the value of freedom and why it costs so much to keep. It cannot just be handed to them or the next warlord, dictator or emperor will just take it right back again. We had to strive and fight against the exploitation against our country, We made sure we were not ruled by kings, We fought with blood sweat and tears against the tariffs, taxes levied against us. And we fought tooth and nail to control our fate. We made and created a country where it was safe to innovate, where a person could come and setup a new life free from the artificial prejudices and religious biases of other countries. And we became great because of that. We would not be who we are if we would have just sat back and waited for France or Germany to bail us out.
...all Borg.
Its important to note that nearly all population growth is occuring among black, asian and other non white populations. The white population of the world is basically going extinct because the birth rates in Europe are so low that they are half of what is needed just to maintain the white-european population. Many others have pointed this out, that the statistics an data clearly show that th white race is in very serious population decline and is dying out. Added to this would be the effects of miscegenation which accelerate the extinction of the white race. The birth rate crisis in those countries has been caused, intentionally, by the policies of governments of those countries, such as tax policies that discourage having children. The problem is compound and is caused by several factors including the promotion of radical feminism that discourages women from taking on motherly responsibilities, the availability of contraceptives, and the fact that so many farming and manufacturing middle income jobs have gone away. This has resulted in middle income jobs that did not require a college education disappearing. This has increased burdens on families to afford college education and has contributed to birth rate crisis.
It is clear that what must be done is to increase the birth rates in europe by incentivizing white Europeans to have more children to bring birth rates up above replacement level there and to end immigration.
Otherwise, we could be facing the extinction of blue eyed, blond/brown skinned people. ironically, the white race is the most unique of the planets races, yet it is the one that is clearly going extinct due to gthe genocidal policies of governments. Clearly, immigration, wars on white fertility are being used as weapons against white people to destroy their race. This is being done by people who claim to be for "diversity". They are not. They are trying to destroy diversity by destroying the most unique race on the planet in an effort to elimate and erase human diversity. Immigration threatens to destroy diversity, in no way does it promote human diversity. For instance, lets say we dumped a million arabs into Japan. Arabs already have their own culture in the middle east, doing this would only damage the uniqueness of Japan and threaten the unique identity of the Japanese people. The arabs and japanese remain more distinct and unique if they remain in different countries than they would if we did the above. This general principle applies everywhere.
Just today the US census has basically said that white americans are going extinct, white people are not having enough children just to maintain their own population level, as a result white people will become a minority of the US population by 2043 if this continues.
What we are seeing here is the result of specific, intentional policies carried out by governments and institutions to attack, oppress, and marginalise, and carry out what amounts to a genocidal program of extermination against the white race, to render them shrinking minorities in their own country so they can be oppressed. Mass immigration is clearly part of an agenda to destroy white america rooted in pure racist hatred of white people. I oppose anything that would cause the destruction or reduction of population of any race in whole or in part due to any means, because I believe all races are equally valuable and I oppose anyone that would want to destroy or threaten our races. Due to intentional governmental and institutional policies, including an intentional war on family values and an economic war on the white race, there has been a engineered attack on and collapse of the white birth rate, which is far below replacement level. at the same time, policies, incljuding immigration, are a part of a compound problem designed to cause the annihilation of the white race and to cause white, blonde haired, blue eyed people to become an engangered species by blending the race out of existance through a combination of an immigration invasion of white countries, and inter
Not much. Most of that population growth comes from other areas, like China or India.
China? Population growth? Seriously?
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Buying back crashed gold with cheap dollars is a plan any (R) or (D) can agree on.
So tell me then, grasshoppa, why with a hundreds of thousands of years head start is Africa as a whole still one of the shittiest places in the world? You ever been to Djbouti? I have. I am surprised I didn't die from the stench alone. I will second the notion that it will still be a pathetic continent with no human development. With a head start that big, THEY should be the world's super power. Not the G8. You can't blame population or lack of resources either. India and China both have humongous populations and a lot of poor folks yet even thier poorest still get to eat for the most part. It is gonna take ALOT of work to fix Africa and the first leg of that journey is to actually educate them. And I don't mean just teach them how to read. I mean teaching the north to stop being ultraorthodox muslim asshats and instead just be normal muslims like Europe and America have. We have to teach the middle and south to stop being tribal asshats who only look out for thier tribe and stop warring amongst themselves when they could band together and actually have nice things. The Hutu's and Tutsi's have been warring now for how long? No, if left to thier own devices as they have been now for hundreds of thousands of years not a damned thing will change. Alot of people will die whether from starving or warring or sickness. Now don't misconstrue my message. I am not one to meddle. If they want to be left to thier own devices then leave em alone. But when I say that I mean really leave em alone. Stop giving them money, food, medicine, weaponry and all the other shit we do. If they are strong, they will survive and figure out how to take care of themselves. Teach a man to fish and all that. If we must help them, and I am all for that as well, then they are gonna have to meet our standards to get it.
That is a bullshit excuse for greedy exploitation and you know it. I could lock a 5 year old girl in my basement and make the same argument. The world isn't asking the US to bail them out it is asking the US to stop fucking everything up. This was already explained in the post you replied to which you failed to comprehend though so I don't know why I am bothering to repeat it.
My statement was directed at "do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Personally I wish the US would stop meddling with the rest of the planet. I have always voted in that direction and will continue. The US has no reason to do it and it does cause problems. But I do not feel obligated to stand up for people that will not a least try to help themselves. And I do not feel obligated to give what I work for to anyone else simple because they didn't work for anything. I won't give money to the guy at the street corner with the sign ignoring every charitable organization in the city that would love to help him. But I will give it to the single mom that is having a hard time making it to work because her car broke.
Holy racism, Batman!
I find it highly unlikely that the mostly white power structure in this country is bound and determined to exterminate white people. That's just not how powerful people behave. Powerful people behave in a way that preserves and increases their power (and the power of those like them), not destroys it. The whole point of the US Constitution is that this is natural human behavior, so we need to make sure to limit such power.
Look at your own interests in your post, Eravnrekaree. You're interested in ensuring people like yourself continue to prosper. Why would more powerful people have strongly different interests? Can you find any historical evidence of other situations where a group of people were intent on eliminating people like themselves? History is replete with the opposite case, but I can't think of anything like what you think is happening.
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The USA is here to help!
We will gladly start a war with any 3rd World country to help reduce the population. We really can't afford it, but we'll do it if we have to.
You're welcome!
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