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What's your answer to the world population growth?



Giraffe

Giraffe

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I have been reading Dan Brown's Inferno and whilst it is a jolly good read which I would recommend the overall theme is an interesting one. Simply put the world's population is growing at such an alarming rate and forecast to continue and therefore how can we sustain this with increasingly limited natural resources. In the book WHO (World Health Organisation) are trying to thwart one or two radical scientists who believe the answer is a worldwide disease being spread.

In the past such diseases, together with world wars have kept the population lower, but with the advances in medication keeping people alive and generally thwarting old and new diseases to a much greater extent the population can only go one way.

The graph below is a fairly scary picture.

So what is the answer?
 

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Psychobilly freakout

Psychobilly freakout

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Giraffe said:
I have been reading Dan Brown's Inferno and whilst it is a jolly good read which I would recommend the overall theme is an interesting one. Simply put the world's population is growing at such an alarming rate and forecast to continue and therefore how can we sustain this with increasingly limited natural resources. In the book WHO (World Health Organisation) are trying to thwart one or two radical scientists who believe the answer is a worldwide disease being spread.

In the past such diseases, together with world wars have kept the population lower, but with the advances in medication keeping people alive and generally thwarting old and new diseases to a much greater extent the population can only go one way.

The graph below is a fairly scary picture.

So what is the answer?
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Well the lovely Americans voting in Trump is a start, next Le Pen and Geert Wilders.... add Kim Jong-un, Bashar al-Assad and Putin into the mix I think there is a pretty good chance a nuke will be dispatched within the next few years and the rest will follow.
 
















beorhthelm

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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there is no answer that is politically or ethically acceptable.
 
















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Massive over-consumption by the countries also needs reducing. Population is only one factor; it's sustainability that's the issue.

Anyway, I did my bit and had the snip. No kids for me.
 


Bold Seagull

Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010
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Education.

Japan has the highest enrolment of children in primary school, and has the lowest fertility rate in women of 1.3 children per women. As the enrolment in primary school education reduces, the fertility rate rises, you can see this across the world. It is inextricably linked.
 












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