Great explanations of what it means to have 7 billion people

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_ Posts: 6,657
edited November 2011 in A Moving Train
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion
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  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    interesting
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,109
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,245
    Many of these questions will never be answered but only time will tell. Well maybe a global catastrophe will bring this planet and it's people to work together to solve its problems.

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,735
    Sheeeeeeit! I knew 7 billion was coming but, wham! Just like that? Aughh- too fast- makes my head spin!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • UpSideDown
    UpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    _ wrote:
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion

    Neverrmind....my math was of.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Pap wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0

    damm ... just spent 20 mins watching various this vs. that vids from national geographic ... the crocodile vs. python one was pretty interesting ...
  • inlet13
    inlet13 Posts: 1,979
    One of the fundamental problems with the population subject is:

    ...it's easy to say our resources are scarce, and more people, means less resources for everyone. Therefore, we're going to have problems, like extreme poverty, starvation, etc.

    The problem is folks rarely explain that the opposite has occurred over the last 200 years. If one argued we had less resources, one could easily argue back we've gotten more from less because of technology. In fact, one could argue in some cases, we actually increased our resources because of technology. Moreover, we've had less problems over the past 200 years, like extreme poverty, starvation, etc....yet, we've had more people.

    This is not an easy subject to discuss. Anyone who paints the picture as if more people is necessarily 100% bad for the average person's well being, is not well-versed on the subject.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,735
    "Carrying Capacity": An ecological term worth studying.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    I would be in favor of population control, it's the logical step to take.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Pap wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0

    :thumbup:
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    brianlux wrote:
    Sheeeeeeit! I knew 7 billion was coming but, wham! Just like that? Aughh- too fast- makes my head spin!

    Supposedly it happened on Halloween. Seems fitting to me. It's scary.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    inlet13 wrote:
    One of the fundamental problems with the population subject is:

    ...it's easy to say our resources are scarce, and more people, means less resources for everyone. Therefore, we're going to have problems, like extreme poverty, starvation, etc.

    The problem is folks rarely explain that the opposite has occurred over the last 200 years. If one argued we had less resources, one could easily argue back we've gotten more from less because of technology. In fact, one could argue in some cases, we actually increased our resources because of technology. Moreover, we've had less problems over the past 200 years, like extreme poverty, starvation, etc....yet, we've had more people.

    This is not an easy subject to discuss. Anyone who paints the picture as if more people is necessarily 100% bad for the average person's well being, is not well-versed on the subject.

    I've never heard anyone paint the picture like that. :?
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I would be in favor of population control, it's the logical step to take.

    That could mean so many different things. Personally, I'm in favor of slowing population growth by educating girls.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    _ wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I would be in favor of population control, it's the logical step to take.

    That could mean so many different things. Personally, I'm in favor of slowing population growth by educating girls.


    I don't think mistakes are filling up the world, i look at various religous group, for instance, Catholics, Hasidic Jews, Mexicans, there seems to be some unspoken religous war and way to win it is to reproduce as fast as you can.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    BinauralJam wrote:
    _ wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I would be in favor of population control, it's the logical step to take.

    That could mean so many different things. Personally, I'm in favor of slowing population growth by educating girls.


    I don't think mistakes are filling up the world, i look at various religous group, for instance, Catholics, Hasidic Jews, Mexicans, there seems to be some unspoken religous war and way to win it is to reproduce as fast as you can.
    :lol: I didn't know Mexican was a religion. ;)
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    _ wrote:
    :lol: I didn't know Mexican was a religion. ;)

    :lol: Must be
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    9 million prediction by scientists by mid-century. Even if we have technological advances to help with environmental conditions, 2 more billion people will have catastrophic results. (I only know this because I have to write a paper relating vegetarianism to environmental factors).

    That video was interesting in that if we all stood side by side, we'd take up the same amount of room as the size of Los Angeles. Neat perspective!

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