There are 6.6 billion people in the world.

LikeAnOcean
LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
30-something years ago there was about half of that. The population can't keep doubling every generation. What is going to be the breaking point? Starvation? Disease? War?.. I don't want to be around to see it, but this planet can only support so many. People aren't going to just stop having children. Something is going to break.
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  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    30-something years ago there was about half of that. The population can't keep doubling every generation. What is going to be the breaking point? Starvation? Disease? War?.. I don't want to be around to see it, but this planet can only support so many. People aren't going to just stop having children. Something is going to break.

    mother nature will take care of us all
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • NewJPage
    NewJPage Posts: 3,320
    when i become president, there will have to be some sort of child limitation imposed...totally agreed...its one of the hugest problems we face.
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  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    it is too controversial and unethical to propose a mandate on how many children one could have, at least in america, right?

    either big secret gov't will take care of it or some crazy asshole will,...

    or we'll just keep booming until we run out of resources, starve, or get the bubonic plague,...
    you're a real hooker. im gonna slap you in public.
    ~Ron Burgundy
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    not4u wrote:
    mother nature will take care of us all

    exactly...so stop worrying everyone...lol
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    NewJPage wrote:
    when i become president, there will have to be some sort of child limitation imposed...totally agreed...its one of the hugest problems we face.

    get out of this country and go the far east.
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    icarus wrote:
    i'd rank this third behind peak oil and climate change

    ????
    so the three big problems

    1.Oil
    2.Climate Change
    3.Population

    i think your thinking should be number one
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    30-something years ago there was about half of that. The population can't keep doubling every generation. What is going to be the breaking point? Starvation? Disease? War?.. I don't want to be around to see it, but this planet can only support so many. People aren't going to just stop having children. Something is going to break.


    Not to sound crass but I usually do. When droughts hit spots that is mother nature doing her thing to thin out the population. When we send help that is us interfering with the will of the world.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    Why do you think there's such a high case of AIDS? And what about SARS hitting Asia a few years ago? Population control (Mother Nature's that is).
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    so you are suggesting people have aids and sars because of population control?
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    even flow? wrote:
    Not to sound crass but I usually do. When droughts hit spots that is mother nature doing her thing to thin out the population. When we send help that is us interfering with the will of the world.

    so humans are aliens of the earth...we aren't a part of nature?
  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    Eventually the population will plateau. It will have to.
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    Darwin
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    macgyver06 wrote:
    so you are suggesting people have aids and sars because of population control?
    I'm saying disease is a sort of population control. It's just a theory...
  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    western pearl wrote:
    Eventually the population will plateau. It will have to.

    Already started actually:

    http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/basic_information/future_projections.html
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    lol..just be careful who you say that to :) some people are born with hiv and are born with respiratory problems... i dont know any so im not offended :)
  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    danny72688 wrote:
    I'm saying disease is a sort of population control. It's just a theory...

    Disease and culture shift...although medical breathroughs (stem cell) could possibly combat disease.
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    macgyver06 wrote:
    lol..just be careful who you say that to :) some people are born with hiv and are born with respiratory problems... i dont know any so im not offended :)
    Yeah that was rather harsh of me to say that, but I can't explain it any other way. So sorry to whomever I offend(ed).
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    danny72688 wrote:
    Yeah that was rather harsh of me to say that, but I can't explain it any other way. So sorry to whomever I offend(ed).

    i know what ya mean though..i live in florida and have been trying to convince people the hurricanes are good because the only trees and wildlife left standing afterwards are the strrong trees and dense forest...its sorta the 8.00 premium car wash kinda thing..
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    macgyver06 wrote:
    so humans are aliens of the earth...we aren't a part of nature?


    Nature takes care of nature.

    Some of us may be aliens. How else would you describe the need for money over the planet.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    even flow? wrote:
    Nature takes care of nature.

    Some of us may be aliens. How else would you describe the need for money over the planet.

    are you saying we didnt originate here on earth..

    and that mother nature isnt one living thing?

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