If ghosts exist and billions of people occupy the earth currently,

[Lint Head]

would there not be trillions of ghosts on earth because quite a few humans have died since mankind has existed? I think politicians should consider what to do about the overpopulation of ghosts. The earth is also running out of haunted houses.
We could have a problem with a lot of homeless ghosts.

[Marie Marie]

1. I say we round them all up to haunt Trump - 24/7.

[Lint Head]

3. Good idea.

[icymist]

2. And there they were. Trillions of ghosts all floating above the dead planet.

And the moaning as if in one long mournful cry, "But, what about her emails"...

[DoBotherMe]

8. Excellent!

ROFL

[Leith]

4. I Just Hope That They Aren't Running into the Bathroom with Me

like kitty cats.

[Lint Head]

5. Herding ghosts is probably just as hard as herding cats.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Since they are by definition incorporeal, they don't occupy any space

so it doesn't matter how many there are in any given place. There could be hundreds of them in the very chair you are sitting in right now. If you have cats, they know where the ghosts are because when they seem to be staring at a blank wall they're really looking at ghosts.

[marylandblue]

7. If ghosts are concerned about the environment and affordable housing

They really need to get out and vote. They can't just sit around moaning about their problems without doing something about it. If you have any ghosts in your house, consider driving the Democratic ones to the polls on election day.

[Lint Head]

9. I'm gonna canvas every ghostly neighborhood and knock on

every haunted house I see. Maybe I can convince them to put a Democrat campaign sign in their yards. Just hope it doesn't scare any voters away.

[sl8]

10. "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?"

From https://www.prb.org/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth/

How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

This article is an updated version of one of the most popular features on PRB’s website, estimating the number of people who have ever been born. We first made this estimate in 1995, with updates in 2002 and 2011.

DATE: March 9, 2018

AUTHORS:
TOSHIKO KANEDA, Senior Research Associate
CARL HAUB, Demographer Emeritus

“Modern” Homo sapiens (that is, people who were roughly like we are now) first walked the Earth about 50,000 years ago. Since then, more than 108 billion members of our species have ever been born, according to estimates by Population Reference Bureau (PRB). Given the current global population of about 7.5 billion (based on our most recent estimate as of mid-2017), that means those of us currently alive represent about 7 percent of the total number of humans who have ever lived.

PRB estimates that by 2050 about 113 billion people will have ever lived on Earth.

To be sure, calculating the number of people who have ever lived is part science and part art. No demographic data exist for 99 percent of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about prehistoric populations, we can get a rough idea of this historic number (see Table 1).

...

More at link.

[Lint Head]

11. Whew! Ghost overpopulation is not as bad as I thought.

[Tikki]

12. I'm thinkin' that ghosts absorb all the dark matter, that is why we can't see either.

Sounds about right.


Tikki

[in2herbs]

13. Is the reason we have homeless ghosts the reason tRump says we need a Space Force

so we can transport the ghosts to another galaxy? /s/