The World's Human Population Has Doubled Since I Was Born

[Hissyspit]

I'm 45, born in 1962.



http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/worldpopulation.php

This map is interesting, too: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=7

[jgraz]

1. It's even more if you go by weight.

:P

[babylonsister]

5. snort! and inhale another Oreo, piker.

;-)

[Swamp Rat]

7. I resemble that remark!

:D



Oops! I'm in trouble now! :evilgrin:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

15. Or like this guy

[Kitty Herder]

20. Ouch! My eyes! Where did you get that horrid photo, swamp rat? Is that a human? nt

[jgraz]

29. HINT: Check out the face.

And no, it isn't human.

[tabasco]

2. Frightening.

The result is the devastation of our small planet and a lowered quality of life for all but the super-wealthy..

[canetoad]

3. Look at that jump

during the industrial revolution. If if it hadn't levelled out we'd be at 8 billion by 1950.

[liberal4truth]

10. We will be at 9 Billion humans by mid-century, assuming we dont kill ourselves.

[gateley]

4. Two quotes will be on my headstone:

"It's always the money."

and

"There are too many fucking people on the planet."

[babylonsister]

6. Nothin' about

Biden? :hide:

[gateley]

16. Ha!

:rofl: nt

[liberal4truth]

11. LOL!!!! So true !

[alittlelark]

13. "?"

not gettin' it.

[liberal4truth]

35. Sorry, but I guess some types of humor aren't for everyone. :-)

[rawtribe]

8. I showed up in 1959

a disciple of Master Ehrlich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

I hear ya' bro.....

[Hissyspit]

9. "The carrying capacity of the Earth..."

[rawtribe]

14. If you've ever tried to maintain

a closed system (reef aquarium) you would understand carrying capacity on a micro level.

Our blue marble is a macro aquarium.


:shrug:

[AngryAmish]

32. or Rev. Malthus

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus>

[Egalitarian]

12. The scale on the time axis is whacked

[EOTE]

34. I think it's supposed to be...

The graph is distorted in order to show the increase in population as being linear. Since population has been increasing at a far greater than linear rate as of recent centuries/decades, the time axis gets further compressed as it moves towards the right.

[Triana]

17. This is the root of so many problems...

....including climate change and poverty.

At some point this planet will fling off some parasites...and we're sitting here on our breeding asses just inviting it. Sawing off the very branch upon which we're perched.

Idiots.

[troubleinwinter]

18. EGADS!!!! Your SECOND link deserves it's own thread!

Go to the little "next map" link upper right corner and click through them. FASCINATING!!!!

[Hissyspit]

21. Population 2050:

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=11

[Hissyspit]

22. Population 2300:

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=12

[Hissyspit]

23. Refugee Destination 2006:

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=13

[Ghost Dog]

19. China, of course, imposed its own solution. n/t

[Sean Stuart]

24. I find that a different graph better illustrates our growth:

The following shows time at a constant rate to better illustrate the mind-blowing explosion we've had recently. Link:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Population_curve.svg

[LWolf]

25. I was born in 1960,

and I grew up thinking that the world was already too crowded.

Here's a book recommendation for those who want to acknowledge the population crisis on the planet:

Global Issues: An Introduction by John L. Seitz

[sinkingfeeling]

26. The USA population has doubled since I was born and the world's is almost triple.

I was born in 1948. US population was 146,631,302.

[ThomWV]

27. I Have Pointed That Out Frequently: Born in 1947 myself, twice as many people now

There are twice as many people in the United States today compared to how many there were on the day I was born.

That is simply amazing. We grow like scum on a summer pond.

[progressoid]

28. B B But, Jeebus wants me to have lots of babies.

[taught_me_patience]

30. I don't see the problem

I think that advances in technology will enable the world to hold a lot more people.

[Hissyspit]

31. I didn't say there was a problem, but technologies

have consequences and side effects, many unforseen and unpredicted. I guess we'll find out.

[Heywood J]

33. The problem is that we're still waiting on the technological advances

to allow the world to sustain this amount of people. Adding more people will require technological advances beyond those we are already anticipating.


Keep that in mind when in ten or fifteen years, humanity starts fighting on a grand scale over water and remaining oil reserves. That kind of environment is not conducive to such extensive technological advances.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. But will that technology result in the further destruction of earth's ecology?

Will we see the end of the rain forests, the end of most wild species of animals, the continued spread of suburban ugliness, and the further poisoning of our oceans? To me, those are problems. I want to see not only an end to population growth, but I would like to see a reduction in population. I think the more technology we have, the more the people of the world will continue consuming more and more resources and further degrade the planet. To me, overpopulation is a gigantic problem.