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Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:20 pm

Seven Billion?

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion

Sustainable?

How close to the edit and population collapse are we? :pop:
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Re: Malthus

Post by Azathoth » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:27 pm

Depends how soon we kick in the soylent factories.

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Re: Malthus

Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:23 pm

My wife loves her biscuits. She never reads the ingredients. I always wonder myself. So much happens out of sight nowadays and no one asks about the imported sources. :pop:
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Re: Malthus

Post by PsychoSerenity » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:54 pm

I suspect this planet could comfortably support several billion more people, with our current technology, if we actually put it to that use.
[Disclaimer - if this is comes across like I think I know what I'm talking about, I want to make it clear that I don't. I'm just trying to get my thoughts down]
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Re: Malthus

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:01 pm

We may well get to 15 billiom before the epidemic wipes off most of them.
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Re: Malthus

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:05 am

Billion. I was posting on iPod.
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Re: Malthus

Post by Rum » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:22 am

I suspect it could to, technically. What will fail well before the technology are societies in my view. Half the populations of countries like Egypt, Iran, India and Indonesia are under 25 and we are seeing what happens when they don't have jobs or a future right now in some of them..
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Re: Malthus

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:53 am

Rum wrote:I suspect it could to, technically. What will fail well before the technology are societies in my view. Half the populations of countries like Egypt, Iran, India and Indonesia are under 25 and we are seeing what happens when they don't have jobs or a future right now in some of them..
Imagine the consequences of a pan-muslim caliphate spreading across the middle east and choking the oil supplies to the west?
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Re: Malthus

Post by Robert_S » Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:24 pm

Crumple wrote:
Rum wrote:I suspect it could to, technically. What will fail well before the technology are societies in my view. Half the populations of countries like Egypt, Iran, India and Indonesia are under 25 and we are seeing what happens when they don't have jobs or a future right now in some of them..
Imagine the consequences of a pan-muslim caliphate spreading across the middle east and choking the oil supplies to the west?
Green tech really gets going?
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