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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| World population soars to 11 billion by 2100 - with half living in Africa. Forecast by statisticians for the UN population division |
| 2015-08-10 |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #11 This is serious stuff, people. Simple arithmetic tells us that 11 billion by 2100 means that by 4200 there will be 22 BILLION. With half in Africa, that's enough to make the entire continent tip over like Guam. What's that? Something about not extrapolating exponential curves? Oh, just shut up! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-08-10 20:24 |
| #10 Africa has countries that are coming out of the dark ages of socialism and cronyism, but a lot of other countries are circling the drain. You can have exponential population growth, but if resources cannot support those populations, you will peak and have a population crash. Who is going to take charge of Africa and change it? I do not see a bunch of nations jumping forward and volunteering. The Chinese look to their self interest. Buy natural resources, give away a few highways, dams, medical facilities to sweeten the deal. They will take what they can get for as cheap as they can. Africa will eventually have to clean up their act themselves. In the meantime, Europe will face a huge wave of unemployed or refugee Africans heading across the Med. They are going to get flooded. The last year is just the warm up. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-08-10 19:59 |
| #9 there are 7 billion people today; not sure going to 11 billion constiutes soaring in 85 years. there is plenty of food, land and resources unfortunately there will be proportionally just as many idiots, criminals, politicians and theories of ultimate destruction. |
| Posted by: airandee 2015-08-10 16:18 |
| #8 Malthus = correct? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2015-08-10 15:55 |
| #7 ...or donor fatigue? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-10 13:24 |
| #6 Statistician ever heard of logistic equation? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-10 12:59 |
| #5 Is at forecast considering the detrimental effects of global climate change? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-08-10 12:51 |
| #4 ...probably by the laying of thick naval minefields in the Mediterranean. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-10 10:48 |
| #3 In Africa? I fear this problem will be self correcting in an extremely ugly manner. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-08-10 10:43 |
| #2 peak oil v2. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-08-10 10:41 |
| #1 birth control is needed, it would be way better to stabilize world population now too many people, too many problems. almost every problem is easier to solve with a smaller population. life is nicer too with wild places and clean water and air |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-10 09:51 |