A sad day for earth!

[Septimus Hedgehog]

Mankind. The only species to start at the top and work its way downwards. Seven billion is not exactly a record to be proud of.

[S Houghtelin]

It's settled then, we ship everyone to Canada! ;P

It was broke, so I fixed it.

[Lost User]

Was listening to a discussion on it earlier. 1 billion was in 1804, 6 billion in 1988, 9 billion will be 2050 and then numbers will start to decline rapidly. In 1950s average births per woman was 6, now it is 2.5. As that continues to drop then so will total population.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

[Lost User]

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

The symbolic 7 billionth baby born in Philippines[^]

There was a bus crash a millisecond later so there are 12 to go yet before we hit the 7 billion. SO be happy! :~

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[Nish Nishant]

People ship themselves to Canada :-)

Regards, Nish

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[hairy_hats]

Quite - for example, how many perfectly edible pumpkins are being wasted on Halloween across the globe this week?

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

So you suggest people not have any children because they may grow the number eventually to 8 billion and then 9 billion and then 10 billion which will make Earth more sad, more sad and more sad. Or you are just pointing out it is sad and not do anything about it?

[Nish Nishant]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Or you are just pointing out it is sad and not do anything about it?

I tell my friends/family to have 1 or no kids. We only have 1 kid ourselves. So I am probably doing more than most people. Nothing to be proud of though since there's not much effort involved.

Regards, Nish

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[Nish Nishant]

I read estimates that say it'll be 10 billion by 2050 and most of that will be among the poorer parts of India and China. Meaning they'll be way below poverty levels.

Regards, Nish

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[Roger Wright]

It's all India's fault, you know. With a little help from China. ;P

Will Rogers never met me.

[Nish Nishant]

I agree :-) But India's gender ratio is going down alarmingly, so soon there won't be enough women to procreate normally. Bad solution to a real problem.

Regards, Nish

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[Gary Wheeler]

The fancy-schmancy new editor widget Does Bad Things when you cut/copy/paste. :suss:

Software Zen: delete this;

[Roger Wright]

Indeed! Good thing that you snagged your little beauty when you did! :-D

Will Rogers never met me.

[Nish Nishant]

Heh :-) It's kinda funny (in a nice way) to be talking to people who knew me (and her) before we got together.

Regards, Nish

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[Michael Bergman]

Don't be sad. McDonald's will serve over half of them in the coming year[^].

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

[Lost User]

I've just carved 3. Although I grew them myself and I still have the innards. Dunno what to do with them mind, but it seems a waste to just chuck 'em.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

[Single Step Debugger]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

So you suggest people not have any children because they may grow the number eventually to 8 billion and then 9 billion and then 10 billion which will make Earth more sad, more sad and more sad.

Nobody says something like this. The point is that people who are barely able to sustain, educate and bring up one kid often have a soccer team on their own.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Is it bad form to point out that nobody has any idea when the 7 billionth person will be born? It could be in a few years time for all anyone knows.

Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

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[Nish Nishant]

Well, this was symbolic :-)

Regards, Nish

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[Single Step Debugger]

The sad thing is that this enormous number doesn’t contribute enough to the human progress. The vast majority of the scientific discoveries/technical and medical achievements/popular culture in the last two or so hundred years are coming from North America, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and few other countries. Most of the mentioned states haven’t changed significantly (not even doubled) their population the last 100 years and some are in decline the last 30. Something has to be done with the education and educational systems in the poor countries with a huge population growing rates. If we have 7 billion well educated, sane and not hungry people we will be in the space in no time.

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