A sad day for earth!

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.

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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.

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Roger Wright

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

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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.

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Gary Wheeler

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

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Roger Wright

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

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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.

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Michael Bergman

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Nish Nishant

Yeah, the bad thing is that most of that population boom is among the poorest people on earth.

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NormDroid

Seems India is going to overtake China in having the largest population. Now I think it's time for the world to think about contraception.

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charlieg

Unfortunately, they have. To the detriment of their societies. As has been pointed out, most of the population growth is in "poor" countries. So, when you go look at the "non-poor" societies, you see alarming drops in birth rates, and a correspondingly rapidly aging society. Looking at two asian countries - Japan and China, the results are staggering. If Japan doesn't do something soon, and it may be too late, they will simply fade. People in China are already sounding the alarm. When you have a lot of people, you need some sustainable replacement rate, or your society falls apart. The speed at which China's population is aging is staggering. All it takes is a couple of generations, then you're dealing with simple physics.

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jschell

Maximilien wrote:

The earth can sustain a _lot_ of people if resources are managed appropriately.

No need....we can just wait for the advanced aliens to show up and solve all our problems magically.

Ed K

This is kinda sad! It was sad back in the Greek/Roman times when they fretted about over-population too. Back when the population bomb came out we knew we could only have 2 kids or we'd be starving by now. I'm not sure how many of these man-made end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/we-are-about-to-destroy-life-on-earth I've already lived thru. I've got 4 years 88 days to make it thru the global warming fraud now....we are doing just fine!

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