7,000,000,000

[Escaep]

That's what planet Earth's population will be by the end of the month, according to the United Nations.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/10/earths-population-to-hit-7-billion-people.html

According to the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion by the end of the month.

According to demographers, the world's population didn't reach 1 billion until 1804, and it took 123 years to hit the 2 billion mark in 1927. Then the pace accelerated — 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1998.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44928812/ns/world_news/#.Tp4s5N6AqU8

Congrats Earth, you've managed to add 1 billion people in only 13 years!

 

[Vegeta897]

So 5 to 6 was 11 years, and 6 to 7 will be 13 years. Slowing down then!

 

[Stigmata]

Peak People.

 

[Krynn72]

Not enough. We still need more human shields for the alien attack of 2023. We need another billion at least, so lets get banging!

 

[AKIRA]

damn china and india

 

[15357]

Peak People.

lol

I'm all for more people, as long as they don't come from India or China. There needs to be an even distribution of population wealth; I don't think population will trickle down.

Also aliens.

 

[Gargantou]

The only non-violent way to get a stable population growth is to reduce poverty.

Just watch some TED|Talks with Professor Hans Rosling, all the research points towards higher income and education leading to lower birthrates.

Japan is a perfect example of this.

 

[15357]

Why would we want have less population growth? Or be like Japan for that matter?

 

[Raziaar]

Peak People.

This doesn't bode well for my Soylent Green dream.

 

[AKIRA]

Why would we want have less population growth? Or be like Japan for that matter?

Is Japan really THAT much different than Korea? I have a couple Korean friends(yes I know they don't represent the entire nation but bear with me lol) who have lived in Japan and said that the mentality there is work and being established first then family. I mean...don't Japan and Korea have really high suicide rates among young adults because of the stress of becoming established first? It's basically like their school and work trumps actual family from what they tell me and what I hear/see.

Thoughts?

 

[15357]

Is Japan really THAT much different than Korea? I have a couple Korean friends(yes I know they don't represent the entire nation but bear with me lol) who have lived in Japan and said that the mentality there is work and being established first then family. I mean...don't Japan and Korea have really high suicide rates among young adults because of the stress of becoming established first? It's basically like their school and work trumps actual family from what they tell me and what I hear/see.

Thoughts?

Our superior work ethic and industriousness is about the only thing that’s similar.Also family work relations are a bit complicated to explain. Just know that schoolwork is actually regarded as the best way to repay your parents so its not really a X or Y situation.

For example, no tentacle porn (actually a lot of the stuff is illegal) and vastly different art direction (also note that a criteria of censorship is being too japanese) and stuff like Grave of the Fireflies are not received very well in the rwst of the Asian continent.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

So 5 to 6 was 11 years, and 6 to 7 will be 13 years. Slowing down then!

Didn't China make a policy about limiting the amount of children per family?

I'm waiting for the renewed Small Pox Contagion that the governments will likely release to slow down population growth

 

[ríomhaire]

Why would we want have less population growth? Or be like Japan for that matter?

Resource management. Too many mouths to feed, not enough farmland to feed them all well.

 

[Robbo]

Didn't China make a policy about limiting the amount of children per family?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

 

[The Monkey]

China is not the problem, they actually need to have more kids if they want to prevent an aging population. I would scrap the one-child policy if I were them. African countries are the big trouble-makers at the present.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

African countries

...are perpetually ****ed, forever ****ed.

 

[Avoidist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate

7 children per woman as an extreme in society is irresponsible enough. 7 as an average? That's downright nuts.

 

[tomemozok]

Yay!!!
We are going for the 10 mark slowly
After that, colonize Mars!

 

[Stigmata]

Soylent space bridge.

Okay not all my posts in this thread are going to be quips. 7 children per family on average is insane. But really that's just the birth rate, you have to remember that lots of these children will un/fortunately die before adulthood.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

China is not the problem

Walter Sobchak agrees.

 

[Dynasty]

Reading somewhere today that the population growth isnt actually the problem, we can sustain it.

We're just retards driven by short-term profits, and dont distribute what we have properly. If humanity dies due to running out of resources, it's our own damn fault.