Population Estimated 6.5 Billion

[euro_euph06]

Population Growth

 

 

Pretty interesting article on the estimation of the population.

[Xenon]

I love how MSNBC looks like absolute crap in Firefox.

[sax5warrior]

its a good thing people are living longer...but why such an increase when the farm days when you need 10 children are gone and when you have birth control and all that jazz

[Minimaster]

The farm days are gone where you live, but not the rest of the world, think more globally.

[CHS King Mello]

according to the rules of biology, it's going to HAVE to stop sooner or later. Earth will have reached it's maximum carrying capacity, and somehow, we just wont get bigger. I dont know when that will be, but the rate of growth isn't going to remain.

 

according to that graph, around 2050, it's going to begin to level out, at around 9 billion. That's crazy.

 

-C

[Xenon]

We could fit all 6.5 Billion people in Texas and each one would have 1152 sq.ft. all to himself. That is a large apartment! And that is assuming only one story apartment buildings and each kid having 1152 sq.ft. of their own too.

 

Even at 9 Billion people, that is still 832 sq.ft. each.

[supermanuel]

  CHS King Mello said:

according to the rules of biology, it's going to HAVE to stop sooner or later. Earth will have reached it's maximum carrying capacity, and somehow, we just wont get bigger. I dont know when that will be, but the rate of growth isn't going to remain.

 

actually, we won't stop growing. The Malthusian principle states that we can reach above carrying capacity , then a sharp decrease and slowly an S-curve will form centering on that carrying capacity and will continue until carrying capacity is changed.

 

oh the joys of AP Environmental Sciences

[Dynasty]

  Xenon said:

I love how MSNBC looks like absolute crap in Firefox.

Man... no kidding.

 

You have to realize that 1/3 of the population of the world is in two countries: China and India.

 

China has birth restrictions for families, but it's so big and so rural it's almost impossible to enforce.

 

India... who cares? Have as many children as you want.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think India just passed China in population.

[MartinHorn]

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You have to realize that 1/3 of the population of the world is in two countries: China and India.

 

China has birth restrictions for families, but it's so big and so rural it's almost impossible to enforce.

 

India... who cares? Have as many children as you want.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think India just passed China in population.

 

China's population: 1,306,313,812

 

India's population: 1,027,015,247

 

They are predicting that India will surpass China but not until 2030 I think.

[bariphonium]

Check out Discovery Science sometime and you might see a show on a proposed idea for population growth. Most are large buildings that put people in the only direction we have left to go: up. Either buildings have to go very up very fast, or we need to reach for the stars. I don't see either one happening in the near future.

[sax5warrior]

  bariphonium said:

Check out Discovery Science sometime and you might see a show on a proposed idea for population growth. Most are large buildings that put people in the only direction we have left to go: up. Either buildings have to go very up very fast, or we need to reach for the stars. I don't see either one happening in the near future.

I saw something similar...gosh, it was on TLC but i dont remember, it was a building that could house over 100,000 people and provide restaurants and shopping centers. Supposed to be 1 mile high and in Tokyo too by 2050.