Saturday, November 19, 2016

11 Billion An d Counting

I have written many times that the only serious environmental problem is not the so-called climate change, but instead the every real and undeniable overpopulation of the earth. Just think. The world's population has grown from a handful of people in eastern Africa around the year 100,000 B.C. to more than 7 billion today.  It's incredible to me also that the world population in my own lifetime has more than doubled. Doesn't anyone out there know what birth control is?

Here's some stats about the growing population.
-For the first 100,000 years, the population did not reach 1 million, according to the post. At 1 A.D., it was only 170 million.
-It took 200,000 years for the number of people on earth to reach 1 billion. But in the next 200 years, the population exploded to 7 billion.
-Only once in history was a significant population decline noted. That was during the Bubonic Plague epidemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people, mostly in Europe between 1346 and 1353.
-The world population will peak around 2100 at 11 billion. That's because fertility rates around the globe are falling.
-Worldwide, approximately one million people die every week. In that same week, two and half million people are born.  That's a 250% birth rate.
-For the past fifty years, between 70 and 80 million new people have been added to our planet each year . That's equivalent of adding a new Canada to the world each year.

How will the earth feed and furnish enough water for 11 million people? It doesn't appear the many people care. Instead, they imagine climate change scenarios based on guesses. The growth of our human population will eventually end somehow, whether we want it to or not. But how will it happen? We can stop growing deliberately, of our own accord. But humans just seem to be unwilling to stop breeding excessively.

 So what will do it? Will the population decline because of war, or famine, disease? You tell me.

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