(December 16, 2014 at 5:47 pm)Chuck Wrote:(December 16, 2014 at 5:14 pm)lifesagift Wrote: So anyone care to take on where population will go in the next 200 years?
As society developed from subsistence to leisured affluence, people put off having children and death rate begins to approach now diminished birth rate, so population levels off.
If wealth continues to spread around the world (on the whole there are lot more people in the world reaching leisured affluence each year than dropping back to subsistence poverty) eventually diminished birth rate will spread to all continents and human population as a whole will level off.
the poor will continue as is, and produce children with no food and disease, so I accept they will remain constant, albeit with slightly increased numbers due to medicines reaching more regions.
But religious based, developing countries will continue to have as many sons as they can, and increase dramatically. They already make up half the population, so they will create health and food problems surely, as well as much conflict and wars?
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