(August 14, 2012 at 1:03 am)Cinjin Wrote: we're growing at a rate of 1 billion people per year.
More like 1 billion every 12 or years (and the rate is declining). But your point is well taken.
(August 14, 2012 at 1:03 am)Cinjin Wrote: I call bull shit. Huge steaming pile of bull shit.
It certainly oversimplifies the situation to the point of nonsense.
Regardless of what the actual numbers are, this rock has a finite carrying capacity that we're racing towards. If we don't take some measures, voluntary or otherwise, mother nature has a way of sorting this out - usually quite unpleasantly.
I for one limited myself to one child (and only had one after much deliberation - I was originally planning on none), and have undergone voluntary sterilization.
Unfortunately, it is not in my first-world, middle-class demographic where the problems of famine and overpopulation are most urgent, and so there is little I can personally do, beyond making my own reproductive choices and giving money for aid where I can. It's a question of logistics and food distribution, and is hampered in many regions by bullshit politics (Africa, for example). Those regions will obviously be hit first and hardest.
