Planet could be unrecognizable by 2050

[JohnK]

A growing population relying on fewer natural resources could make Earth unrecognizable in 40 years.

As the Earth's population grows and our demand on the planet's diminishing resources increases as well, scientists believe that by 2050 our planet will be unrecognizable. We will consume more in the next 40 years than we have in the last 8,000. The solution, they believe, is to have better family planning.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council. To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

full article: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=201065

It makes me wonder what the state of the earth will be like by 2100, and I'm not feeling good about it. Am I the only one that finds this quite frightening?

 

[Safe__me]

we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000

Honestly you believe that? Latest official current world population estimate, for mid-year 2010, is estimated at 6,852,472,823. So an extra 2.2 million people are going to eat 7960 years worth of food. I highly doubt it.

Year Population
1 200 million
1000 275 million
1500 450 million
1650 500 million
1750 700 million
1804 1 billion
1850 1.2 billion
1900 1.6 billion
1927 2 billion
1950 2.55 billion
1955 2.8 billion
1960 3 billion
1965 3.3 billion
1970 3.7 billion
1975 4 billion
1980 4.5 billion
1985 4.85 billion
1990 5.3 billion
1995 5.7 billion
1999 6 billion
2006 6.5 billion
2009 6.8 billion
2012 7 billion
2027 8 billion
2044 9 billion
2050 9.2 billion

Thats a rough estimated timescale and population for previous and future years. Yes the growth rate is alarming but no way in hell are what the 'scientists' said going to be true. If it is we suck it up and plan for world war 3.

All information found here: http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm?nl=1

 

[Meeder1]

Maybe this i why i don't agree to the whole Help feed the other countries thing, maybe it makes me a bad person, and yes i know the children didn't choose to be born in such an over crowded area, but if its going to lead to the downfall of ALL of us, take one for the damn team :S

 

[malakadang]

Maybe this i why i don't agree to the whole Help feed the other countries thing, maybe it makes me a bad person, and yes i know the children didn't choose to be born in such an over crowded area, but if its going to lead to the downfall of ALL of us, take one for the damn team :S

Theres a common misconception that you hold.

Yes it is the 3rd world countries that are the reason our population grows at such an alarming rate.

However it is because, the women get raped, there is no sex education, there is no birth protection.

I forgot the terms but if you study population, the shape of graphs is consistent between modernized countries and 3rd world countries.

I think a modernized countries population spread looks like this:

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This is the trend of modernized societies, the higher the pyramid, the older the age.

However with 3rd world countries, it is consistently different.

Instead of being spread out like that, it looks a bit like this.


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You get the picture, they simply don't survive to live an old age.

Sure you could decide not to feed them, however you must educate them, give them birth control, give them basic sex education, as well as arithmetic etc. If a condom was made available to every person wanting to have sex in these countries, then less people will be born.

EDIT: Lines messed up and can't fix them here's a link to what I mean for a 3rd world country http://geographyyr10.wikispaces.com/PYRAMID

 

Maybe this i why i don't agree to the whole Help feed the other countries thing, maybe it makes me a bad person, and yes i know the children didn't choose to be born in such an over crowded area, but if its going to lead to the downfall of ALL of us, take one for the damn team :S

I don't agree with the help other countries thing at the moment either.
The government spend millions helping other countries then 10 seconds later they announce they are in debt by billions, what do they do... Go and spend another few hundred million on some other country.
Some people in the UK are poor and they need help, why help others when you can help your own.

Back to the thread..
Yeh I think in 40 years this will happen, people are consuming more, living longer and having sex more.

Safe__me where on earth did you get your statistics from?
Without a reference of where you got the information for all we know you just made that up.

 

[needcashplox]

The article is all bullshit. Same predictions were made in 1950-2000. I remember I was reading an old article where they were saying, that in 1980 there will be no oil or other non-renewable resources. LoL. And I don't think it's bad that we have more and more ppl on a planet. We still have space for like trillions

 

[Burdock`]

Honestly you believe that? Latest official current world population estimate, for mid-year 2010, is estimated at 6,852,472,823. So an extra 2.2 million people are going to eat 7960 years worth of food. I highly doubt it.

2.2 million? Don't you mean 220 million. o back to school or learn to use a calculator.

Theres a common misconception that you hold.

Yes it is the 3rd world countries that are the reason our population grows at such an alarming rate.

However it is because, the women get raped, there is no sex education, there is no birth protection.

I forgot the terms but if you study population, the shape of graphs is consistent between modernized countries and 3rd world countries.

I think a modernized countries population spread looks like this:

-
---
-----
-------
---------
-----------
---------
-------
-----
---
-

This is the trend of modernized societies, the higher the pyramid, the older the age.

However with 3rd world countries, it is consistently different.

Instead of being spread out like that, it looks a bit like this.


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----------------
----------------------

You get the picture, they simply don't survive to live an old age.

Sure you could decide not to feed them, however you must educate them, give them birth control, give them basic sex education, as well as arithmetic etc. If a condom was made available to every person wanting to have sex in these countries, then less people will be born.

EDIT: Lines messed up and can't fix them here's a link to what I mean for a 3rd world country http://geographyyr10.wikispaces.com/PYRAMID

Yes! Geography for 14 year olds is going to solve ALL the worlds populataion problems.

The article is all bullshit. Same predictions were made in 1950-2000. I remember I was reading an old article where they were saying, that in 1980 there will be no oil or other non-renewable resources. LoL. And I don't think it's bad that we have more and more ppl on a planet. We still have space for like trillions

New oil wells and stuff have been drilled. If we carried on using only the ones that were around when this prediction was made then we would have run out by 1980.

I don't agree with the help other countries thing at the moment either.
The government spend millions helping other countries then 10 seconds later they announce they are in debt by billions, what do they do... Go and spend another few hundred million on some other country.
Some people in the UK are poor and they need help, why help others when you can help your own.

I agree, help your own people before you help others. But to help the West can cancel debts to the poorer countries at no cost to themselves. When a country is in debt to another the UN starts organizing the country's spending by cutting funds to schools and hospitals and stuff to free money up to start paying the other country back. No debt = more money to spend of education and stuff.

 

[Safe__me]

Link added.

 

[Meeder1]

Theres a common misconception that you hold.

Yes it is the 3rd world countries that are the reason our population grows at such an alarming rate.

However it is because, the women get raped, there is no sex education, there is no birth protection.

I forgot the terms but if you study population, the shape of graphs is consistent between modernized countries and 3rd world countries.

I think a modernized countries population spread looks like this:

-
---
-----
-------
---------
-----------
---------
-------
-----
---
-

This is the trend of modernized societies, the higher the pyramid, the older the age.

However with 3rd world countries, it is consistently different.

Instead of being spread out like that, it looks a bit like this.


----
----------
----------------
----------------------

You get the picture, they simply don't survive to live an old age.

Sure you could decide not to feed them, however you must educate them, give them birth control, give them basic sex education, as well as arithmetic etc. If a condom was made available to every person wanting to have sex in these countries, then less people will be born.

EDIT: Lines messed up and can't fix them here's a link to what I mean for a 3rd world country http://geographyyr10.wikispaces.com/PYRAMID

I know what your talking about by the lines, and i suppose we COULD just give them education, and the proper tools to slow their birth rate, but i assume it would be easier to just not feed them :x. I see this as abit wrong myself, but until my country solves its own problems, i dont think we're in any shape to solve others ^_^

 

[Gurtaton]

Genocide, anyone?

But yeah, we're in pretty dangerous times here. If only people could control their sexual desires...

 

[malakadang]

I know what your talking about by the lines, and i suppose we COULD just give them education, and the proper tools to slow their birth rate, but i assume it would be easier to just not feed them :x. I see this as abit wrong myself, but until my country solves its own problems, i dont think we're in any shape to solve others ^_^

You basically have just accepted that both both options would help alleviate the problem.

Option 1 - Immoral, to let them starve to death. (You can look up the excruciating pain that happens when one starves to death)

Option 2 - Moral, to educate them.


But I do agree with you the argument that, we've got our own homeless to feed first. However theres one shocking truth. The government doesn't care.

Yes! Geography for 14 year olds is going to solve ALL the worlds populataion problems.

We could start by killing idiots like you, however there would be too much paperwork involved.

 

[FacelessVoid]

There should be mandatory 2 kids per family.

 

[wtp]

Maybe this i why i don't agree to the whole Help feed the other countries thing, maybe it makes me a bad person, and yes i know the children didn't choose to be born in such an over crowded area, but if its going to lead to the downfall of ALL of us, take one for the damn team :S

That's true. If we keep feeding them, they'll never learn how to create food of their own, and they'll keep reproducing.

 

[OwenWant]

Feel sorry for ppl in the future lol.
Never know.. mite find new ways of living o_0

 

[I_DONT_BOT]

2050 will affect most of us
2075 will affect most of us (if life expectancy raise is true)
2100 will affect the lucky few of us

Anything after that will affect our Children, Grandchildren etc.
Think about their future, not just ours.

 

[Ed!tr]

I think the world needs to open up there eyes.... if this goes on my children wil be in a fucked up world and maybe i will live to see that...

There is going to be some big changes up coming 10 years... think of fuel and food...

 

[fongle]

Maybe they should consider putting a limit on the number of children you're allowed to have. I see people having 5+ kids(even in my own family) and it's just selfish and disgusting. Either that or use a condom.

 

[JohnK]

Maybe they should consider putting a limit on the number of children you're allowed to have. I see people having 5+ kids(even in my own family) and it's just selfish and disgusting. Either that or use a condom.

A limit on children is too hard to control and birth control isn't that easy to come by in 3rd world countries. Not to mention it's against some religious beliefs to use contraception.

 

[HappyFace01010]

Lets bomb china and then we are down over a 1 billion people. Or we could always stop giving black people money for having kids.
(Not intended to be racist at all)

Anyway, if we all went back to living on the basics, we would be good.

 

[djinn]

Don't worry...Before 2040 there will be few big wars...Maybe even WW3