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Would be helpful is there were fewer of us. A lot fewer of us. Say, less than 1 billion, preferably less than half a billion, or i could go lower and give a few other species a bit of living space as well.

We will either manage to reduce our numbers to manageable proportions or the world will do it for us.

In the meantime the situations we already have will only get worse, and each generation will increasingly live in a degraded  environment where we may end up eating each other because there's nothing else around.

Sounds like a bad case of Soylent Green.......

The most popular theory at the moment seems to be that population growth will peak in 2050, but after that it will stabilize at a manageable level.  

This TED talk is quite informative, despite the guy's annoying accent (he gets into talking about the birth rate at around 6.30).

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by Gypsy

The most popular theory at the moment seems to be that population growth will peak in 2050, but after that it will stabilize at a manageable level.  

This TED talk is quite informative, despite the guy's annoying accent (he gets into talking about the birth rate at around 6.30).

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Yep. Prof. Hans Rosling did a full length programme for the BBC, roughly saying that population would stabilise and everything is ok. 

Let's hope he is right. However, as the turning point probably arises at around the 13 billion mark (approx' just under twice the present world population of humans), then we won't necessarily avoid the negative side of overbreeding.

So it sounds like the usual shit - ok if you're rich. tough if you're poor.

Btw, Rosling is Swedish. I don't think swedish accents are annoying.

Cool. Let's hope he's right. There were some worrisome "ifs" in his theory, though.

True, but the hope is by that point we'll be more developed economically and technologically and therefore able to support ourselves. But yeah, there are a lot of 'ifs' in there and it will still mean a certain amount of lifestyle changes. These would probably affect people most in the developed nations if we have to sacrifice some of the luxuries of our current standard of living in order to protect the environment and support an aging population.

I've heard a lot of Swedish people speak English and actually like the accent, just never heard one that strange before.

by Gypsy

True, but the hope is by that point we'll be more developed economically and technologically and therefore able to support ourselves. But yeah, there are a lot of 'ifs' in there and it will still mean a certain amount of lifestyle changes. These would probably affect people most in the developed nations if we have to sacrifice some of the luxuries of our current standard of living in order to protect the environment and support an aging population.

I've heard a lot of Swedish people speak English and actually like the accent, just never heard one that strange before.

I haven't checked, but maybe he's from Skåne.

by MacBuddhaBurger

 

by Gypsy

True, but the hope is by that point we'll be more developed economically and technologically and therefore able to support ourselves. But yeah, there are a lot of 'ifs' in there and it will still mean a certain amount of lifestyle changes. These would probably affect people most in the developed nations if we have to sacrifice some of the luxuries of our current standard of living in order to protect the environment and support an aging population.

I've heard a lot of Swedish people speak English and actually like the accent, just never heard one that strange before.

 

I haven't checked, but maybe he's from Skåne.

Naaaa. Just checked. He was born in Uppsala. Same place as Obsidian.

Maybe he lived in Africa for too long.

Control the birthrate?

- What's your thoughts on this?

 China has/ had the right idea, but buggered it up with the preferential abortion of female fetuses. If the entire global population were to be limited to 1 per family [ which will not ever happen ] it would be nice. But I won't hold my breath. Eventually humanity will be swimming in oceans of its own feces and crying about it. But I will be long dead by then.