Did you know that the worlds human population has doubled in the past 50 years?

Question

And tripled in the past 80 years!

Does this fact alarm you as much as it did me?

And why is it increasing at such an alarming rate?

And did you know that was Jesus Christ was supposedly born there were only 300,000 people on the Earth?

Answer 1

Yeah, where is everyone gonna go??

Answer 2

It is called "exponential growth." That sounds like a pretty reasonable doubling rate for humans; assuming that each woman has on average, about 4.2 children that survive as adults. This is actually one of the *slowest* reproductive rates in the animal kingdom!

Most rodents, if given a sufficient food supply, and an environment free of predators, diseases, and competition, can theoretically double their population in 1 to 2 months. Some bacteria can do so in less than 1 hour!

The reason the human population continues to grow at an exponential rate, is that we have no natural predators, few serious diseases, no competitors(besides ourselves), and we seem to be pretty adept at getting food(for the present)

The fertility rate among native US citizens is only about 1.8, significantly less than the ideal replacement rate of about 2.1, so the native population is actually *shrinking!* The only reason the total population of America continues to grow is because of immigration....

In "sub-Saharan" Africa, the birthrate is still very high, about 5-6, but because of poverty, famine, war, AIDS, and other diseases, a large number of individuals are dying young, before they have many children, so in some countries the population is only growing very slowly....

At the time of Christ, the world population was probably around 300 - 400 *million*; not 300,000.

~Donkey Hotei

Answer 3

It is estimated by 2050 there will be somewhere between 12 and 20 billion people.

We eventually do reach a point where the Earth itself, cannot feed or shelter the numbers that are born.

Answer 4

Once backwards countries are now becoming forward countries, like India and China. More money means better healthcare which means more people living. People aren't dying like they used to. Populations in Western countries is actually stabilized.

Answer 5

Your question evidences a finished loss of understand-how of the term Fascism and Fascist which leads me to think of which you have an equivalent fake effect of Socialsim and Socialist. besides, the wanting that's that the extreme of the two gadget ends up in comparable government -- oppression, confiscation of non-public and private property, suppression of opinion, mandated textbooks in the faculties, the knock on your door in the lifeless of evening of evening........

Answer 6

I didn't know that. I live in a med- high class town ,mostly whites. These people have more than that standard 2.5 kids. I see 3 & 4 kids now. plus many twins . GOD BLESS

Answer 7

Yes. I think we will be standing on top of each other soon! The main reason for this is better health care.

Answer 8

Maybe its because the world is a better, healthier safer and more prosperous place than ever.

Super-Enviro-Saints Al (Gore) and Mike (Moore) seem to think thats a bad thing somehow.

I wonder what do they suggest we do exactly -- regress or maybe mass sterilizations, I dunno...

Answer 9

have no idea what answers u seek but....
imho... finding a good hairdresser and a parking spot is hard enough already!! lol!!

Answer 10

Sex. The more people made, the more they make. Any more questions?