9 Billion Human`s!
- 30 August 2010 12:0467939This month`s Royal Geographical Society issue is pictured above, with the main theme concerning human population growth. I`ve never been one for statistics, especially far future one`s, but one is surely right in this case, that the human population will reach 9 billion by 2050! That`s 2 billion more than at present. The scene is a theme park in Tokyo, but it could be any other place in the world. When you read of elephant`s, deer, seal`s and numerous other animal`s being culled on this planet because they`re taking our space, does it make you proud to be human? And what if some very advanced intelligent being`s arrived here, and viewed us the same way as we view other animal`s on this planet? Would we expect mercy if they decided to share this planet, but started culling some of us first to give them space? And just another point concerning other thread`s on the forum, if one of those pictured above was a child killer, would we really care if they were taken out and executed? Like it or not, we`re a selfish species, and that`s how we got to where we are now, but does anyone on here have any vision`s of what the future may be for us all, or what they`d like to see?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered. - 30 August 2010 12:1867941There'll be a population fall eventually and then it will oscillate between highs and lows. This is already happening in places like Italy where there's a problem with offspring staying at home with parents well into adulthood and not procreating because they can't afford to set up their own home.
That's very much a simplification of course because different countries and regions will have their own pressures and restrictions. A lot of studies and modelling have been done on other species, but with them Momma's home cooking and laundry service can't be factored in. - 30 August 2010 12:2367942colin
i will speak to chris precious and ask him to stop forthwith.
ray
i saw a news item about what you speak of in italy, it suggested that high levels of immigration were taking up many low paid jobs that the indigenous school leaver would normally move straight into. this of course brings about the situation where they never get a chance to build up some money to move into their own home. - 30 August 2010 12:3567946Come on Howard, we all need a hobby.
On overpopulation, nature will find a way and the tighter everyone crams into spaces the easier they make it for her.Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour - 30 August 2010 18:0767972Ray, that what you wrote about Italy is a fact; I also wrote about that some months ago on the Forum. In Italy, benefits as we know them for the unemployed do not exist. It is very saddening that the Italians have such terrible carers in their parliament, they deserve more and better than that. The Italians also think a lot of Britain and the British people. I speak fluent Italian.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 30 August 2010 19:0468001I no of a certain England manager they can have back .
- 30 August 2010 19:4868007There are two surefire methods to reduce and/or stem the growth if the human race.
Firstly, mass headcount reduction method:
Secondly, the Welsh contraceptive method:
- 30 August 2010 20:1568026that bottom picture looks like one of my exes, cannot be certain, memories get blurred.
just a holiday romance in the brecon beacons. - Jan Higgins
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30 August 2010 20:2068031That's a brave admission Howard.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 30 August 2010 20:2168033No Jan, I've been to the Brecon Beacons too. Didn't "bump" into Howies ex though.
