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Post by Oskanowski on Feb 20, 2011 20:20:54 GMT -5
Planet could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say:news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110220/ts_afp/scienceuspopulationfoodWASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.
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).
"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.
The swelling population will exacerbate problems, such as resource depletion, said John Casterline, director of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University.
But incomes are also expected to rise over the next 40 years -- tripling globally and quintupling in developing nations -- and add more strain to global food supplies.
People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.
It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, experts told AFP.
"More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet," Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.
Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.
"For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices," said Bongaarts.
"We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning," said Casterline.Let's see what next huge disaster will be coming, they got to clear this population off pretty quickly. 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2011 20:24:46 GMT -5
Let's send half our population to Mars when we can have a human land on Mars.
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Post by slappy on Feb 20, 2011 20:26:31 GMT -5
We'll be fine.
The only thing I worry about is some people will believe it necessary to exterminate whole countries to "help" the rest of us.
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Post by Lewscher on Feb 20, 2011 21:21:19 GMT -5
Look whats happened to our dearest eart in the past, 1//2/10 hundred years.....  humans develop too quickly without thought of trace, so no wonder fuel price's are so high for starters, over population, go on from there  |
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Post by WCWA Online on Feb 20, 2011 21:37:10 GMT -5
by 2050, I'll probably be dead, so I really don't give a  what will be going on in Asia then. |
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Post by King Silva on Feb 20, 2011 23:11:03 GMT -5
I'll be like 60 so it will be weird to live in that time..
People need to stop having so many damn babies.
Wish they would just stop at 2 but you can't force them to..
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Post by Revvie® on Feb 20, 2011 23:13:56 GMT -5
I could care less....my ancestors weren't thinking of me as they trashed the world, and I wont be bothered to think of my descendants while I trash it myself.
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Post by JWC on Feb 20, 2011 23:17:01 GMT -5
more people more problems dont really know how to put it any other way |
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Post by TheNinthCloud on Feb 20, 2011 23:17:30 GMT -5
Maybe this means by 2050 we'll all have glasses?
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Post by slappy on Feb 20, 2011 23:19:50 GMT -5
I'll be like 60 so it will be weird to live in that time.. People need to stop having so many damn babies. Wish they would just stop at 2 but you can't force them to.. They can and they most likely will eventually limit people to x amount of kids. I'm not saying it's right but they have the ability to do whatever they want. |
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Post by DgenerationX092 on Feb 20, 2011 23:20:52 GMT -5
Im sorry but I would iniciate a plan to settle down the growth there. Call me a heartless bastard, but something needs to be done about these poor countries. If they stop having babies, there will be more food. Reading this solidifies the fact that I will send condoms to those countries before I ever think of sending food. Half of every male babies born in those countries should be castrated. No need to kill anyone, but take away their ability to reproduce. Extreme times call for "extreme" measures. Poor countries like that are contributing nothing to the world besides a wider spread of aids, and more babies. You would think over the last 50-60 years they would learn, but they're still primitive. I'm not putting the blame on them for not being up to date, but we need to show them that this isnt their world to up and that the technological world is more important. |
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Post by slappy on Feb 20, 2011 23:24:17 GMT -5
Im sorry but I would iniciate a plan to settle down the growth there. Call me a heartless bastard, but something needs to be done about these poor countries. If they stop having babies, there will be more food. Reading this solidifies the fact that I will send condoms to those countries before I ever think of sending food. Half of every male babies born in those countries should be castrated. Poor countries like that are contributing nothing to the world besides a wider spread of aids, and more babies. You would think over the last 50-60 years they would learn, but theyre primitive. So we need to show them that this isnt their world to up and that the technological world is more important. How about we castrate you and see how you like it. It's so awful that they aren't corrupted by technology or us. How dare they chose to not live like us. The monsters. |
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Post by Revvie® on Feb 20, 2011 23:32:36 GMT -5
Im sorry but I would iniciate a plan to settle down the growth there. Call me a heartless bastard, but something needs to be done about these poor countries. If they stop having babies, there will be more food. Reading this solidifies the fact that I will send condoms to those countries before I ever think of sending food. Half of every male babies born in those countries should be castrated. No need to kill anyone, but take away their ability to reproduce. Extreme times call for "extreme" measures. Poor countries like that are contributing nothing to the world besides a wider spread of aids, and more babies. You would think over the last 50-60 years they would learn, but they're still primitive. I'm not putting the blame on them for not being up to date, but we need to show them that this isnt their world to up and that the technological world is more important. The fact that I think you really believe what your saying is by far the greatest thing I have read in awhile.....thank you for that  |
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Post by DgenerationX092 on Feb 20, 2011 23:34:33 GMT -5
How about we castrate you and see how you like it. It's so awful that they aren't corrupted by technology or us. How dare they chose to not live like us. The monsters. ... I'm not multiplying like ing amoeba! My children will never be on a commercial asking for a 5-cent-a-day sponsor. I can't honestly fathom for one second why anyone living in those piss-poor conditions would have sex as a top priority on their mind. "Yeah, lets bring a baby into these sh*tty living conditions". Dumbasses. And they just dont learn. Like the third or fourth time will bring better living conditions? And you obviously are twisting my words just for the sake of argument. I clearly pointed out theyre not at fault for being behind in the ages. But they are at fault for multiplying and making life even more difficult for themselves. |
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Post by slappy on Feb 20, 2011 23:36:10 GMT -5
How about we castrate you and see how you like it. It's so awful that they aren't corrupted by technology or us. How dare they chose to not live like us. The monsters. ... I'm not multiplying like ing amoeba! My children will never be on a commercial asking for a 5-cent-a-day sponsor. I can't honestly fathom for one second why anyone living in those piss-poor conditions would have sex as a top priority on their mind. "Yeah, lets bring a baby into these sh*tty living conditions". Dumbasses. And they just dont learn. Like the third or fourth time will bring better living conditions? And you obviously are twisting my words just for the sake of argument. I clearly pointed out theyre not at fault for being behind in the ages. But they are at fault for multiplying and making life even more difficult for themselves. That could go for the poor here in this country. We should set a limit, you can't have kids unless you make more than, let's say, $500,000 a year. |
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Post by DgenerationX092 on Feb 20, 2011 23:40:46 GMT -5
... I'm not multiplying like ing amoeba! My children will never be on a commercial asking for a 5-cent-a-day sponsor. I can't honestly fathom for one second why anyone living in those piss-poor conditions would have sex as a top priority on their mind. "Yeah, lets bring a baby into these sh*tty living conditions". Dumbasses. And they just dont learn. Like the third or fourth time will bring better living conditions? And you obviously are twisting my words just for the sake of argument. I clearly pointed out theyre not at fault for being behind in the ages. But they are at fault for multiplying and making life even more difficult for themselves. That could go for the poor here in this country. We should set a limit, you can't have kids unless you make more than, let's say, $500,000 a year. I'm still waiting for a valid point. A quippy one-liner isn't a rebuttal. Either bring an actual counter-argument or stop quoting me, because at this point you're just trolling. |
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Post by slappy on Feb 20, 2011 23:42:46 GMT -5
That could go for the poor here in this country. We should set a limit, you can't have kids unless you make more than, let's say, $500,000 a year. I'm still waiting for a valid point. A quippy one-liner isn't a rebuttal. Either bring an actual counter-argument or stop quoting me, because at this point you're just trolling. LMAO. You have no valid arguments. Your post is all "They have so many kids. That s everything up. They don't have technology like we do. We are better than them because, well, America rules." Paraphrasing of course. |
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Post by Revvie® on Feb 20, 2011 23:45:16 GMT -5
That could go for the poor here in this country. We should set a limit, you can't have kids unless you make more than, let's say, $500,000 a year. I'm still waiting for a valid point. A quippy one-liner isn't a rebuttal. Either bring an actual counter-argument or stop quoting me, because at this point you're just trolling. I have a point for you. One big one is judging others who you dont clearly understand customs and cultures and assume because they are different then they must be wrong and must learn to stop procreating as every living thing does. I hope your maidenhood is still intact or your hypocrisy will bind you instantly. Or better yet the idea of anyone thing that technology is an answer to any question is funny just in the general sense. Each piece we design is either wasted or turned into a weapon. But otherwise, your point seems solid ;D |
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Post by DgenerationX092 on Feb 20, 2011 23:53:41 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a valid point. A quippy one-liner isn't a rebuttal. Either bring an actual counter-argument or stop quoting me, because at this point you're just trolling. LMAO. You have no valid arguments. Your post is all "They have so many kids. That s everything up. They don't have technology like we do. We are better than them because, well, America rules." Paraphrasing of course. Really? I dont know how old you are, but I will still be here in 2050. Living for tomorrow means planning today. We have to plan for them, because they wont. They get by on the skin of their teeth. So do some Americans, and that in-turn doesnt necessarily mean all Americans should reproduce. But it happens - its life. But its obviously happeneing way to much in countries that it shouldnt happen in. If poor countries are doing nothing more than mulitplying quicker than a calculator, and are at risk of just occupying space and eating all the food in the world, what good are they doing for the rest of us? You act like i'm trying to exterminate them. I'm just trying to figure out a way to make living better for everyone. So what if some males there can't reproduce? That way, they can screw all they want and not worry about consequences, since its sooo important to them. In 2050 I have no Idea what America will look like. But if we are evoloving ourselves, and everything around us as rapidly as we are now, America has a bright future. That goes for every country that follows suit. But I can tell you this, in 40 years I do have an idea about what Africa and Asia will look like, and if its going the rate they say it will, it wont be much different then now - sh*tty and overpopulated. |
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Post by DgenerationX092 on Feb 21, 2011 0:01:40 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a valid point. A quippy one-liner isn't a rebuttal. Either bring an actual counter-argument or stop quoting me, because at this point you're just trolling. I have a point for you. One big one is judging others who you dont clearly understand customs and cultures and assume because they are different then they must be wrong and must learn to stop procreating as every living thing does. I hope your maidenhood is still intact or your hypocrisy will bind you instantly. Or better yet the idea of anyone thing that technology is an answer to any question is funny just in the general sense. Each piece we design is either wasted or turned into a weapon. But otherwise, your point seems solid ;D Nowhere do I say that because they are different they are wrong. I say that because they are poor, they are wrong. If I was out living in the street, I would be worried about where my next meal came from, or what I will sleep on. NOT how quickly I can impregnate another hobo and bring in another mouth in the world that I can barely feed. See that's the problem: You guys just think I'm being selfish. I actually care enough to want to change things for them, not let them continue down the road their on, as you and Slappy seem to be so comfortable with. One of the things I've always wanted to do in life, should I become any kind of success, is help the poor. I never imagined helping anyone in other countries, but helping a bum on a local street when I pass by will make me happy. |
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