World Population Reaches Nine Billion

World Population Reaches Nine BillionAugust 15, 2050 - Earlier this morning a new-born girl outside of the city Djambala in the Republic of Congo was born, and became the symbolic nine billionth person in the world. The 23-year-old mother Makemba Ngollo said that she was very happy for the arrival of Titi, as the baby will be called.

Titi is purely a symbolic choice by the UN, since it is impossible to know where the exact nine billionth person is born, since several children are born every second around the world. The choice of a baby from the Republic of Congo coincides with their national holiday today as they celebrate 90 years of independence.

 

Argument: According to United Nations' World Population Prospects 2004 Revision, the world's population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050, with India as the most populous nation, with a projected decline in fertility to slightly over 2 children per woman in 2050 (from 2.6 children in 2004). Even though the administrative system will be more efficient in the developing parts of the world by then, it will still be difficult to determine the exact number of people in the world.

Questions: What affects on the world will the increase of the world?s population with almost 50% until 2050 have, which of course will be unprecedented in human history in number of people? Are there necessary steps that have to be taken to make sure that we for instance produce enough food for such a huge population?


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This is very alarming.
With this population am sure poverty and hunger also increases.
Thanks

Overpopulation is pretty much the only problem humans really need to solve these days. Almost every "problem" people are concerned with these days is really just a symptom of the underlying problem, overpopulation. Global warming, shrinking resource base, contaminated food and water supplies? They all come down to 6 billion people living on a planet that seems to have a maximum sustainable capacity of 3 to 4 billion.
Of course, population control is a non-starter for a lot of reasons, all of them political, self-serving and extremely short-sighted.
At one time, the most successful creatures on the planet were anaerobic bacteria that thrived in the primordial toxic soup of methane, ammonia and water vapor. They ruled the planet, in their own single-celled way. They emitted oxygen as a waste product. They became so successful, releasing such a vast quantity of free oxygen as a waste product, that they altered their environment to the degree that they pretty wiped themselves out and set the stage for the next group of dominant life forms, which were able to thrive in the newly oxygen-rich environment.
That sounds like where we are headed. Any efforts to reduce global warming without addressing the underlying problem of too many creatures who emit carbon dioxide as a waste product (in a multitude of ways) is likely going to delay, but not prevent, our eventual demise.

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What is the maximum, minimum and average population of the planet for the next 500 years?

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Are some people more aware?

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Population is driven towards equiblirium. What is the sustainable human population of the planet earth?

What is the sustainable animal population of the planet?

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1) There is about 134 Million sq Km of Land on the Planet.

2) There should be about 10 people to the sq Km.

3) 134 Million times 10 People = 1340 Million People.

So, there should be about 1.5 Billion people on the planet. That is what we would estimate to be the sustainable population.

What should we do with the excess population?

1) Create a Virus to kill off the excess population.

2) Wage a global war to kill off the excess populuation.

3) Create a creature that kills off the excess population.

4) Send the excess population to other planets.

5) Other options.

Education of women is the key, and delaying marriage. Women who are less educated tend to have more kids.

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This is extremely alarming!

though its sick the guy called excess population is kinda right

though its sick the guy called excess population is kinda right

This means Real Estate will become extremely valuable right?

every one needs to fucking wear a condom for 10 years. and stop this "fair trade" bullshit.

Don't worry before this happens some weird lunitic will come and kill Billions of people before we reach this number....or even better ALEINS

BIRTH CONTROL! Free! and lots of it! and comprehensive sex education, not just in the US, but all over the world. If we give our young people the tools to make better, more informed decisions about sex, we would see a decrease in the spread of STDs and a decline in teen (and adult) pregnancies.

Birth control. that’s it. Condoms, pills, cheep vasectomies. It could save the world.

A global order must be set and a governing body must be introduced and a global depopulation will be imposed.Millions will be sacrificed to save humanity as poverty grows so does humanity.A virus will be created, our food will be tampered with, every one on the planet will be chiped like animals,technology will enslave mankind,fear of war on the verge,forced vaccinations for men and women alike,laws obeying these laws will be imposed, one child policies will be global all currency will be combined in to one, this 9 billion estimate will never happen as long as we have no control over our lives.you have been warned

World Population increases
World problems increase
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thats is pol shit
no one can know what will bee in future only GOD

Location Land People Density
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America 25M 250M 10/KM
Hispanica 17M 170M 10/KM
Africa 29M 290M 10/KM
Eurasia 54M 540M 10/KM
Oceania 10M 100M 10/KM
Antartica 15M 1M 1/KM


Europe 10M 100M 10/KM
Russia 14M 140M 10/KM
Arabia 8M 90M 10/KM
India 5M 50M 10/KM
Malaysia 5M 40M 10/KM
China 12M 120M 10/KM
Eurasia Total 54M 540M 10/KM

It is race religion nation species war.

Most of humanity 99.93% will be killed off.

Most of the animals 99.97% of them will be killed off.

Millions will survive.

In a thousand years there will be Billions of people again.

In a thousand years there will be Trillions of animals again. All the different kind.

Money, Power, Lifeforce.

They paid you, yes, they paid with their life force.

Why do that? Cause it is the agreement that Nature gave them.

Will you live through it? There is an average chance of that.

Will I live throug it? There is an average chance of that.

Your species and race will survive.
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You people are all quite ignorant. Overpopulation is not a problem. At all. It is a myth, trust me. There is enough room for everyone, so get over it.

Here's an idea to reduce "overpopulation!" Make abortion illegal so people won't be so slutty and they can understand that there are consequences of sex.

Abstinence is the ONLY way to prevent pregnancies. Abolish abortion!

Thomas - Can you provide data? Your assertion that overpopulation is a myth lacks any factual underpinning. Further, the data that contradicts your assertion is everywhere (as I daily observe farmland re-purposed for McMansions and read news items about overpopulation-induced poverty and political disruption).

Crimilizing abortion has failed to prevent abortion every time it's been tried. No law can make people not 'be so slutty'. We're animals, we have a reproductive drive. Paradoxically, we have become so successful at reproducing that it is threatening out survival as a species.

The fact that there is nothing we can do is mitigated by the fact there is nothing we have to do. The planet will take care of it. It may not be pretty, but life will continue on Earth, maybe not human life, but life. I'm rooting for the bird or swine flu, something that will thin the herd without killing off the species.

Abstinence, due it's extraordinarily high failure rate, is possibly the least effective method to prevent pregnancies. Besides, why would you even suggest a method to reduce population if it's not a problem?

I guess when your worldview is fundamentally at odds with reality, it's often hard to keep your stories straight.

Thomas,it is nut cases like you that are resposible for the planet having the poulation problem because you don't see a problem for whatever reason,religon?or just stupid?So the mass murders in Africa where millions were hacked to death weren't because of crowding?Living conditions in Bangladesh,Philipines,India,China,Africa,Haiti,Soa Paulo and Rio de Janero Brazil and other horribly crowded places is not because of human density?Every place I've ever lived in the U.S. was once a relaxing pleasant place to be,then beacme crowded forcing me to move on.You are an idiot and like the masses of other non conserned idiots on the planet will get what you deserve when the Earth picks it's own plan to thin the population.

Wow, with only a few exceptions everyone posting on this topic is a complete nutjob. My favorite suggestion is creating a creature that will kill of the excess population. Is this guy's brain completely fried? Oh, and Golden Halo must be typing with a pencil in his teeth, straightjackets make it a little tough.

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