7 Billion people

[jem]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Eventually (and I won't begin to fathom when this happens) the planet can no longer sustain a growing population. There's just no way around that uncertainty.

We need FTL travel. We need to begin to explore our galaxy, and the only way that happens is if everyone is on board of the project.

My thoughts as well.

 

[pspr]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Eventually (and I won't begin to fathom when this happens) the planet can no longer sustain a growing population. There's just no way around that uncertainty.

We need FTL travel. We need to begin to explore our galaxy, and the only way that happens is if everyone is on board of the project.

We don't have, and aren't close, to having the energy and technology to get massive numbers of people off the planet to somewhere else to live. So there are two sinarios that could play out.

1) There Is No God - Famine and war will be the hallmark of mankind for the future. At least until a substantial percentage of the population is dead.

Or

2) There Is A God - He will arrive soon to save humanity.

 

[HATEtheRisk]

Quote from pspr:

We don't have, and aren't close, to having the energy and technology to get massive numbers of people off the planet to somewhere else to live. So there are two sinarios that could play out.

1) There Is No God - Famine and war will be the hallmark of mankind for the future. At least until a substantial percentage of the population is dead.

Or

2) There Is A God - He will arrive soon to save humanity.

Or

3) There is a God - but he will only care for us, when we are dead and on the other side.

We are here alive, because we are supposed to live, no god needed here.

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First, the nations must find together in peace.
Second, money must be disestablished.
Third, there may not be any rich or poor, everyone must be the same. Pure socializm....
Fourth, humans must respect nature and food and dont throw all the good food in the rubbish, while the poor people are starving.
Fifth, there must be birth restrictions, like in china. maximum 1 child per family.
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So long that is not made, humans, please shall not travel to other plantes, they would just do the same, pollute it and increase the numbers of people there, like a parasite......
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The solution for this problem ???, is like always the same,
WAR and dead of hundreds of thousands or millions of people.
Usually herefor the rulers of the world, choose the poor countries, and steal all the rescources from them, by the way.
And continue with live going on, as nothing would have been before.

WAR is the answer !!!

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from HATEtheRisk:

WAR is the answer !!! [/B]

wouldnt birth control free for all be cheaper?

 

[peilthetraveler]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Eventually (and I won't begin to fathom when this happens) the planet can no longer sustain a growing population. There's just no way around that uncertainty.

We need FTL travel. We need to begin to explore our galaxy, and the only way that happens is if everyone is on board of the project.

Maybe not really everyone on board...just a group of really smart people should do it. Look at how far we came in the last 200 years. If you lived in California, and wanted to get a message to someone in England, you had to write a letter, pay a fortune to have it delivered, then wait a year for them to get it and a year to get a response. Imagine telling someone from the year 1800 that in 200 years, you could send a letter (email) for free and the person would get it in less than 1 second. If you asked them how long it would take to invent a machine that could do that, I bet they would say 50,000 years or that it could never happen. Who knows...maybe in 200 years we will figure out how to bend space and time and not even need FTL spaceships. We can just transport to other planets through some kind of stargate.

 

[Grandluxe]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

http://news.yahoo.com/cheers-fears-world-population-hits-7-bln-084502012.html

Just reading this article and noticed the comments section and how all these people say "Theres too many people on Earth now! It's causing poverty!"

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. 2000 years ago there was only 200-300 million people on earth and nearly EVERYONE was in poverty.

The people who are in poverty now, 99% have always been in poverty throughout history. Increased world population didnt make them poor. Its just taking them longer to get out of poverty than it took us.

When the US was founded, there were about 3 million people here and poverty was great. Now there are 300 million people and there is very little poverty.

Any country today with a declining population is not getting better off. Thats a fact.

Consider this,

According to the data presented in the U.N.'s World Economic and Social Survey, the total number of poor in the world decreased from 1.9 billion in 1981 to 1.4 billion in 2005, when the last international survey was conducted.

This means that in 20 years, 500 million people have been lifted out of poverty.

But wait.

In China alone, the number of poor decreased from 835.1 million in 1981 to 207.7 million in 2005.

This meant that all global reduction in poverty during the last 20 years came from China's economic liberalization.

All those poor people who are no longer poor are Chinese, the rest of the 3rd world countries in the last 2 decades have seen no significant improvement and are still poor like shit.