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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Not an expert in any of these fields, but a result from a quick google search showed population growth slowing and global warming increasing...? Just saying...
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A "quick google search" on global warming and population growth is like asking a politician's PR spokesperson if what the politician said was true...
Consider this. It took however long we've been on this planet until 1962 to reach a global population of 3 billion. 50 years later in 2012 the global population was 7 billion; we added 4 billion in only 50 years. We more than doubled the growth of all time in only 50 years. Only 6 years after 2012, we've passed 8 billion. We're adding more people at a rate faster than the rate between 1962 and 2012. It took 50 years to add 4 billion, we just added over 1 billion in only 6 years. If that rate simply stabilizes, doesn't increase, we'd be adding 1 billion every 6 years which means adding 4 billion in only 24 years; less than half the time it took to add 4 billion between 1962 and 2012.
There's no reason to expect the growth rate will stabilize. It's a matter of sheer numbers. If half the women in China simply have one child, that will add more people in 9 months than the entire population of the United States. And that's just China. India has reached 1 billion too.
We've got a problem.
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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
Pretty sure there would have to be some sort of "lag time" involved even if population growth was the only factor involved. And it wouldn't be as short-term as day to day or even year to year.
Norm
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Lag time? With regards to what? Not sure what you're saying.