World population explosion

[Boob Johnson]

Ok........so there is currently 6.6 BILLION of us buggers on this wee molten rock & we are using WAY more resources than we can sustain. Global demand for many major resources are going through the roof as China & India are gearing up. So what will it be like in 2020 when the estimated population hits 9 BILLION!!!

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

Obviously some "culling" needs to happen just like happens to all the other animals.



So my questions are...........


Who will it be?

Has it already started?

Will agencies stop sending aid to natural disaster areas?

Will we return to a time with more personal responsibility? ie: survival of the smartest.



Interesting times are upon us

[cowboyz]

be a good start getting rid of all the zuki riders......... then honda........... then yamaha........... Leaving the kwakas to rule the world..


yes I know I only mentioned 4 jap makes cause the rest arent really bikes now are they?



















Out of the 6.66 BILLION how many do you think I just put off side?

[Gubb]

Logan's Run and Soylent Green have the answers.

[Boob Johnson]

Out of the 6.66 BILLION how many do you think I just put off side?

lol Cowboyz

Logan's Run and Soylent Green have the answers.

Have seen Soylent Green many moons ago, great movie & well ahead of its time. Can't remember much of Logan's Run, will have to watch it again.

[McJim]

Yes I know I only mentioned 4 jap makes cause the rest arent really bikes now are they?

Hmm... yes the 'Other' Manufacturers of whom you speak were making motorcycles when the Japs were still invading China....so the Jappas are really just copies.
As for Culling - that's what world wars are for innit? Only problem is the resulting baby boom at the end of each!

[Boob Johnson]

As for Culling - that's what world wars are for innit? Only problem is the resulting baby boom at the end of each!

And the last two haven't "culled" enough

[Romeo]

If You don't think it's already happened - what do you think "Ethanol" fuel is?

Biofuel production is equivalent to a new tax on food that starves the poor in order to feed money to rich agricultural corporations.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, global food prices rose an incredible 40% in 2007, which qualifies as hyperinflation. The World Bank states that the cost of staple foods rose by 83% during the 3 year period from 2005 to 2008.

On December 19th, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law the "Energy Independence and Security Act" (summary pdf 107kb), which mandates that 36 billion gallons of biofuels be produced in the United States every year by 2022, a nearly fivefold increase over current production levels. Ethanol (vodka minus H2O) and "biodiesel" (a.k.a. cooking oil) are made from food or inedible crops which displace normal agricultural activity. Biofuel crops include corn, soybeans, rapeseed (canola oil), sugarcane, palm trees (palm oil), and cassava, as well as experimental "second generation" crops such as switchgrass, jatropha, giant reed, hemp, and algae.

In 2007, 54% of the world's corn was grown in the United States, and an ever increasing percentage of that crop ended up in gas tanks instead of stomachs. The corn required to fill the 18.5 gallon gas tank of a Toyota Camry with ethanol could feed a human being for 270 days. Ethanol production took only about 6 to 7% of American corn in 1998, but has grown as a cancer on our food supply, taking somewhere between 30 to 38% by 2008. Readers should be warned that it is very difficult to get an honest figure on exactly how much U.S. corn is currently being turned into fuel, because ethanol is such a hot political issue for the Bush Administration, Bush appointees at the United States Department of Agriculture, and the giant biofuel manufacturers themselves.

Biofuel production will contribute to the avoidable deaths of at least
between 10 and 20 million people in the year 2008. Economists
estimate that 30 million people could be going hungry in Bangladesh
alone. 4 billion humans live in poverty, and biofuel production will
push millions of the poorest families into the clutches of death,
thanks to our leaders turning mountain's of food into fuel. Unless
the biofuel bandwagon is stopped, by the year 2020 the world will be
diverting 400 million tons of grain each year into ethanol production,
which is equal to the entire current global rice harvest. There have
been food riots in 22 countries, and 33 nations face political
instability as staple food prices have risen 83% in the last 3 years
according to the World Bank. Biofuel production is equivalent to a
new tax on food that starves the poor in order to feed money to rich
agricultural corporations.

[Dargor]

Yea, this is an issue that we as a civilization need to address.

[Coyote]

be a good start getting rid of all the zuki riders......... then honda........... then yamaha........... Leaving the kwakas to rule the world..

Then they might start winning races!


Bio fuels are shit, they're just a way for governments to be seen as giving a shit about the environment.

[Coyote]

Out of the 6.66 BILLION how many do you think I just put off side?

Perfect number innit?

[Boob Johnson]

Perfect number innit?

668 - The neighbour of the beast

[Dave Lobster]

KFC is killing off the lowest life forms, isn't it?

[Boob Johnson]

KFC is killing off the lowest life forms, isn't it?

You're still alive ain't ya Dave?

[NinjaNanna]

The answer seems simple to me, HAVE LESS CHILDREN.

If the global birth rate can be kept under 2 then the global population should fall in a consistant manageable manner.

Sure there will be short term financial burdens as there will be an over abundance of older citizens that will require suppurt through their twilight years but it should only be temporary.

[Edbear]

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