To: John who wrote (60803 ) 11/24/2011 9:52:43 PM From: GROUND ZERO™ 2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 103300 Before the end of this century, the northern hemisphere where the United States currently sits will be nearly all hispanic and black, there will be very little europeans left, if any... also, the population will very likely be significantly reduced due to widespread starvation... anyone living here today would not recognize it in another 90 years, not that anyone would want to be here to witness it... For many thousands of years, the population of the planet was below 1/2 billion people... the number didn't change much, if at all... it was only very recently, in the late 1800's with the development of machinery and the refining of crude oil that the world population grew to 1.5 billion by the early 1900's... by 1950, the world population was at 3 billion people and is now at about 7 billion people... the development of the machine age and the use of fossil fuels enabled us to cultivate more farm land with bigger equipment, grow and harvest more food, and distribute it around the world in record time... we're currently in a population bubble which will grow to more than 12 or 15 billion well before 2050 arrives... the bigger the population bubble, the more vulnerable the population is to any legitimate disruption in the chain from farming to global distribution of our food supplies... the bubble will burst and billions of people, not millions, but billions of people will starve as has happened several times before in history when famine struck whole civilizations... think about it, the slightest disruption in the distribution of food and we see panic at the food stores, the shelves are empty... we see it every year with the threat of hurricanes, and that disruption is extremely minimal and temporary... any real and legitimate long term disruption would definitely result in massive global starvation before very long and the population bubble will burst with colossal catastrophic results... From Wikipedia: The world population is the total number of living humans on the planet Earth . As of today, it is estimated to be 6.977 billion by the United States Census Bureau . [1] According to a separate estimate by the United Nations , it has already exceeded 7 billion . [2] [3] [4] The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and Black Death in 1350, when it stood at around 370 million. [5] The highest rates of growth – global increases above 1.8% per year – were seen briefly during the 1950s, and for a longer period during the 1960s and 1970s. The growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and had declined to 1.1% by 2009. Annual births peaked at 173 million in the late 1990s, and are now expected to remain constant at their 2011 level of 134 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040. [6] Current projections show a continued increase in population (but a steady decline in the population growth rate), with the global population expected to reach between 7.5 and 10.5 billion by 2050. [7] [8] [9] en.wikipedia.org GZ