World Population Soars Past 7 Billion!

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/population/

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Beyond 7 billion

After remaining stable for most of human history, the world's population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries.

About This Series

Los Angeles Times staff writer Kenneth R. Weiss and staff photographer Rick Loomis traveled across Africa and Asia to document the causes and consequences of rapid population growth. They visited Kenya, Uganda, China, the Philippines, India, Afghanistan and other countries.

Weiss, a graduate of UC Berkeley, has been a Times reporter and editor since 1990. He has covered politics, government, higher education, science and the environment.

Loomis has been a Times photojournalist since 1994. He graduated from Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's degree in photojournalism and a minor in Latin American studies.

He has reported extensively from Afghanistan, often accompanying U.S. Army, Marine or Special Forces units. He also covered the popular uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia and Libya.
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Imagine we soared passed 8 billion ... imagine how grateful we would have been if it was only 7 billion.

Well, it IS just 7 billion ... so let's be grateful.

Yeah, I know ... it's fuzzy logic ... but I'm on my way to bed, so you can't expect too much of me.
 
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Oh no, more people on Facebook and taking up all the good domains and emails :p
 
Time for global population control.

Yes, I'm well aware how that negatively affects labour forces and economies but it will eventually normalise. That or we can just breed ourselves into oblivion and experience a multitude of resource shortages.
 
Lets start with China and India. There, half the population is gone.
 
Ekstasis said:
How about SA's masses? How about an SA prezi being an example of how NOT to breed into the next millennium?
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South Africa is not overpopulated. Outside of the major metropolitan areas there are stretches of nothingness. Problem is the smallest provinces have the biggest populations.
 
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Damn, now we need to reduce by 2 billion people.
Great War or famine/hunger. which will it be ??
 
Garson007 said:
I sometimes wonder how people support an overpopulation theory, when predictions of it has been debunked daily for centuries. What exactly is different about today?
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Debunk it for me.

o·ver·pop·u·la·tion (vr-ppy-lshn)
n.
Excessive population of an area to the point of overcrowding, depletion of natural resources, or environmental deterioration.
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overpopulation (vr-ppy-lshn)
The population of an environment by a particular species in excess of the environment's carrying capacity. The effects of overpopulation can include the depletion of resources, environmental deterioration, and the prevalence of famine and disease
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There are entire continents that meet the above. You have your head firmly in the sand if you do not think overpopulation is a very real issue we face. Arable land, fresh drinking water and other resources are limited, while our need for them is limitless. And in pursuit of more and more arable land other environments are destroyed, the knock on effects having a negative impact on humans as well. Tearing forests down for farm land increases the rate of soil erosion in almost all cases. Not to mention the effects it has on biodiversity.

China grain imports at seven-year high as demand soars

Date April 12, 2012

GRAIN imports by China have risen to the highest level in at least seven years as the world's most populous nation stepped up overseas purchases amid rising demand.

China imported 1.64 million tonnes of cereals and cereal flour in March, from 280,000 tonnes in the same month last year. Imports in the first quarter totalled 3.84 million tonnes, up sixfold, the customs agency said on its website yesterday.

The world's fastest-growing economy is turning to foreign supplies as rising incomes spur increased food and livestock-feed demand and farmland is lost. Corn imports by China may surge sevenfold to a record 28 million tonnes by 2015-16.

''Grains imports are on a rising trend because of limited arable land, water and labour, at a time when demand is growing,'' said Li Qiang, the chairman and chief consultant of agricultural researcher Shanghai JC Intelligence Co.
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Now you tell me what the above does to world markets? Prices soar. And how does this affect everyone else? Poorer continents and countries have to pay more to feed themselves. And China is not the only one in this predicament. Add up all the others that are unable to meet their own demand and you start having a truly global supply-and-demand problem. And it is not limited to grain.

China's farmland has shrunk by 8.33 million hectares in the past 12 years, Chen Xiwen, the top agriculture adviser to the Premier, Wen Jiabao, said last year. Land under cultivation has fallen almost to the government's 120 million-hectare limit after being covered by apartments and factories, lost to desertification and used for a forestation campaign.
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A highly developed world at current population growth levels will eat and breed itself into oblivion.
 
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