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Old 11-02-2011, 06:01 PM   #1528
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Thank you for posting this, AJ. Though it's very unpopular to talk about population and to impose self limitation, better that we do that than have it imposed upon us by famine, water shortages, epidemics and disasters.


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Sometime Monday, somewhere on the Earth, the population of the planet will cross seven billion. If we keep growing just as we are right now (and blessedly the overall planetary birth rate appears to be tapering off and converging toward the replacement rate) we're going to hit 8 billion somewhere between 2025 and 2030 and 9 billion around 2050.

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