Global Population

[LazyGun]

Since my birth, global population has more than doubled - I think that is kind of scary, and mind-bogglingly quick.......

See how much global population has increase since you date of birth...

http://www.guardian.c...orlds-population-born

[dave50]

There is too much obsession in keeping people alive no matter what. The advances in medicine are interfering in nature's natural selection where disease and malnutrition would normally control the population of the world without our interference. The population increasing at this rate is unsustainable but nothing will ever be done because of the 'life at all costs attitude'.

[Elderman]

Well what, though, of the future? Will people have to go on enduring such harsh realities of life indefinitely? To complicate matters, what about the doom and gloom that environmental scientists and others are forecasting as a result of the continued population growth? They tell us that we are fouling our own nest by polluting the air, water, and soil we depend on. They also point to the greenhouse effect—emission of gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (refrigerants and foaming agents), that will result in warming of the atmosphere and changes in the global weather pattern, with dire consequences. Will this finally bring about the demise of civilization as we know it?

[boxtops]

I agree with dave. While it is wonderful that people live so long, and very prem babies now survive, this isn't the way it used to be, so many more people survive respectively, on top of the increased birth rate. There is also this desperation that every woman needs a baby - the fact I couldn't was something I came to terms with years ago - there is no compulsion for IVF and similar procedures.