tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post1870613339528857556..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: Halloween's Scariest Number: 76,000,000Bill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-16050104445320161922013-01-21T10:36:05.215-05:002013-01-21T10:36:05.215-05:00The worlds current population is not sustainable n...The worlds current population is not sustainable now without affordable fossil fuels. Food production and transport is oil based. Megadoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507132110939297753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-48241800220503735532012-11-01T19:49:53.727-04:002012-11-01T19:49:53.727-04:00In the seventies I kept tabs on a large nest box t...In the seventies I kept tabs on a large nest box that had started with two rats with access to a metered amount of food that never changed. It was too much at first, but as the population grew exponentially it became too little. What was the most interesting, as the population began to fight over the food, and disease weighed in, was that the food again became too much because the males lost interest in procreation and the population died out. It was haunting. But humans have viagra now so no such luck.<br />gravedaycentralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-3437602199741093732012-11-01T11:16:45.228-04:002012-11-01T11:16:45.228-04:00If one accepts Guy MacPherson's theory, no one...If one accepts Guy MacPherson's theory, no one will be alive here in 2050. I've pretty much stopped paying attention to population number scenarios because those who make them do not take into consideration all those possibilities that factor against their scenarios. There will be far more conditions working against population growth in the near future than working for it, as Gaianne mentions above.<br /><br />Glad to have you back. Thanks for writing!Mylornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-37527339399879319302012-10-31T21:52:31.017-04:002012-10-31T21:52:31.017-04:00Don't worry about population growth. Not that...Don't worry about population growth. Not that it isn't bad-of course it is bad--it's just that nobody is going to do anything about it.<br /><br />As it happens, though, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Disease, Famine, War, and Death) are fully capable of taking care of the problem. <br /><br />And they will. <br /><br />--Gaianne Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-59971619409436548662012-10-31T18:00:28.539-04:002012-10-31T18:00:28.539-04:00I've been curious about that, too. The populat...I've been curious about that, too. The population has done nothing but exponentially grow, and it's been growing far faster than most predicted. And yet the predictions for 2050 and 2100 are that somehow it will slow and even level off.<br /><br />The only way that happens is if: 1) the entire world reaches the same level of affluence that the West currently enjoys, or 2) we simply can't feed and give good health care to everyone. The predictions never mention either of those two scenarios, so I wonder if it's just hope-based prediction, as if they know it's a problem and they're just working the numbers to make it less ominous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com