World Population Grows Beyond 7 Billion

First time accepted submitter assertation writes in with a LA Times feature about the booming world population and the strain it puts on the environment and governments. "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."

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Re:Just Stop!

[teg]

How many of those people starve to death everyday? People who cannot provide for their kids need to make a conscious effort to stop having them.

It usually works the other way - when child mortality rate is high, you hedge your bets by getting more children so at least some grow up.

Re:Alarmist

[ichthus]

Religion has very little, if anything to do with it [youtube.com].

fixed that for you

[OrangeTide]

Biology got us into this situation.

Re:Good news everyone

[man_of_mr_e]

Your question is too vague. Do you mean what percentage of people fall within the top 1% of personal wealth? That doesn't have a 1:1 correlation with population.

"top 1%" requires definition of what the 1% applies to specifically, and how it's measured.

For example, suppose you add up all the total wealth, then take 1% of that and figure out how many people are in that category? You will come out with a different number than if you take the wealthiest person and the poorest person, and take 1% of that range and figure out how many people fall in that 1%.

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Re:Colonization

[DesScorp]

The Netherlands?

Not the same situation. While you can also question the wisdom of "reclaiming land from the sea" as the Dutch have done, they did it in modern times using dikes. Further, the Dutch have a stable landmass with bedrock underneath. New Orleans literally goes away over time without fresh annual flooding, as it's nothing but delta silt built up over time with no bedrock underneath. People can't live with flooding, but without flooding, the landmass eventually goes away. New Orleans may be the single worst place to build a city in North America. And nothing we do can change that.

Re:What nonsense

[Algae_94]

The birth rate decline in western nations correlates best with raising educations. If this is the true cause, improving educations in third world nations is the solution. A more educated populace will decide on their own that having so many children is a bad idea.