World Population to Top 9 Billion by 2050, 49% Growth from Africa

[ZombieHorde]

The global population is expected to top seven billion in 2011. By 2050, it's expected to exceed nine billion. By 2100, it's expected to rise to 10 billion.

The figures were cited by a Harvard School of Public Health press release about a review article of Professor David Bloom published in Science.

The global population growth is expected to be highly uneven geographically.

In certain developed countries like Japan and Germany, it's expected to stay flat or even decline. In the coming decades, these countries could face a demographics crisis as society fails to produce enough adults to care for the elderly.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/189522/20110729/population-growth-billion-developing-2050.htm

I blame attractive people.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. I expect that with peak oil and climate change we will have at most 5 billion by then.

The die-off should be well underway in poorer countries, and spreading ever upward on the socioeconomic ladder.

[FLPanhandle]

2. Exactly.

What's happening now at the Horn of Africa will become more common and in more places.

Eventually, even 1st world countries will be dealing with famines.

Unfortunately, we will strip this planet bare looking for food during the die off.

[ZombieHorde]

7. How did you come up with 5 billion? Just a guess, or have you

read a report of some kind?

[Systematic Chaos]

8. It is a guess, but an intuitive one based on an amalgamation of info I get form this forum.

And I'm definitely not claiming to know a lot, either. :)

[FLPanhandle]

3. I don't think you are allow to discuss this here.

It makes people uncomfortable and then there's the deniers.

[amborin]

4. forget other species; habitat is being rampantly destroyed

[FarCenter]

5. It won't happen -- there is not enough food production in the high-growth countries

Climate change and peak oil will limit food production. Famine, epidemics, and war will limit population growth.

[JDPriestly]

6. Right, FarCenter

[theophilus]

9. It will not happen. The other posters have it right. The numbers may vary

but unless the whole world gets very busy doing the right things the population is going to start moving downward soon.

[LetTimmySmoke]

10. I blame a reistance to contraception and women's reproductive options.

That needs to be a condition to any kind of trade openness whatsoever.

[Urban Prairie]

11. Guess that I should hope that we don't reincarnate b/c I don't think that I would

like being reborn into an over-population of 6-9 billion energy and nutritionally starved on the planet, around a century after I was born. I pretty much already dislike, if not outright despise the 21st century as it is so far, and I truly doubt if it will get any better, when we are using up all of our natural resources and polluting/poisoning/irradiating the land, seas, and air. I once read many books of science-fiction and spaceflight, and daydreamed as a child in the sixties with the manned moonflights, that we might be able to colonize other planets by perhaps as early as the middle of this century, but instead it seems like we're going completely in fucking reverse as far as evolving further just as a civilized and "advanced" society, thanks to the backwards-thinking, education-hating, warmongering and sociopathic rightwingers. Dark Ages, here we come!!