The model built around recent historical data suggests continued exponential growth in population:
#------------- Excerpt: According to population projections, world population will continue to grow until at least 2050. The 2008 rate of growth has almost halved since its peak of 2.2% per year, which was reached in 1963. World births have levelled off at about 134 million per year, since their peak at 163 million in the late 1990s, and are expected to remain constant. However, deaths are only around 57 million per year, and are expected to increase to 90 million by the year 2050. Because births outnumber deaths, the world's population is expected to reach 9 billion in 2040.[3][4] #----------------- Even if population growth levels off or even declines, the development of third world countries and the emergence of new economies around the world will continue to dump CO2 into the planet's atmosphere, exponentially. Regards, LelandJ On 01/08/2010 01:29 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> World population is growing at an exponential rate, which >> mean human induced pollution is also increasing >> exponentially. The current world population is about 6.75 >> billion and will increase to 9 billion by 2040. > > Hi Leland, > > Genetically Modified food is going to kill a lot of people and introduce > great famines which will cause people who can tolerate the GM to die of > simple starvation. Monsanto is the Microsoft of GM. > > Terrorism will spread throughout the world as the politicians will not > be able to grow the balls to do anything about it. That will kill as > many as any war. > > Medicare will morph into Obamacare. All the old people will die within > months of reaching retirement age. Uh, of natural causes, of course. > > Abortion will become mandatory, at least for non-politically correct > populations. Lots of dead babies in our future. > > Finally, as vast as the countryside is, there is plenty of room for 9 > billion - or 18 billion for that matter. They just won't all fit in our > current cities. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
