Posted on 05/30/2026 5:15:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Scientists have mapped out a scenario of a global population crisis by the year 2064.
The research by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko, published in the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, uses a simple math equation to show how the world’s population has grown over the last 12,000 years. The model is then used to explore future possible scenarios.
One such scenario is that if Earth had an abrupt limit on how many people it can support, the global population could halve as early as 2064.
“Global population growth may be more sensitive to environmental and societal pressures than many traditional population models assumed,” Zaccone told Newsweek by email. “The study is not meant to predict the future with certainty, but rather to explore how human populations might respond under different stress scenarios.”
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Zero Population Growth (ZPG) back in fashion. Next is Nehru jackets.
Who funded this study? Bill Gates is at the top of my list.
She looks ill.
Like she hasn’t had a steak in years.
I’ll take the one in the top picture. I prefer the natural look.
I think she is more into seafood
It is well documented that even in the poorest countries, people are having fewer children.
The highest birthrate was Somalia and Yemen in 1985 at 9 children per women.
That rate has been halved since then and is still falling.
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She could use a little time in the sun ☀️
And then we could watch them all die of thirst and starvation, those who have not been murdered after we deposit them in a semi-desert, densely populated, without water and fertile soil. In only a few years our world is no longer Russ' world.
We are in the age of satellites, hypersonic missiles, and drones. The wars in Ukraine and Iran demonstrate that we are beyond the age of industrial warfare in which human bodies are not needed by the numbers, like ammunition. A mass of bodies subject to the draft will become less and less an indicator of national security and more and more a target and a liability.
We are not in the age of the Industrial Revolution in which we need bodies to work the production lines, farm the soil, transport the goods and provide a market for the efforts of the masses. Digitized production might well exceed demand, if we can figure out how to distribute oversupply to those who do not produce and still retain a democratic, capitalistic society.
We are entering an age in which populations will not be an asset but a liability, a body of demand for the production of goods and services done by robots, either owned by a few who are the objects of a Marxist expropriation, or the newly idle mass that must be sustained by the distribution of wealth.
The impetus over the centuries to increase population came in large part out of the need to provide for one's retirement. We are entering an age in which living 150 years is not perhaps out of the ordinary. We need a new paradigm for that age as well as for new military age and the new industrial age. Producing fairly employable people as a solution to Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Producing more people to clean bedpans for the superannuated is a Ponzi scheme too.
That new paradigm need not include, and should not include, population growth without end. There is much to be said about the Jeffersonian idyllic view of government and life enjoyed in a world of open spaces.
The population United States has more than doubled in my lifetime and the quality of that life has not doubled. Enough already!
Wonder weapons? My God, I don’t see the wonder in them. Killing without heroics. Nothing is glorified? Nothing is reaffirmed? No heroes, no cowards, no troops, no generals. Only those who are left alive and those who are left... dead. I’m glad I won’t live to see it.
-General George Patton
Man will be saved by nature as God designed.
If not by the faithful, ...
As sin dissolves society, children will be begotten.
For you youngsters reading this: purposeful sex, that is sex with the explicit purpose of pregnancy, is truly outstanding sex. Trust me on this.
Even in poor countries the number if kids per woman has dropped.
In India 40 years ago it was close to 5 kids per woman. Now it is 2.0 or below
The same for Bangladesh.
In sub saharan Africa and Pakistan it is still at 3 to 4 but 40 years ago it used to be much higher
Population of the world at the start of Sumerian civilization circa 5000 BC was about 10 million.
Population of the world at the time of cyrus the great who founded the Achaemenid Persian empire was about 50 million (and he ruled over 23 million!)
Wow.
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