[GreyFriar]

and last evening I read an article on Slate that said at the current world birthrate, which is “actually delining” that in the next hundred years the world propulation would shrink from current 7 billion people to 1 billion people. A major reason, according to the author, is that the more educated women are, the fewer babies they have. Thus the world is facing a ‘depopulation crsis.’

Sounds like Slate has found the best solution to carbon crisis and global, depopulation means less people using carbon.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well....one conclusion from the article is that....use the moslem solution and stop educating woman....

Paging BG for her comments.

[Marine_Uncle]

With EBT cards being so prevalent, expect the US population to grow. Lots of money to be had for increasing the number of children one must care for,with no father figure present. :)

I'm out of here for a while. I have three realistic F35 JSF's I downloaded. Have to start checking out all the features each version, A,B,C provide. So off with me to Edwards AFB in the desert, to have some fun in Microsoft Flight Simulator with these new additions to my military aircraft.
Zooming into the wild blue yonder...

[a fool in paradise]

A major reason, according to the author, is that the more educated women are, the fewer babies they have. Thus the world is facing a ‘depopulation crsis.’

They need to see how things work in Idiocracy.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.youtube.com/results?q=get%20’em%20out%20by%20friday

Thanks Ernest and GreyFriar.

(IMHO) The population of China will shrink by at least 2/3rds, unless policy’s changed there; parts of the European Union will try to remain ZPG, but that doesn’t work, it will always lead to implosion; other parts (such as Poland and Germany) will grow in size; the big story will be in the US — the population will be at least one billion in 2100, and probably more like 3 billion, and possibly a good deal north of 3 billion; by that time Portuguese speakers in Latin America will outnumber Spanish speakers; the population of Africa will cycle through several boom-and-bust periods, but wind up even more urbanized than today, and analogous to today’s India in terms of level of education and economic development; the overall population of the Earth will be in the area of 20 billion, at the very least, and could be much higher than that, perhaps as high as 50 billion.

Earth colonies on Mars will probably be fairly numerous, but small and very isolated. There will be a permanent (though rotating) human presence in space, including in orbital stations around some of the other planets, and on the surface of the Moon.

[zot]

The human population has to decrease to make room for the hobbits.