[vannrox]

What does it matter...I'll be dead in 50 years...


But seriously, just compare the fixed land area against the exponential rise in population. Unless technology changes or unless the percentage of people per square foot of land changes, then there will be a point of climax. It won't be pretty.

[potato]

If any of you have a little patience and care about this issue and the undeniable math underlying it, there's a professor Bartlett from out West (maybe Boulder)that has an incredible lecture that everyone should see.

It's a realplayer file at:

rtsp://edison.ncssm.edu:554/programs/colloquia/bartlett.rm

it's 57 minutes long, but it's worth it.

[Lurker]

You could take every human being on the planet, give them a half an acre of land and they wouldn't fill up Texas.

There is no crisis.

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[Kay Ludlow]

But seriously, just compare the fixed land area against the exponential rise in population.

Did you know that the UN has revised their future population estimates downward several times? The rate of population growth slowed in the last 50 years.