Posted on 12/03/2021 3:25:21 PM PST by BusterDog
Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)” by saying that “if there's going to be any songs coming out of World War III, we’d better start writing them now.” Another preoccupation of the 1960s, apart from nuclear annihilation, was overpopulation. Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb was published in 1968, a year when the rate of world population growth was more than 2 percent—the highest in recorded history.
Half a century on, the threat of nuclear annihilation has lost its imminence. As for overpopulation, more than twice as many people live on the earth now as in 1968, and they do so (in very broad-brush terms) in greater comfort and affluence than anyone suspected. Although the population is still increasing, the rate of increase has halved since 1968. Current population predictions vary. But the general consensus is that it’ll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now. In most countries—including poorer ones—the birth rate is now well below the death rate. In some countries, the population will soon be half the current value. People are now becoming worried about underpopulation.
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Another “Scare Bomb” that we need to ignore. All the others were BS and dried-up. Just deride, denigrate and laugh at them.
Remember, mommy,
I'm off to get a Commie,
So send me a salami,
And try to smile somehow.
I'll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now!
&^%$^ off assholes. Kill yourselves soon and stop sucking off of us for your living.
My electrical Engineer Dad disgustedly cancelled his subscription to SA in the 1980’s.
I’ll worry about it in 2100.
More Doom Porn from our degenerate and idiomatic overlords.
Good, let us enjoy whatever time we have left then. Go away.
Typical Brit lefty buffoon.
As a Neanderthal, I hope that Homo Sapiens enjoyed their time dominating Earth.
I have heard of over populated Japan and India. My thoughts are that Japan and India would be better places to live if those nations were less crowded. Probably such a statement applies to many Latino nations that are constantly sending their extra populations to the USA. And then again, the USA might want to stop paying unwed girls to have babies. Just suggesting that population statistics can be convoluted and one size fits all catagories may not be a perfect way of viewing the Human Race.
I dropped mine in disgust around 1975....
I know that now…I committed a violation of the strict Freeper code of ethics - always read the article prior to posting. I saw the word overpopulation and freaked out and didn’t read anymore.
Ruining the immune systems of 3/4 of the human population isn’t going to help slow down the trend.
Well, if we can’t figure out who is a boy and who is a girl then not sure if humans deserve to continue.
Naw, unconscious population control.
“I can drive for like an hour and a half where I live and not even run into any humans. Weird.
I’ve always assumed that people who think that have never left a big city in their lives.”
My wife is from China and I have been all over the country. With the exception of the big cities, most of it is very sparsely populated.
Chicago is supposed to be under a mile of ice by now, according to 1970 prognostications of THE COMING ICE AGE.
It might be an improvement. I’d settle for 50 feet.
>> “I can drive for like an hour and a half where I live and not even run into any humans.” <<
That’s pretty good driving.
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