6,275,283,237 People worldwide (vanity)

vanity ^ | February 17, 2003 | self

[Ron H.]

6,275,283,237 People worldwide oppose the anti-war protesters in its efforts to support Iraq.

www.Antiwar.com is quoted as saying on its website that 30,000,000 people worldwide joined in their anti-war protests over this past weekend. Well, according to the International Programs Center at the U.S. Bureau of the Census website and www.Antiwar.com's own figures that would mean that the remaining 6,275,283,237 people around the world DID NOT join their efforts to give aid and comfort to the world's most ruthless dictator.

Now, I don't know just what kind of percentages that works out to but considering the number who did not join them exceeds those (by a wee bit) who did and thus puts their numbers in a different light to this writer. Naturally the leftist media won't be telling you about those numbers now will they!? I think not.

[Ron H.]

I just think it helps to keep things in perspective when throwing out numbers like 30,000,000. What do you think? I even question that number but considering how many that DID NOT support them is more awesome than the 30mil number they bandy about as the braggarts they are known to be.

[maica]

Many of those 6 billion are alive because of the advances in agriculture instituted and, in many areas, supported by the United States. World population has doubled since the end of World War II, and the US gets no recognition for this - much less gets any thanks.

[Pilsner]

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6,275,283,231 people worldwide

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

That would be approximately one out of every 200 people... or .48% ................... I think

[Ron H.]

Over on Houston Independent Media Center over the weekend someone in one of their after action reports were using a 1 in 600 number. I don't really know either.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Gee whiz...that means that even fewer people support war since even fewer people turned out for pro-war demonstrations. Are you willing to follow your own logic to that conclusion?

[TomB]

Many of those 6 billion are alive because of the advances in agriculture instituted and, in many areas, supported by the United States. World population has doubled since the end of World War II, and the US gets no recognition for this - much less gets any thanks.

You've hit on one of my favorite topics, as well as a man who redefines the word "hero", yet practically nobody knows him:

Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity

(Norman) Borlaug is an eighty-two-year-old plant breeder who for most of the past five decades has lived in developing nations, teaching the techniques of high-yield agriculture. He received the Nobel in 1970, primarily for his work in reversing the food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960s. Perhaps more than anyone else, Borlaug is responsible for the fact that throughout the postwar era, except in sub-Saharan Africa, global food production has expanded faster than the human population, averting the mass starvations that were widely predicted -- for example, in the 1967 best seller Famine -- 1975! The form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

arent you supposed to say 30,000,000 divided by 6,275,283,237 ???? That comes to point48 percent or .0048 and that would be one in 200.

I had to estimate as my little calculator here in office does not do numbers that big, though

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Well you do have a point here..... but this is the exact reason that the founders feared a true democracy. If you leave it up to the majority (masses of stupidity)to make major decisions, then those decisions will be bad and based on the "logic" of the masses.... greed, envy to name a few, rather than on real logic.

[Kevin Curry]

www.Antiwar.com is quoted as saying on its website that 30,000,000 people worldwide joined in their anti-war protests over this past weekend.

And consider: 30,000,000 is almost certainly a pumped-up figure; it might have been 3,000,000, or only 300,000. The peacenik detritus at antiwar.com is an agitprop shock battalion fighting for Saddam Hussein's very life and freedom. Honesty in reporting will necessarily be the first and quite deliberate casualty if the stablity of your core existence requires you to help foil or at least frustrate an attack on the lying Butcher of Baghdad.

[aruanan]

Now, I don't know just what kind of percentages that works out to

~0.478% A little less than one half of one percent.

[Austin Willard Wright]

The founders were worried about the masses to be sure. The were equally worried, however, about the power of unchecked political elites. Given a choice, I'll cast my lot with the masses.

[Ron H.]

No!

[KC_Conspirator]

The numbers are intentionally inflated to drive the %70 of American people who support ousting Saddam into believing otherwise.

[Austin Willard Wright]

No! is it? Sorry to confuse you with the facts and ruin your morning.

[Ron H.]

Don't worry, you didn't and couldn't even if you tried to.

[SandRat]

You're using the "Louis Farhekan Million-man Math" Book again, aren't you?

We told you not to use that book. Now put it back where you found it, that's right,...under desk rear leg because that's the fix we can get around to a real repair.

[maica]

Thanks for the link. Here is another part of the reason why this topic is not mentioned 'in polite company.'

"Another reason is that Borlaug's mission -- to cause the environment to produce significantly more food -- has come to be seen, at least by some securely affluent commentators, as perhaps better left undone. More food sustains human population growth, which they see as antithetical to the natural world."

[Terriergal]

Gee whiz...that means that even fewer people support war since even fewer people turned out for pro-war demonstrations. Are you willing to follow your own logic to that conclusion?

IMO public demonstrations mean very little in light of reality. The rest of us were working or had more important things to do. What counts is action when the rubber hits the road. That is where we will see what our country is made of, not by filming/photographing a horde of screaming immature liberals.

[LiteKeeper]

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