There are now 7.5 BILLION people who inhabit Earth.

[TurtleWA]

Scientists say that the Earth can only support 9-10 billion. I’ve never seen this chart until I started googling stats. I never realized how populated India and China are. How can you feed and provide medical care for that many people? That’s impressive.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TurtleWA

Scientists say that the Earth can only support 9-10 billion.

No. Less.

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-just...s-for-the-year

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

No. Less.

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-just...s-for-the-year

I’m going to turn into one of those preppers if I keep hearing things like that.

[CyberCubed]

Does China still have that law of only 1 kid born for each family? India and China have always been overpopulated.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Does China still have that law of only 1 kid born for each family? India and China have always been overpopulated.

It became a two-child policy in 2016.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

It became a two-child policy in 2016.

Preparing for colonization of this delicious Siberia, when Russia will crumble.

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Preparing for colonization of this delicious Siberia, when Russia will crumble.

Do you live in Russia?

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by TurtleWA

Do you live in Russia?

Yes, and our Eastern territories bordering Chine is pretty much already belong to Chinese in everything, but law.
They cross borders with no problems, set up their own shops and companies there, local Russian population learn Chinese and so on.

"Curiously" Russian government doesn't care about this, despite it's rhetoric about "patriotism and national Russian values", because, Chinese businessmen, tied to China government, pay good money.
So much for patriotism.

[CyberCubed]

It's actually pretty funny when you realize most of Russia is in Asia. For some reason people tend to forget this, it borders nearly all the Asian countries as well as the middle east and countries like India and Pakistan.

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Yes, and our Eastern territories bordering Chine is pretty much already belong to Chinese in everything, but law.
They cross borders with no problems, set up their own shops and companies there, local Russian population learn Chinese and so on.

"Curiously" Russian government doesn't care about this, despite it's rhetoric about "patriotism and national Russian values", because, Chinese businessmen, tied to China government, pay good money.
So much for patriotism.

I lived in Alaska for awhile when I was younger. I remember walking past the Russian Church. The design was amazing looking.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's actually pretty funny when you realize most of Russia is in Asia. For some reason people tend to forget this, it borders nearly all the Asian countries as well as the middle east and countries like India and Pakistan.

Alaska is near to Russia as well. Some say you can even see Russia from Alaska.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's actually pretty funny when you realize most of Russia is in Asia. For some reason people tend to forget this, it borders nearly all the Asian countries as well as the middle east and countries like India and Pakistan.

Sure, but most of the Russian population lives in the European part of Russia. And also, most Russians are European/Caucasian.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Sure, but most of the Russian population lives in the European part of Russia. And also, most Russians are European/Caucasian.

There a lot of ethnic minorities in Russia. Most of them are dying out though, since young people move into big cities and take upon "mainstream" Russian culture.

In general, lots of territories in Russia are empty, especially in Siberia. So, technically if Russia had thriving population there would have been place for people to move to. But, as of now, Russian population is going down, due to economic situation.

Our government actually makes small steps to make people move into uninhabitable lands of Siberia, but most people do not want to leave normal cities and move who knows where.

[Ninjinister]

There are now 7.6 BILLION people who inhabit planet Earth!

Time to get busy

[sdp]

As countries get more educated they stop having so many children, it's not only the G8 countries that have this problem, many G20 countries like Mexico already saw the number of birth peaks in 2008 so new births have gone down since and will soon be facing the same problems of an aging population like G8 countries.

There's just so many countries that lack this education and resources, African nations are actually going to be the biggest problem going forward as their population is going to grow quite a bit as will their power, this is why China is happily investing all over the continent. China is also investing all over latin america. The chinese population has grown quite a bit all over latin america.

[Papenbrook]

Originally Posted by Papenbrook

There are now 7.6 BILLION people on Earth!

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

... which is reaching to 7.7 BILLION people!

[IndigoErth]

Lets just hope the Earth doesn't decide that it needs to lose some weight. lol

[Andrew NDB]

Population control isn't even being remotely encouraged. Even China is moving to remove their two child limit. This will be 10 times worse in 5 years. "Green New Deals" (even globally) and the like won't save us.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Population control isn't even being remotely encouraged. Even China is moving to remove their two child limit. This will be 10 times worse in 5 years. "Green New Deals" (even globally) and the like won't save us.

It is not in any nation's short term interests to promote population control, because an increasing population helps makes a country more wealthy and powerful.

Plus, many people will go crazy if they're barred from reproducing, it is an instinct which is almost as strong as getting food and water, I'd argue.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

It is not in any nation's short term interests to promote population control, because an increasing population helps makes a country more wealthy and powerful.

Plus, many people will go crazy if they're barred from reproducing, it is an instinct which is almost as strong as getting food and water, I'd argue.

European countries and countries like Japan and South Korea are gonna face population crisis in the next decades.

One thing a lot of American tourists and people from several African and Asian countries notice when they visit Europe is that there's a lot of old people everywhere. If you go to a village in Europe it's likely that there's 1 young person for every 15 old people.

[Leo656]

The line between "wealth and prosperity" and "complete and total poverty" is deceptively thin. I'd argue strongly that we're just about at the limit.

Population control is objectively the correct thing to do, but it's "mean", so... instead everyone's just gonna gnash their teeth and wail about "Someone should do SOMEthing" for a few years until we're all standing on a breadline. Because Real Solutions require bloodletting and sacrifice, and when it comes down to brass tacks, ain't nobody interested in that.