Earth to run of of food by 2050?

[random3434]

I loved the movie, but it scared the hell out of me!

It was very well done which makes it very dark and very disturbing. Honestly I'm not sure I'll watch it again.

You live in Northern Virginia, your food is definitely gonna run out..heh.

And people who live in Pennsylvania will have to eat coal.

 

[Ringel05]

I loved the movie, but it scared the hell out of me!

It was very well done which makes it very dark and very disturbing. Honestly I'm not sure I'll watch it again.

You live in Northern Virginia, your food is definitely gonna run out..heh.

Not with all the people we have here now.
(Note to self: File teeth.)

 

[westwall]

Just more drivel from the alarmists trying to either seperate you from your money or control your life because you're not capable. Amazingly enough they've been saying this for hundreds of years and still the world goes merrily on its way.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Well, there are several billion people now. At some point will reach capacity.

One interesting side note on population growth is that people slow down breeding when a sufficient number of the kids of their generation live to make a new generation. Starvation seems to act as a stimulent to large families. As does war.

Adam Smith noted that in poorer areas there were always many kids, but few made it to adult hood. It was not rare in his time for a woman in Scotland to bear 20 kids, and see one reach marriageable age and have children of their own. The situation in Ireland was comparable, but there a woman could have 20 kids, and have none survive. In England, families were smaller, but survival rates were higher, and among the rich, large families were very rare.

So if you want to slow down population growth, the answer is better nutrition. And fewer wars.

The 1920s saw huge families all over. The 1930s, families were small. Again, after the last world war, there were huge families to replace those that had been killed off, but by 1960, families started to taper, and by the 1980s the big bump in births was mostly due to children of the baby boom having their own small families.

 

[007]

Good thing I know how to hunt, fish and plant a garden.

I better stock up on seeds.

YOU GOT IT BROTHER...

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[Ringel05]

Well, there are several billion people now. At some point will reach capacity.

One interesting side note on population growth is that people slow down breeding when a sufficient number of the kids of their generation live to make a new generation. Starvation seems to act as a stimulent to large families. As does war.

Adam Smith noted that in poorer areas there were always many kids, but few made it to adult hood. It was not rare in his time for a woman in Scotland to bear 20 kids, and see one reach marriageable age and have children of their own. The situation in Ireland was comparable, but there a woman could have 20 kids, and have none survive. In England, families were smaller, but survival rates were higher, and among the rich, large families were very rare.

So if you want to slow down population growth, the answer is better nutrition. And fewer wars.

The 1920s saw huge families all over. The 1930s, families were small. Again, after the last world war, there were huge families to replace those that had been killed off, but by 1960, families started to taper, and by the 1980s the big bump in births was mostly due to children of the baby boom having their own small families.

Wars, disease and famine are natures way of "culling" the human herd. The current world population estimate for 2010 is 6,887,800,000 people.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Peak food.

Oct 31, 2011 we reach Peak Aboo.

Dont worry We will have the greenm
Soylent green
Food made:
By people
Out of people
For people

 

[Douger]

Yup we are gonna all boil to death any day now..... Or wait, I mean freeze to death.... oil will run out in 1986, err wait I mean some time soon..... 6 billion people are to many we will all starve to death, err wait not till 2050.

Got anymore?

Just one.
12/21/2012

 

[Samson]

Better start saving those can of green beans and Tang now!


Impending Crisis: Earth to Run Out of Food by 2050? - Yahoo! News

The important thing is we'll still have plenty of marijuana plants growing.

 

[editec]

We can no more predict these sort of things than we can predict the value of the Dow in 2050.

Too many completely unpredicatble things could happen to change the trendline.

 

[JWBooth]

Peak food.

Oct 31, 2011 we reach Peak Aboo.

Dont worry We will have the greenm
Soylent green
Food made:
By people
Out of people
For people

"...so that a diet of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth."

 

[007]

Whether it's a year from now, or fifty years from now, on the serious side, if the earth's population keeps growing at it's present, non liner, exponential rate, there WILL come a time when there won't be enough food to feed everybody. Look at Africa now.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Malthus was not first in describing population growth as geometrical.

If you took computer science back in the 80's Fibonacci numbers were a good way of testing your coding chops to see whether you should continue the course, or go to some basket weaving degree. Fibbonacci was describing rabbit populations, but even with this, it is easy to see the thing is bogus. When you get to the 100th generation of a fibonacci number, you reach a number that is nearly 160 digits. Actual population growth doesn't work at this level.

 

[westwall]

Whether it's a year from now, or fifty years from now, on the serious side, if the earth's population keeps growing at it's present, non liner, exponential rate, there WILL come a time when there won't be enough food to feed everybody. Look at Africa now.

The planet reached its peak human growth rate in the mid 1960's. Since then it has dropped to the point where even soem 3rd world nations are not experiencing the growth they once were. At the height the rate was 2.02 people being born, that has dropped to around 1.95 and is still dropping.

And as we all know the best way to end the population bomb is to destroy the Third World. I prefer education to do that as it harms far fewer people, but there are some who would choose to do it the old fashioned way, such as below.

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

[boedicca]

Peak food.

Oct 31, 2011 we reach Peak Aboo.

Dont worry We will have the greenm
Soylent green
Food made:
By people
Out of people
For people

ROFL! When I saw the Damien Hirst skull a couple of years ago, I so wanted to shout out "Soylent Green Is People" as we walked through the pitch black corridor.

 

[Samson]

Peak food.

Oct 31, 2011 we reach Peak Aboo.

Dont worry We will have the greenm
Soylent green
Food made:
By people
Out of people
For people

ROFL! When I saw the Damien Hirst skull a couple of years ago, I so wanted to shout out "Soylent Green Is People" as we walked through the pitch black corridor.

You

Are


WEIRD!!

 

[Conspiracist]

Better start saving those can of green beans and Tang now!


Impending Crisis: Earth to Run Out of Food by 2050? - Yahoo! News

I'll take the tang

 

[uscitizen]

Better start saving those can of green beans and Tang now!


Impending Crisis: Earth to Run Out of Food by 2050? - Yahoo! News

I have a bunch of fruit cakes, they will still be good then, right?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

diamonds may crumble, but fruitcakes are forever.

 

[Samson]

diamonds may crumble, but fruitcakes are forever.

Ironically, I like Fruitcake, but I hate JenyEliza.