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7 Billion
PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:53 am
by Cognitive Gear
National Geographic is running a year-long series on our growing population, and they created
this video to kick it off. It's pretty interesting, and they have a page dedicated to this special series
here.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:25 am
by Dante
ITS OVER 9000!
Sorry couldn't help myself. Ah, Malthusias would likely roll over in his grave at our major population growth, but I do think that it should be fine for a while to come - at least if we start to be less greedy in destroying our resources and don't waste vast quantities of precious metals and energy on killing one another. That is to say, if we use our world wisely and conservatively, it could provide a wonderful habitat for humanity to thrive on for generations and generations to come.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:36 pm
by Nate
Pascal wrote:That is to say, if we use our world wisely and conservatively, it could provide a wonderful habitat for humanity to thrive on for generations and generations to come.
We're doomed.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:17 pm
by blkmage
That exponential curve was kinda scary.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:50 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
Heh, that's cool.
PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:15 am
by Warrior4Christ
SBS need to update their "six billion stories and counting" motto then....
blkmage (post: 1448490) wrote:That exponential curve was kinda scary.
It's closer to a logistic function in the long term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function