In less than 40 years.
Two generations.
Our Earth won't resemble the digital pictures and otherwise records will leave as comparison.
It is NOT a 'belief system.'
It is scientific and verifible fact.
Quibbling about birth control and population control seems so hideous and ridiculous.
A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognisable" world by 2050, warned researchers at a major US science conference.
The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.
To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognisable" if current trends continue, Clay said....
Two generations.
Our Earth won't resemble the digital pictures and otherwise records will leave as comparison.
It is NOT a 'belief system.'
It is scientific and verifible fact.
Quibbling about birth control and population control seems so hideous and ridiculous.
Planet Earth 'unrecognisable' by 2050 (click title to entry - thank you)
12:42 PM Monday Feb 21, 2011A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognisable" world by 2050, warned researchers at a major US science conference.
The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.
To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognisable" if current trends continue, Clay said....