CI Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 About to top 7 billion At a time the human race seems to be in a very difficult place, what happens next ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 what's next? some emerging economies will need to find adequate housing for their ever booming population, and then put an end to the culture of having loads of babies by putting the aforementioned droves into adequate education and providing adequate jobs for these people to go into after. before that, a few wars will kill a few million, some flooding will take care of people in low-lying countries, droughts/famine/disease will do a job too. nothing much will change here. it's fun making wild predictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 20, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2011 Same thing thats always happened - we continue to spread. We will do so until we no longer can survive, which may take some time as we like no other sentient being can exploit our surroundings to our own end. The world is quite capable of supporting more people comfortably and healthy. Unfortunately that does not mean to the extent of comfort we enjoy, and certainly less than that the US does. That the rising powers want that life too will make things awkward for us - they already are in fact. (In time, this may/will lead to major armed conflict again). Most of what we might perceive as life becoming 'difficult' a great many people on this planet would kill to enjoy. 'First world whine' is the unkind term (and not one I particularly agree with, but hey). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I think Dinosaurs are overdue a comeback. Then it's every man, woman and child for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Unforseen technological breakthroughs, climate change, the struggle for resources (water next) and general religious lunacy make it difficult to call. A workable society model is required now, or our ancestors will be cursing our legacy for the next x thousand years. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 **** em. As long as the world doesnt go to shit before my grandkids are pushing up daisies then I am kinda cool with being comfortable on the back of oil and subsidised farming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 That's the worst thing. We know what we're doing is bad, and just don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 the culture of apathy, innit. real change comes from anger, and it's hard to be angry when you have a roof and an xbox360 to come home to after a working day. the corporations won, man. to quote a wonderful film. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 The Illuminati will have to create some more diseases to release upon us and keep our numbers in check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Far too many people on the planet, who shall we cull? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 On the radio the other day they were talking about a huge new breakthrough in the treatment of malaria that will save hundreds of thousands of lives, particularly in Africa... I did wonder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 About to top 7 billion At a time the human race seems to be in a very difficult place, what happens next ? 8 Billion ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 21, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2011 About to top 7 billion At a time the human race seems to be in a very difficult place, what happens next ? 8 Billion ? Nah, that won't be for ages. My money's on 7 billion and one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 looks like we could do with a nuclear war after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingysilvers Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 looks like we could do with a nuclear war after all China v US It's an accident waiting to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 well the 2004 tsunami hit what minimum 300k? it's not the volume we'd be looking at to help keep the population on an even keel. space exploration is the only answer for me. another cool thing would be some kind of supernatural EMP blackout which would take out all electronics. then everyone can panic riot etc, whilst everyone tries to work out how to view past episodes of Ray Mears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 hmm I think I see where the problem areas are However the population of China is expected to stabilise, the population of India is expected to continue breeding out of control: Good thing they are about as athletic as a sloth else half the footballers in the world would probably be Indian by 2030. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 What we should be doing is investing more in the sciences.. The UK *AIM* to inevest a mere 2.5% of UK GDP by 2014.. Really? The U.S *AIM* to invest 3% of their GDP.. The leading country is Japan - no suprise - but even they only invest 4%.. we need to invest more that this.. we really do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 If you go on a reality tv show you should be made infertile first Also if you like marmite you should be too AND if you watch strictly cum dancing too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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