World Population: In the Wall Street Journal's 11/16 edition was a article that the UN announced the World Population has reached 8 Billion people. In 1927 the population was only 2...

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Nov 21, 2022 16:47:57 #

Robert Willson Loc: Palmetto, Florida

In the Wall Street Journal's 11/16 edition was a article that the UN announced the World Population has reached 8 Billion people. In 1927 the population was only 2 Billion and in 1950 had grown to 2.536 billion.

Do you think this has caused Climate Change? More demand for material things, Houses, Car, Fuel for cars and Heat.

It seem that everyone wants to blame our climate woo's on energy companies, oil companies, but overlook the basic cause.

Nov 21, 2022 17:17:06 #

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Watch out. You'll end up in the attic.

Nov 21, 2022 17:31:03 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

≈4x as many
cars;
houses heating, cooling, cooking;
passenger air flights;
freight air flights;
trucks transporting goods;
goods manufactured; ...

Volcanic eruptions, water draw down, ...

Nov 21, 2022 17:53:12 #

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Longshadow wrote:

≈4x as many
cars;
houses heating, cooling, cooking;
passenger air flights;
freight air flights;
trucks transporting goods;
goods manufactured; ...

Volcanic eruptions, water draw down, ...

I would increase some of those numbers. When I was a kid in the '40s, probably only half the local families had a car, and then it was one car per family. Now it's one car per person (new houses are increasingly being built with 3-car garages and even older houses have expanded the garage space). Passenger air flights have multiplied too. I never got onto a plane until the '50s, and then maybe twice a year. Now airline travel is really common (at least before Covid). More things are now shipped by air than way back then. Consumption is also up. So these numbers grow faster than the population.

A lot of people think that humans are driving climate change. Others think it is driven by natural processes. I think that climate change is occurring, no matter what the driver might be. And climate change is a threat that we should address now before things get REALLY out of hand. Humans have to slow the change in climactic conditions whether or not it's their fault.

Nov 22, 2022 05:16:26 #

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Robert Willson wrote:

It’s obvious to the thinking person, there’s way too many Humans on the planet. When it reduces to manageable numbers, it means ppl will have to work harder to keep up the lifestyle we’ve had.

Nov 22, 2022 06:59:12 #

Dan Thornton Loc: Corpus Christi, Texas

Nov 22, 2022 07:25:52 #

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Reducing the human population would work well as long as you're not part of that reduction.

Nov 22, 2022 07:33:21 #

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

Longshadow wrote:

≈4x as many
cars;
houses heating, cooling, cooking;
passenger air flights;
freight air flights;
trucks transporting goods;
goods manufactured; ...

Volcanic eruptions, water draw down, ...

Well, this is simply a silly (if not stupid) statement - the vast majority of population increase has been in African countries and India (with China thrown in) - and four times as many cars might amount to another 400 cars.

Is overpopulation a problem - no doubt. Does the WEF want to depopulate (and is the Covid jab one method of performing that?) - yes.

I'm all for depopulation, but i want to be the one who decides who goes first. And I'm sure many other fols feel the same way. Alas, the scum in Davos does not care for my opinion (possibly because they would be among the first on the list)

Nov 22, 2022 07:33:35 #

stbg1951 Loc: Lewes, DE

I have been saying that for years. The chart from the UN shows it. Lay it over historic charts of most problems we face today I’ve found it’s pretty close to a match.