[blockquote][em]"By 2300 the United Nations forecasts that the global population will be just under 9 billion. World population is expected to rise, peak and then decline slightly between 2050 and 2300. The highest long term population growth is predicted for Africa. Africa is currently underpopulated and has the lowest life expectancies. Other regions' populations are predicted to stay level or decline. Between 2050 and 2300 the areas currently known as India, China, the United States and Pakistan maintain their ranked order as having the world's highest populations. The numbers shown here are estimates - based on predicted future behaviours."[/em][/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html"]WorldMapper's[/a] visualization of the world's population at year 2300 is shown below. See how fat China & India will be and how skinny Australia will be?
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[em]"Out of every 100 persons added to the population in the coming decade, 97 will live in developing countries." [/em]Hania Zlotnik, 2005
I HOPE IM STILL ALIVE IN 2300
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[a href="vny!://www.redcolony.com/features.php?name=missionstatement"] Mars colony[/a], anyone?
I'll take the moon. So when the world powers get angry at each other and start nuking themselves, I can sit back in my recliner and eat some popcorn.
LOL. The Earth will just be starting to recover from us in 2300. We will be long gone.
WWIV should start right about then.
tenkani wrote:
LOL. The Earth will just be starting to recover from us in 2300. We will be long gone.[/DIV]
I'll find the magic pill or something. The government keeps saying my generation won't retire til 70 or 80 I figure I got another 20 years after that which would be 80 years from now. 2086. Who knows what kind of stuff we've created by then, although I doubt it will come from america because my generation is lazy.
Does anyone really have a magic ball? But, even without on, it doesn't take a scientist to look at the world and see the irreversible damage that was done hundreds of years ago, never mind modern day. If its not one thing, its another.
We've got a climatological tipping point in roughly 10 years. We're too short-sighted to do anything significant in that span. In 50 to 100 years climate change will have caused major disasters, draughts and famine across the globe, leading to uncontrolled rioting and small-scale wars that soon blossom into a global war. No one really knows who launched the first nuclear weapon, but once airborne, itchy fingers in Russia, the U.S, China and the Middle East join the fray. The Earth is left a smoking ruin, and then nuclear winter sets in, immediately reversing the global warming trend. Unfortunately, we aren't around to enjoy our new winter wonderland.
darn, I was about to get my skates sharpened.
Sportsdude wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]I'll take the moon. So when the world powers get angry at each other and start nuking themselves, I can sit back in my recliner and eat some popcorn.[/div]
Er... it won't quite work like that. Without the earth, your life on the moon will become extremely unpleasant very quickly.
Like a trailer becoming unhitched at 17,000 miles per hour.
Sweet, I like road trips!
Oh, the Earth will still be around. It's just going to look strikingly similar to the Moon! (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/3.gif)
So..why are we at work today?
Old habits die hard!
LOL. I'm at work but not working. I don't do Mondays or Fridays if I can possibly help it. Not good for the mental health.
Hey, by the time this planet REALLY goes downhill I'll be elderly and since I don't plan to have any kids...well, it's a lot easier to take it all in stride.
Hey, by the time this planet REALLY goes downhill I'll be elderly and since I don't plan to have any kids...well, it's a lot easier to take it all in stride.[/DIV]
Yeah, this is where my stomach gets upset. I think of the challenges my son will have to go through in a lifetime and I shudder!
Sportsdude wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Sweet, I like road trips![/div]
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"Yeah, this is where my stomach gets upset. I think of the challenges my son will have to go through in a lifetime and I shudder!"
Um...you might want to encourage him to join the space program.
I think he will change physics all together! Who says you need water for life to occur? What a joke! so limited.
I read somewhere that they can already teleport molecules from one peachtree dish to an other. So human teleportation may not be that far behind.
Bah!
They will accidentaly teleport open a portal to the 6th ring of hell. Gozamar the Flaymonger will push its oily, corpulent bulk through and usher in a new age of terror and carnage. So it was written, so shall it come to pass :(
We are alive today! I am going [img alt="" src="vny!://www.motleycrow.com/ImageHost/blackmetal.gif"] to enjoy it!
thanks for all the fish!