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Originally Posted by jms62
And now they are saying babies born today could live to 120 or longer. Does anyone ever think about the unintended consequences of this? There isn't enough resources, food, water, jobs to support the current inhabitants of this rock we live on. Think how bad it will be if people start living longer and longer? As I told my friend , the way things are I'm happy that I am mid-way into the far turn
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yeah, i know of life insurance policies that don't mature til age 120-used to be 100. more and more are living past age 100.
thankfully we are having less kids here, and hopefully eventually less all over (hey, catholic church, quit with the preaching against birth control-be fruitful and multiply can only go so far).
current population growth was .7% when i last looked-without immigration, we'd have negative growth.
but yeah, we don't have infinite resources. last i heard we still just have the one planet.
The population of the world is 7.28 billion people as of January 2015.
•During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.
•In 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.
•Because of declining growth rates, it will now take over 200 years to double again.
it better not double again. a study i read about not long ago said the max capacity for earth is 10 billion.