Comment Did people forget about the boomers? (Score 1) 461
The baby boomers that is? The sheer number of them that will be kicking the bucket in the next 10-20 years will actually drop our population. If anyone ever bothered to check out the birth rate in the world they'd see births being lower. Fewer and fewer families are having more than 2 kids, women are focusing on careers instead of families, and again the boomers are about to die. Sure we'll hit 7billion, but in 20 years don't look shocked when we're back down to 4-5billion.
Remember as well that China has a one child only policy. So that 1 billion population will be almost halved in 20 years as well. If you check, all the first world countries populations are actually going to decline. It's the 3rd world populations that are still having 3+ kids per family. But then again they still have a lot of problems medically than we do in first world countries. I'm not worried about the world population at all. The world will still be around and those that survive even the most catastrophic global collapse will re-up the population to stable levels. I just think all the doomsayers need to off themselves if they really think it'll be that bad.