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Bernie Sanders

tularetom

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1. The world's population is projected to reach 11 billion by 2100

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:22 PM

Jul 2015

I don't think a transition away from fossil fuels is going to do it. Other resources are going to be depleted as well.

Can the world sustain 11 billion hunter-gatherers? Subsistence farmers?

I think we need a sign on the earth like the ones they post in elevators:

And surely somebody far smarter than me has calculated just what that number might be.

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Bernie Sanders:Scientists say our planet could be 5 to 10 degrees warmer by the end of.. [View all] Playinghardball Jul 2015 OP

The world's population is projected to reach 11 billion by 2100 tularetom Jul 2015 #1

People have tried to come up with a number. They keep being wrong. jeff47 Jul 2015 #2

If the world is 5-10 degrees warmer by the end of the century truebluegreen Jul 2015 #3

I guess that's really the question isn't it tularetom Jul 2015 #4

You will have to work to 159 because Social Security won't be there for you. Enthusiast Jul 2015 #6

I wouldn't worry about the population Hydra Jul 2015 #5

K&R raouldukelives Jul 2015 #7