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Old Posted Aug 16, 2016, 6:02 PM
James Gablan James Gablan is offline
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Much of the global population problem has already been solved. Globally births peaked in the late 1980's. Globally the fertility rate is now just a little over the replacement rate and is still falling. The population continues to grow because the people in their prime dying years (the elderly) did most of their dying in the early 20th century when they were young. The baby boomers and subsequent generations delayed their prime dying years until they were actually elderly. This has caused a one time blip in the population growth rates as births remained high but stable for the past 30 years while the number of deaths actually decreased, despite the rising population. This trend however, cannot go on forever because at the end of the day we are all mortal. Over the next couple of decades the number of people dying every year is going to increase dramatically putting the breaks on population growth. it seems likely that population growth will come to a stop sometime around the 2060's.

Water, unlike oil, is not destroyed in the process of using it. If water become expensive people will simply clean and reuse it. There will be no water wars.
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