Comments on: Will India’s population rise to 2 billion?

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:24:58 +0000

Dear Hit,

And so goes the species.

Deborah

By: TheHit Lerman

TheHit Lerman — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:18:33 +0000

Hi All,
If India’s population reaches 2 billion, I would imagine the india’s landmass would not be able to sustain the weight on indians, thereby spliting off from himalayas and start to sink into the great indian ocean. This may cause Tsunami on either sides of Indian ocean. This can have a global impact. Other possibility, As population approaches 1.5 billion and surges at night over night due to busy indians at work, there would serious shortage of food and water. The whole massive population exodus will take place from south to north asia, just like a wilder beast buffalo migration in africa. Just a imaginary thought.

Thanks,
TheHit Lerman

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:27:48 +0000

Dave, I simply have faith in the human species. Humanity has the technology now to look fairly closely at nearly everywhere at once on our planet. We are connected. I just believe that knowledge of each other and ourselves is power … and that human intelligence will have a (slight) edge over human ignorance.

By: india s population

india s population — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:47:31 +0000

[...] answered questions about India??s population online last week. He pointed out that India??s …http://blogs.earthsky.org/deborahbyrd/bizarre/102197/will-indias-population-rise-to-2-billion/’35% of India’s population is under 15!’… it India’s family planning programme, says the Professor [...]

By: World Population

World Population — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:44:20 +0000

There have alwys been rich and poor people alike, now there is a middle class.

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By: Dave Gardner

Dave Gardner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:58:33 +0000

Deborah, it’s great to be optimistic, but dangerous to be complacent. What do you think about the many countries today that are subsidizing reproduction in order to reverse their declining birthrates? What if more and more nations jump onto this bandwagon in their quest for ever-increasing GDP?

By: Indians know how to multiply and divide better than anyone else : It’s Indiatime

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:38:17 +0000

[...] are so adept the art of multiplication that some have predicted we will reach the magic number of 2 billion in our own lifetimes. A hundred years ago, India (including today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh) [...]

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:38:46 +0000

Ralph, I agree that the Pope and Catholic Church generally need to come into reality on the subject of birth control. I mean, what are they thinking?

But I don’t believe - not for one second - that the end is near. Population rates are already falling in many countries, and smart caring people everywhere are working hard to make the future a better place to be.

Deborah

By: Ralph Smith

Ralph Smith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:58:09 +0000

Too bad the Pope still clings to the old “Go forth and multiply” adage that will eventually destroy the planet. The end has taken on a synergystic effect that moves closer each day. Too bad we will reproduce ourselves to oblivion and the religious factions are too stupid to realize or care about it.

By: sglasson

sglasson — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:38:26 +0000

Wow, big change of topics from population to war. I suppose they are intertwined, though. This makes me think of a quote from one of my favorite scientists:

“I don’t know what kind of weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”-Albert Einstein

I can only hope that mankind has more sense than that, and we don’t destroy ourselves. I really hope that this quote from one of the greatest minds in human history can work as a warning, and not a prediction. This brings on the highly political debates about Bush’s “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, which apparently weren’t there. Also on one’s mind is the current possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons. I know there are many people who don’t like Bush or anything he does but I don’t think anyone can argue that something has to be done to prevent a nuclear war. There’s not really a clear cut line as to who should or should not have nuclear weapons (if anyone at all!) or who would be dangerous and likely to use them for a bad cause. I’m sure there are many people who disagree with the U.S. having nuclear weapons (probably everyone Bush is trying to keep from having them), and some of those people might think that if the U.S. can have them, anyone should be allowed, otherwise it’s hypocritical. To that I would say yes, it seems like a double-standard, but I can’t imagine what life would be like now had Hitler and his Nazi regime had nuclear weapons (considering Einstein was from Germany, as he immigrated to the U.S. after denouncing his German citizenship for political reasons in 1933, I think this possibility was luckily escaped due to Einstein’s moral values). The world may be a better place without any nuclear weapons, but countries have them so we have to deal with this situation.

On the main topic of population growth, I think that George Martíne and Carl Haub’s studies on the subject and ideas of urbanization slowing population growth are valid and give us hope for the future. It doesn’t mean urbanizing the world will solve everything without our help, but it’s a step in the right direction. We as a species have to care for ourselves and our children of the future by realizing the problems of population growth and take the necessary precautions of educating people on sexuality and reproduction and we have to be responsible for our actions and their affects on the environment.