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Well, we did just find out in this thread that 1% of us are psychopaths...You're right.....I'm off to poison the neighbours right now! Thanks for the incentive.
Well, we did just find out in this thread that 1% of us are psychopaths...You're right.....I'm off to poison the neighbours right now! Thanks for the incentive.
Well, we did just find out in this thread that 1% of us are psychopaths...
There was a guy named Gregory Pincus, along with some colleagues that did their part...Probably more than anyone so far .A lot of us complain about population increase, but how many actually do something about it in their own lives?
A lot of us complain about population increase, but how many actually do something about it in their own lives?
In a year. This is an annual statistic. 1 out of 100 will die in the next year.I'm confused...1 out of every 100 people won't live to see their next meal?
A lot of us complain about population increase, but how many actually do something about it in their own lives?
In a year. This is an annual statistic. 1 out of 100 will die in the next year.
58,000,000 (58 million) people in the world die each year. Works out to about .75% not 1% which would 1 in 100. Probably all are rounded up for stats.
Saw an interesting "fact" that if every person on earth stood shoulder to shoulder, they would all fit within the Los Angeles basin. That's hard to imagine.
The primary engine of the novel's story is overpopulation and its projected consequences.[2] The title refers to an early twentieth-century claim that the world's population could fit onto the Isle of Wight—which has an area of 381 square kilometres (147 sq mi)—if they were all standing upright. Brunner remarked that the growing world population now required a larger island; the 3.5 billion people living in 1968 could stand together on the Isle of Man [area 572 square kilometres (221 sq mi)], while the 7 billion people who he (correctly) projected would be alive in 2010 would need to stand on Zanzibar [area 1,554 square kilometres (600 sq mi)].[4] Throughout the book, the image of the entire human race standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a small island is a metaphor for a crowded world.
This triggered a memory to the late 60's sci-fi novel "Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner -
Of course, we anthropomorphize this like crazy and imagine the birds are singing to us.
Yeah, when in reality they're likely yelling curse laden abuse at competitors, or trying to chat up a potential mate.
Hans Rosling gave one of the best perspectives on global population growth- it's worth viewing, if you haven't already.
Well, the birds are singing to each other. We just get to listen in. I always thought it was amazing that most bird songs are very pleasant to human ears. Not all though!mes is watching the little creatures in the park fight it out for survival. You know the birds eating the insects, the foxes eating the birds, ... and so on. Of course, we anthropomorphize this like crazy and imagine the birds are singing to us. I do this too. Oh well.
Well then I certainly have a lot more than my fair share of land... Of course a lot of folks would say Texas land isn't habitable....
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell!
26 live less than 14 years
66 died between 15 - 64 years of age
8 are over 65 years old.
This data seems suspect.
Global life expectancy according to this web site (which references UN figures) is above 70:
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
That would mean 50 make it past 70, not 8 making it past 65.
With that glaring of an error, I'm not inclined to pay attention to the other cited figures.
(Or maybe I've misunderstood.)