"Despite a growth burst that more than doubled the global human population over the past 50 years, a study released today predicts it will peak at 9 billion by the year 2070 and then begin to decline."
What do ya' think? Will we last long enough to stablize our population?
posted on August 2, 2001 05:26:09 AM
I think humans will be around. But the world will be very different than it is now - especially if the rest of the world doesn't put its foot down and stop the US from using the planet as its garbage dump.
posted on August 2, 2001 07:36:01 AM
With the predictons of rising sea levels coming true, there won't be anyplace for nine billion people to stand by 2070.
posted on August 2, 2001 09:43:36 AM"... but it does have to be a global effort."
Precisely. That was the idea behind the Kyoto Treaty. A start. Which is why Bush's assertion that corporate polluter's profits are more important than a clean, healthy environment is ludicrious!
posted on August 2, 2001 10:05:36 AM
There isn't any other country in the world aside from Rumania which ratified the Kyoto treaty. Let them lead the way and show they're serious instead of offering up anti-American rhetoric. Since it was a unanimous bipartisan rejection of the treaty and during Clinton's tenure at that, to lay the blame at Bush's feet is simply agenda driven. The Kyoto treaty is fatally flawed. We'd be complete morons to ratify it and I'm glad we're not going to. Naturally Europe has no intentions of ratifying it either because they're not stupid and their efforts to blame the ugly Americans for all the world's evil are transparently obvious.
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