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<blockquote data-quote="Johnnyvee" data-source="post: 1272740" data-attributes="member: 13195">RE: Prediction for the 20sI have to disagree that the planet can take as many as 20 billion humans. There are indications that 8 billion are way too many also. Remember that prior to civilization, there where probably never a population greater than one million (including all species of hominids) on the planet. This has now ballooned out to the absurd number we see today. This has happened at such an insane pace that you would expect to see some delay in a potential backlash. Possible global warming, general pollution, reduced biodiversity, depletion of resources, poor human health due to an increasingly novel diet. (i.e. modern agriculture) We might need less space for agriculture, but that`s due to crappier and crappier food production, and the ensuing obesity and autoimmune epidemic etc. Grassfed meat production can be a saviour here, but not with 8 billion people on the planet. I`m not pushing some &quot;Gaia-mother nature will strike back&quot; crap here. I just think there will be major consequences of this overcrowding. And China and India are the biggest problems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Johnnyvee, post: 1272740, member: 13195"] [b]RE: Prediction for the 20s[/b] I have to disagree that the planet can take as many as 20 billion humans. There are indications that 8 billion are way too many also. Remember that prior to civilization, there where probably never a population greater than one million (including all species of hominids) on the planet. This has now ballooned out to the absurd number we see today. This has happened at such an insane pace that you would expect to see some delay in a potential backlash. Possible global warming, general pollution, reduced biodiversity, depletion of resources, poor human health due to an increasingly novel diet. (i.e. modern agriculture) We might need less space for agriculture, but that`s due to crappier and crappier food production, and the ensuing obesity and autoimmune epidemic etc. Grassfed meat production can be a saviour here, but not with 8 billion people on the planet. I`m not pushing some "Gaia-mother nature will strike back" crap here. I just think there will be major consequences of this overcrowding. And China and India are the biggest problems. [/QUOTE]

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