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Date: 2022-11-15
8 billion
Here is a link to a live world population clock:
www.worldometers.info/…
We just reached 8 billion.
Scroll down, and look at the population in 1955:
1955 2,773,019,936
That is the year I was born.
In those days, the world did not seem empty. Plenty of people were all over the world. Plenty of people in Missouri, and in Kansas, the places where I grew up.
Who said we needed another 5 plus billion?
Who made that decision?
When I was a teenager, about 1970, I read that there was going to be a serious problem, with overpopulation. I got a vasectomy, in 1977, while I was still a virgin. I have zero children.
A vasectomy takes about ten minutes.
I have lots and lots of nieces and nephews. I can call my sister-in-law, and she will bring her daughters over. They are 5 and 2 years old. And, my neighbors, in the apartment next door, have two small children. I hear them running, back and forth, much of the day. And they are very friendly, when I see them outside. They give me a high five. I have plenty of exposure to children.
Go back to the worldometers site, and scroll back up, and watch the live population change for Japan. About every two minutes, the population of Japan goes down by one. Do you think they are stupid, in Japan? Do you think they are miserable? I am saying, any country, any region, that would simply use enough contraception, that their population would actually go down, they would not become miserable, because of that.
Every time I hear about someone stating the ideal human population, that would be easily sustainable, they say, one or two billion.
Sustainable = one or two billion.
The growth of our numbers is slowing down, but not slowing down, fast enough. When will we get to zero growth, and start going back, towards two billion? When?
Well, I know we all have other things on our minds.
But, this is one of my pet topics, and, since we just reached 8 billion, I thought it might be a good time, to write up a nice Daily Kos diary about it.
Hugs.
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