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RE: Something really scary on Halloween - 11/1/2011 9:24:31 AM

Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

I clicked your link, it still doesn't support your numbers, especially in regard to sex ratio and birth rate. For example, in the countries where sex selection is widely practiced (with the exception of China) the birth rate is closer to 4-8 per woman.
I don't disagree though, I think the population will get close to 10 Billion and then drop dramatically. I just think there is a lot of misery and starvation tied up in that dramatic drop. I find the thought of all that misery unbearable, you obviously don't. Heartless bitch is right.

I find the systematic slaughter of baby girls based on false claims and the devaluation of their gender unbearable.

But enjoy your happy gynocide dance.

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RE: Something really scary on Halloween - 11/1/2011 10:38:39 AM

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I read your link, and I was struck by this:

"Sometime in this century, the world’s population will begin to decline. (The United Nations Population Division says that, worldwide, we could achieve below-replacement fertility by 2030.) At a certain point, the decline will become rapid. We may even reach what demographers call population free-fall in our lifetimes."

So, went and looked at the website for the UN Population Division. Here is what it really says:

3 Billion: 20 October 1959 4 Billion: 27 June 1974 5 Billion: 21 January 1987 6 Billion: 5 December 1998 7 Billion: 31 October 2011 8 Billion: 15 June 2025 9 Billion: 18 February 2043 10 Billion: 18 June 2083 These dates are derived from the annual series of world population estimates obtained by interpolating the results of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects by assuming exponential growth within each year. Because the estimated dates depend on the population estimates and projections used to derive them and those estimates and projections change from one Revision to another, they constitute the best approximations at any given time.

Don't get me wrong, LW. I like your theory better, because I think a 10Billion population is unsustainable. I am just not seeing anything to back them up. But thanks for the links.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

here's another link that might explain it better for you

http://ironlight.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/demographic-winter/

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RE: Something really scary on Halloween - 11/1/2011 10:40:34 AM

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I have no idea where you got your accusation of gynocide, which I guess is directed at me. Certainly not from anything I said or posted. You are a delusional bitch as well as a heartless one, apparently.

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

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I find the systematic slaughter of baby girls based on false claims and the devaluation of their gender unbearable.

But enjoy your happy gynocide dance.

< Message edited by Iamsemisweet -- 11/1/2011 10:41:30 AM >

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