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Planet could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.

To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110220/ts_afp/scienceuspopulationfood

genuine concern or fear mongering? iirc we have been hearing about this for decades. and, iirc, 2020 was milestone....now its 2050.....

are these people like those who claim the end of days is at hand?
 
Earth Day Predictions, 1970

"We have about five more years at the outside to do something."
- Kenneth Watt, ecologist

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."
- George Wald, Harvard Biologist

"We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation."
- Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
 
Yurt said:
Planet could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.

To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110220/ts_afp/scienceuspopulationfood

genuine concern or fear mongering? iirc we have been hearing about this for decades. and, iirc, 2020 was milestone....now its 2050.....

are these people like those who claim the end of days is at hand?
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we are already seeing food prices rising, malthus will win yet
 
Yurt said:
To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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it would seem logical that this could not be true......is he assuming that those who starve to death will continue to reproduce?....
 
Schadenfreude said:
we are already seeing food prices rising, malthus will win yet
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I will have to look for the guardian article when I have more time, but if I recall correctly, the US currently uses about 1/4 of its grain for ethanol production. That is the enough to feed about 300 million people (again, going off memory from Guardian article).

Another reason food prices are jumping is because the energy it takes to produce and transport the food is going up.
 
Aren't we supposed to have climbed .1 degree C by 2010 already? What happened to the unprecedented trend? How much greater is the 30 year trend NOW( over the interglacial trend we've been experiencing for over 10K years)?

Questions the warmers are afraid to even ask themselves!
 
tinfoil said:
Aren't we supposed to have climbed .1 degree C by 2010 already? What happened to the unprecedented trend? How much greater is the 30 year trend NOW( over the interglacial trend we've been experiencing for over 10K years)?

Questions the warmers are afraid to even ask themselves!
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I think the technical term for your condition is "warming on the brain."
 
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