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Mike Bradberry
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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 06:37 am, by: Mike Bradberry (Halflife)

So, let's encourage people to have more babies. That should fix it.

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 08:56 am, by: Gary Poloskei (Mikrucio)

miiiike......

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 11:34 am, by: Ali Saeed (Ali)

hahhaa

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 12:51 pm, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

The world is becoming too populated.

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 01:26 pm, by: Gary Poloskei (Mikrucio)

Got some trivia for you guys.

Since Adam and Eve a good estimate says there has been around 6000 years, in that time there has been around 20 billion people alive up till this day.

If we reserved HALF the world for food stocks (crops and the like) there is still enough room for a family of 4 per ACRE of land.

That means if 20 billion people were alive today (there is only 6 billion) we could each have 1 acre of land in between the next house.

So the world really isn't that cramped at all. Its just bad use of the geography that we have.

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 03:14 pm, by: Mike Bradberry (Halflife)

Gary, I notice how you use the work 'we' as in your last paragraph.
That's great for humans isn't it?

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 04:57 pm, by: James Wilson (Ser493)

Mike you are a weird cat....

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 06:51 pm, by: Mike Bradberry (Halflife)

James, I accept. Better than being a sheep.

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Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 06:10 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

Gary Poloskei wrote on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 01:26 pm:
Since Adam and Eve a good estimate says there has been around 6000 years, in that time there has been around 20 billion people alive up till this day.

Adam and Eve? I hope you are joking?

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Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 06:19 am, by: Joshua Rao (Soaren1)

Gary i hope your willing to live in the middle of Australia on your acre while I have my acre next to the beach

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Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 10:45 am, by: Anthony Matthews (Gajet)

Gary Poloskei wrote on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 01:26 pm:
If we reserved HALF the world for food stocks (crops and the like) there is still enough room for a family of 4 per ACRE of land.

Ummm....except that more than half of the world either don't have the correct climate/soil/terrain/water supply to be reserved for food production....

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Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 05:52 pm, by: Ben Kelly (Ace)

yeah well gary we might need a few trees too, just for oxygen production and stuff like that. there are probably just a few other species that we might like to keep around too. the earths population is nearing 7billion and it is estimated that homo sapiens emerged around 500 000 years ago, and homo sapiens sapiens around 100 000 years ago. There was also a theorised extinction event which reduced the human population to about 10%, around 75 000 years ago - the super volcanic eruption at lake toba in north sumatra. while there *may* be room for 20 billion with some lifestyle modifications (prolly not as many soarers for instance), i think its more the trend of population growth that is the worry.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 06:26 pm, by: Ali Saeed (Ali)

just make bulk 1KM tall buildings for everyone to live in.

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Monday, July 19, 2010 - 06:04 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

Most population models predict population will level off and/or crash in the next 40-70 years. What causes the possible "crash" is the worry.

Honestly though, 95% of Australia is basically a desert - always makes me laugh looking at the farmers winging about the "drought" they are having - no, thats what farming a desert is like people! Thats what you get for living on Tatooine I guess! Need more evaporators!

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Monday, July 19, 2010 - 07:42 am, by: Mike Beck (Gold_40gt)

Matthew Sharpe wrote on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 06:04 am:
95% of Australia is basically a desert - always makes me laugh looking at the farmers winging about the "drought" they are having - no, thats what farming a desert is like people! Thats what you get for living on Tatooine I guess! Need more evaporators!